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February 28, 2012

How to Frack Responsibly

Joe Nocera, New York Times


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To put it another way, the technique of hydraulic fracturing, used to extract natural gas from once-impossible-to-get-at reservoirs like the Marcellus Shale that lies beneath New York and Pennsylvania, has more than proved its value. . .

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