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Environment & Energy

RiverLover

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4. "so does hiring inspectors and the legal battles that follow."

Reply to appal_jack (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 23, 2014, 08:58 PM

Nov 2014

Sounds like the reason they don't do many fracking well site inspections or oversee frack waste removal. At least here in Ohio.

But I get what you're saying & I appreciate the difficulty of effective oversight.

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