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Polluted drinking water attributed to fracking

Residents of a western Pennsylvania community, The Woodlands, say the water was spoiled by drilling deep underground for natural gas. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/03/10/us/ap-us-gas-drilling-water-contamination.html?ref=us In late 2011, the drinking water for about a dozen residents in the Woodlands, a rural community about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, began to change. At first, the families blamed gas drilling, or […]