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Report Exposes Social Costs of Fracking on Rural America
2013-09-24 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Whats it like living in a small town thats gone from rust belt farmland to fracking boomtown? First, residents often say, theres the traffic. Communities have been unexpectedly flooded with heavy tractor trailers that locals say turn 10 minute commutes into hour-long ordeals, choke back roads and decimate pavement so badly that in some areas, drilling companies are barred from entering until they agree to pay for road repairs. The traffic here is horrendous, Towanda, PA, resident Joe Benjamin...
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