05/09/2012
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"Here is a very, very, very profitable industry and yet this $45 million program is being footed by the taxpayers."
"In these difficult budgetary times it's important to be extra careful with taxpayer's funds."
"I think that it's something. It just seems to me that these industries, this industry, that's going to benefit from the study of how to do fracking in a way that makes the fracking possible to do."
"I think it's needed research to make sure that this, the fracking, is done in an environmentally friendly way."