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Old 12-30-2014, 02:04 PM   #5
Lamplighter
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Originally Posted by Griff View Post
New York takes the wrong approach to ‘fracking’

...States such as Colorado have developed rules with sensitivity both to industry and to environmental concerns.
The Obama administration is developing its own, national fracking rules, too.
That’s the model to follow — not New York’s.
Hmmmm..... Did the Washington Post forget to mention ...

from here
Colorado: yellow dots = violatlons
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green lines = water sheds
lavender = shale plays
tan areas = shale basins
orange dots = horizontal wells

Pennsylvania: yellow dots = violations
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green lines = water sheds
lavender area = EIA shale play
purple dots = permits

Maybe Kentucky doesn't have problems ... yet, but government prevention of coal ash problems hasn't set a good example.
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