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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Sep 2, 2014, 03:36 PM Sep 2014

The evidence is in, so ban fracking

LIZ KRUEGER

If anyone in New York was still buying the utopian vision being sold by the oil and gas industry regarding fracking — free energy! new jobs! no risk! — a flood of recent news should end the delusion once and for all.

Consider fresh reports about the experience of Finleyville, Pa., where residents were promised easy money with no headaches back in 2008.

But once the trucks and heavy machinery came in and the fracking began, everything changed. Families found their homes unlivable. Houses vibrated and were filled with continuous noise. Air quality warnings and gas odors forced some to flee.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/evidence-ban-fracking-article-1.1921907

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