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To: dirtboy
Hardly. My In-laws live in North Central PA and I visit often.

Fact: Creeks, streams and water supplies are being sucked dry for use in the fracking.
Fact: Water supplies are being contaminated from run-off and water table seapage.
Fact: Local roads are being destroyed because they weren't built to handle the heavy trucks that are now constantly on the road.
Fact livestock are being condemed because they "might" have consumed run-off from fracking operations. Fact: The gas boom has had a huge effect on the region, most of it very good but the downside cannot be ignored and must be dealt with.

21 posted on 08/03/2010 9:56:43 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Rahm and George at Doe's when the knife came down)
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To: Drill Thrawl
Fact: Creeks, streams and water supplies are being sucked dry for use in the fracking.

And in Pennsylvania, water supplies re-generate quickly.

Fact: Water supplies are being contaminated from run-off and water table seapage.

Please provide documentation other than anti-fracking propaganda.

Fact: Local roads are being destroyed because they weren't built to handle the heavy trucks that are now constantly on the road.

A nice problem to have in a down economy. Those wells will provide far more tax revenues than the road damage caused to drill them.

Fact livestock are being condemed because they "might" have consumed run-off from fracking operations.

There's that 'might' again.

Fact: The gas boom has had a huge effect on the region, most of it very good but the downside cannot be ignored and must be dealt with.

Yeah, but succumbing to left-wing anti-fracking agitprop is not the way to deal with it.

23 posted on 08/03/2010 10:00:25 AM PDT by dirtboy
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Forgot to add this. Here is a link from a local paper in the region. Most stories are positive but you will note there are issues.
http://extras.sungazette.com/naturalgas/


24 posted on 08/03/2010 10:01:22 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Rahm and George at Doe's when the knife came down)
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To: Drill Thrawl
Went thru this yesterday - there is no long term research or study on the effects of NG drilling on our communities and environment. We should study the issue, in fact I think it would boost the NG industry in the long run.

Like you said, many local communities appear to have not fully understood the effects on water supply and infrastructure wear and tear.

25 posted on 08/03/2010 10:02:22 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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