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		<title>PA&#8217;s Department of Environmental Prevarication does it again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Sun Gazette, 3/17:
WATERVILLE &#8211; A substance used in the natural gas drilling process is discoloring and distorting the texture of spring water running off a Cummings Township sidehill.
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The mysterious substance was seen flowing down the slope, under the road and into Pine Creek, said Daniel T. Spadoni, spokesman for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/pas-department-of-environmental-prevarication-does-it-again/</link>
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		<title>PA landowners form pipeline information group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Independent Weekender reports:
Landowners’ pipeline group forms 
Staff Report
Published: March 17, 2010
A group of Susquehanna and Wyoming County landowners concerned about  natural gas pipeline easements has formed, and is willing to share  information with other landowners to form their own neighborhood groups  or for others to join them.
The Lemon Township Pipeline Group [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/in-pa-landowners-form-pipeline-information-group/</link>
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		<title>Wait a minute, Chemung CoC: How is this NOT an advocacy session?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quoting Chamber president Kevin Keeley, The Star Gazette reports:
&#8220;This is an information session, not an advocacy session. It&#8217;s not a  hearing, not a debate,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s simply an opportunity for the  chamber constituency, which is the business and professional community,  to learn more about some fundamental facets of the gas drilling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/wait-a-minute-chemung-coc-how-is-this-not-an-advocacy-session/</link>
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		<title>Chemung County Chamber of Commerce excluding public from forum &#8211; but the gas industry reps can say as much as they want</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Citizens for Healthy Communities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  March 17, 2010

 
March 19th Chemung Economic Forum Comes Under Fire
Chemung County Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s March 19th Economic Forum on natural gas drilling in the Southern Tier, to be moderated by Chemung County Executive Thomas Santulli, is being criticized for prohibiting the public and including presentations dominated by the gas industry and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/chemung-county-chamber-of-commerce-excluding-public-from-forum-but-the-gas-industry-reps-can-say-as-much-as-they-want/</link>
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		<title>25% incidence of childhood asthma in North Texas&#8230; wonder why?</title>
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From the Star-Telegram, January 14, 2010:
In D-FW, &#8217;sobering&#8217; asthma numbers
Look at a third-grade class or a youth soccer game, and start  counting.
&#8220;One, two, three, asthma; one, two, three, asthma,&#8221;  said Larry Tubb, senior vice president for system planning at Cook  Children’s Health Care System. &#8220;That’s sobering.&#8221;
It represents a  growing health problem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/25-incidence-of-childhood-asthma-in-north-texas-wonder-why/</link>
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		<title>Natural gas suppliers oppose EPA&#8217;s greenhouse gas regulations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[.
Now, if natural gas is such a &#8220;clean&#8221; fuel, why d&#8217;ya suppose they&#8217;d do that?
From the newsletter of the American Petroleum Institute:
API backs resolution to block EPA from regulating carbon emissions
The American Petroleum Institute was among the oil and natural gas groups that signed a letter expressing support of Sen. Lisa Murkowski&#8217;s, R-Alaska, resolution against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/natural-gas-suppliers-oppose-epas-greenhouse-gas-regulations/</link>
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		<title>Eyewitness: &#8220;I cannot begin to describe how devastating it is to witness the wholesale destruction of this once strikingly beautiful state by natural gas firms from both the United States and Canada&#8221;</title>
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Letter to Edmonton Journal: &#8220;Letting gas companies have their way has devastating results&#8221; 
Edmonton Journal
March 15, 2010
Re: &#8220;Natural gas and its &#8216;Drill, baby, drill&#8217; conundrum,&#8221; The Journal, March 8.
I am a central Pennsylvania native who lives in the midst of the Marcellus shale region. I cannot begin to describe how devastating it is to witness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/eyewitness-i-cannot-begin-to-describe-how-devastating-it-is-to-witness-the-wholesale-destruction-of-this-once-strikingly-beautiful-state-by-natural-gas-firms-from-both-the-united-states-and-canada/</link>
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		<title>Knew it was coming, here it is:&#8221;Domestic Access&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month the American Petroleum Institute announced it was hiring a &#8220;grassroots&#8221; organizer (actually, it&#8217;s a stretch to call anything The Nature Conservancy does &#8220;grassroots&#8221; &#8211; but that&#8217;s a slightly different story, which we&#8217;ll come back to below).
Grass-Roots Organizer Jumps From Nature Conservancy to API
By ANNE C. MULKERN of Greenwire &#8211; February 26, 2010  nytimes.com
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/we-knew-it-was-coming-and-here-it-is-domestic-access/</link>
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		<title>Pocket change, or, one clue DEP* doesn&#8217;t actually care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[*Substitute your state environmental regulating agency
Guest post by Lynn Senick:
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On Feb. 2, DEP fined Talisman Energy $3,500 for violations at its “Cease” well pad in Troy Township discovered during inspections in 2009.
A February 2009 inspection revealed that the company had not publicly posted the permit number and other required information at the entrance of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/pocket-change-or-how-we-know-dep-doesnt-actually-care/</link>
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		<title>Pipelines &amp; eminent domain: Twenty years later, the tragedy persists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Excerpt from The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, NY on the pipeline explosion in North Blenheim, NY, twenty years ago on March 13, 1990:


