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During Record Drought, Frackers Outcompete Farmers for Water Supplies
2013-06-21 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The impacts of 2013's severe drought are apparent across the nation in forests, on farms and on once snowy peaks. Meanwhile, the oil and gas industry is demanding unprecedented amounts of water for hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking. Fourth-generation Colorado farmer Kent Peppler told the Associated Press (AP) that he is fallowing some of his corn fields this year because he cant afford to irrigate the land for the full growing season, in part because deep-pocketed energy companies...
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