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upstatecajun Donating Member (511 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-11 12:16 PM
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Coming to a public or state park near you Ohio? Living In The Middle Of A 'Gasland'
Edited on Sun Mar-20-11 12:20 PM by upstatecajun
June 10, 2010 Josh Fox lives in the Upper Delaware River Basin, on the border straddling Pennsylvania and New York State. In May 2008, he received a letter from a natural gas mining company. The company wanted to lease 19.5 acres of land from Fox — and would pay him $100,000 to do so.

" 'We might not even drill,' " he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. " 'We don't even know if there's gas here. It's going to be a fire hydrant in the middle of a field — very little impact to your land. You won't hardly know we're

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127593937


Our Gov. looks to open public lands in Ohio for drilling.....







http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Liberal-Ohioan/195130570504421

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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-11 01:11 PM
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1. Our new republican governor here in PA is a tool of the gas and energy companies...
they are drilling everywhere, paying NO taxes, and dumping waste all over our state...while cutting funds to all our schools from K through the state universities (Over 50% funding cuts). You ain't seen nothin' yet!


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