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On the recordJuly 7, 2011
For communities around this country the expansion of natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing has meant contamination of water supplies, loss of property value, deteriorating health conditions, dead livestock, and destruction of pristine forest and agricultural lands.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the negative impacts of natural gas drilling on communities.

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