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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>Article
in yesterday’s NY Times …. quotes Chesapeake & Devon …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>December
8, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>Dark Side
of a Natural Gas Boom <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>By
<a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/jad_mouawad/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
title="More Articles by Jad Mouawad">JAD MOUAWAD</a> and <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/clifford_krauss/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
title="More Articles by Clifford Krauss">CLIFFORD KRAUSS</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:black'>DIMOCK, Pa. — Victoria Switzer dreamed of a peaceful
retirement in these Appalachian hills. Instead, she is coping with a big
problem after a nearby <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/info/natural-gas/?inline=nyt-classifier"
title="More articles about natural gas.">natural gas</a> well contaminated her
family’s drinking water with high levels of methane.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'>Through no design of hers, Ms.
Switzer has joined a rising chorus of voices skeptical of the nation’s
latest energy push. “It’s been ‘drill, baby, drill’ out
here,” Ms. Switzer said bitterly. “There is no stopping this
train.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'>Across vast regions of the
country, gas companies are using a technology called hydraulic fracturing to
produce natural gas from previously untapped beds of shale. The push has been
so successful that the country’s potential gas reserves jumped by 35
percent in two years. The new supplies have driven down natural gas prices for
consumers and might help the global environment by allowing more production of
electricity from natural gas, which emits fewer <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"
title="Recent and archival news about global warming.">global warming</a>
emissions than coal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'>What the drilling push will do
to local environments is another matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>More
here ::: <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/business/energy-environment/08fracking.html?ref=energy-environment">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/business/energy-environment/08fracking.html?ref=energy-environment</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";
color:black'>Shauna, OKC</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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