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Squirrel alert: shale drilling rules up for comment

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Michael Hickins said: If we really allow this, 5 years from now people will rightly wonder what the eff we were thinking.

Marcellus shale is a potential new source for natural gas, and requires the shale to be fractured, or split, with large amounts of water, raising concerns that groundwater supplies and wells could be affected.

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