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Justice wanted

(2,657 posts) Fri Mar 9, 2012, 11:42 PM Mar 2012

Ohio stiffens regulations after concluding that fracking caused earthquakes

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/09/ohio-stiffens-regulations-after-concluding-that-fracking-caused-earthquakes/

Ohio state regulators announced tough new regulations on Friday after concluding that the injection of wastewater underground as part of the controversial gas-drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” had almost certainly caused a dozen earthquakes near one well.

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Hope PA takes notice.

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Didn't PA just try to get something passed woodsprite Mar 2012 #1

I don't see it lasting with the Gov. Corbett and the Repugs (Teabaggers) we have running the state. Justice wanted Mar 2012 #2

Agreed. Corbett is bought and paid for. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #4

North Carolina needs to take notice, too. WorseBeforeBetter Mar 2012 #3

woodsprite

(12,582 posts)

1. Didn't PA just try to get something passed

Reply to Justice wanted (Original post)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 11:55 PM

Mar 2012

That gutted any research that would have been done
regarding fracking and effects of it.

Justice wanted

(2,657 posts)

2. I don't see it lasting with the Gov. Corbett and the Repugs (Teabaggers) we have running the state.

Reply to woodsprite (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 12:26 AM

Mar 2012

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

4. Agreed. Corbett is bought and paid for.

Reply to Justice wanted (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 11:59 AM

Mar 2012

WorseBeforeBetter

(11,441 posts)

3. North Carolina needs to take notice, too.

Reply to Justice wanted (Original post)

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 12:47 AM

Mar 2012

Republicans are in charge and it's gotten really ugly. Teabaggers were defeated in the contentious Wake County school board race; now we're battling fracking and the same-sex marriage amendment (among other things...).

Vote NO to Amendment One on May 8th!:

http://gay.americablog.com/2012/03/momentum-in-north-carolina-to-defeat.html

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