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investment in your family and future, and a place that is rightfully all your
own.
Now imagine that home, that achievement, taken away with a knock
at your door, seized in the blink of an eye by a company you’ve never
heard of, stolen away in distant boardrooms without your knowledge or
consent, all of it enabled by the government you pay your taxes to. As
Americans this seems unimaginable, and yet, for those whose homes lie in
the cross-hairs of the tar sands oil industry, it’s a bleak reality.
Environmental activists rally for fracking conference
Environmental activists met Saturday at the University of Baltimore
to organize a push for a legislative ban on the natural gas drilling
technique known as hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — casting the
issue as a fight pitting the little guys versus the lobbyists.
Unlike its Neighbors, Maryland Refuses to Rush Headfirst into
Fracking
Maryland doesn’t want to be another Pennsylvania, Ohio or West Virginia
—at least as far as rushing into shale gas development is concerned.
Maryland inches closer to decision time on hydraulic fracturing
As states in the Mid-Atlantic lined up for the jobs and tax revenue
that would come with drilling deep into the shale to release gas, Maryland
held back.
Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and other state officials said no thanks,
wary that poisonous chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing could
contaminate groundwater in rural areas where it matters most.
Potential Fracking In Maryland Sparks Controversy
Does it harm or help? That’s the question surrounding a controversial
natural gas drilling method that could come to western Maryland.
Will There Be Fracking by February?
The Cuomo administration could be headed toward approval of
hydraulic fracturing in New York by the end of February, when a 90-day
extension on a rule making process ends.
Fracking is transforming our energy economy–
but it’s also causing earthquakes