 
Effects of deadly blast still felt
EDWARD MUNGER JR
Earth scarred by the massive explosion that rocked this rural Schoharie County town 20 years ago has since healed and buildings reduced to smoldering rubble have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/pipelines-eminent-domain-twenty-years-later-the-tragedy-persists/</link>
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		<title>Brian Brock comments on draft SGEIS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TO:
Attn: dSGEIS Comments
Bureau of Oil &#38; Gas Regulation
NYSDEC Division of Mineral Resources
625 Broadway, Third Floor
Albany NY 12233-6500
dmnsgeis@gw.dec.state.ny.us
FROM:
Brian Brock, retired geologist
Franklin NY
DATE:
30 December 2009
RE:    CONSIDERATIONS  FOR  REVISIONS  TO  dSGEIS
Aquifer Depths, Database of BOGR states that depths to the base of aquifer is so poorly known that they need to set a default value of 850 feet.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/brian-brock-comments-on-draft-sgeis/</link>
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		<title>Dr Ron Bishop: Is hydraulic fracturing safe?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[.

Is Hydraulic Hydrofracing Safe? from Fight The Frack on Vimeo.
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		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/is-hydraulic-fracturing-safe/</link>
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		<title>Dr Ron Bishop&#8217;s comments on draft Supplemental GEIS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Ronald E. Bishop
Cooperstown, NY
December 30, 2009
Attention:  dSGEIS Comments
Bureau of Oil and Gas Regulation
NYSDEC Division of Mineral Resources
625 Broadway, Third Floor
Albany, NY  12233-6500
To Whom It May Concern,
Please accept my comments regarding the Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement for the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program:  Well Permit Issuance for Horizontal Drilling and High-Volume [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/dr-ron-bishops-comments-on-draft-supplemental-geis/</link>
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		<title>Who benefits? And who decides?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Citizens Group Worried About Water Pollution
&#8220;Luzerne County Citizens for Clean Water is starting out small . . . but is going to grow, said Dr. Tom Jiunta of Lehman Township&#8230; Area residents don&#8217;t realize that the number of people who will benefit from Marcellus Shale drilling in the region is small compared to those who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/who-benefits-and-who-decides/</link>
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		<title>Financial Times: The True Cost of Shale Gas Production</title>
		<description><![CDATA[.
At ft.com John Dizard writes in part:


The true cost of shale gas production
Published: March 7 2010 09:45 &#124; Last updated: March 7 2010 09:45
I try not to get into arguments over other people&#8217;s religious convictions. Even if you win your point, you make an enemy. That&#8217;s been a conventional understanding since the Thirty Years War. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://un-naturalgas.org/weblog/2010/03/financial-times-the-true-cost-of-shale-gas-production/</link>
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