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		<title>Help Butler County Families Hurt by Gas Drilling Now!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iris Marie Bloom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please help the families of Connequenessing Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania get the clean safe water they deserve. Over the past two weeks we&#8217;ve published two heartbreaking stories coming out of Butler County, &#8220;Black Water + Purple Water = A Fracking Nightmare&#8221; and &#8220;Drilling Spills in Over a Dozen Creeks.&#8221;  In fact, we first reported about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectingourwaters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13562831&amp;post=6228&amp;subd=protectingourwaters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Press Release: Butler County Spill; Farmer Blockades Fracking Trucks in Jefferson County</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission investigates a dozen different drllling-related spills in a dozen different creeks in Connoquenessing Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania (new spills in the past two months), Rex Energy has just announced it will remove 6 more families&#8217; water buffaloes next week, depriving families of clean replacement water. One of those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectingourwaters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13562831&amp;post=6187&amp;subd=protectingourwaters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Butler County Breaking: Drilling Spills in Over a Dozen Creeks; &#8220;Frack-Out&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iris Marie Bloom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission reported this morning that they are now investigating over a dozen different drilling mud spills in at least a dozen different freshwater creeks in the Connoquenessing Township area of Butler County. More details below. Kim McEvoy, whose water first turned dark gray in January 2011, said this morning after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectingourwaters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13562831&amp;post=6177&amp;subd=protectingourwaters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bennett Blockade: PA Farmer Blocks Fracking Trucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iris Marie Bloom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I just witnessed a farmer, Mike Bennett of Bennett Farms and Greenhouse up above Big Run, take some unilateral action to blockade the drilling trucks on the Big Run-Prescottville Road that runs through his vegetable farm,&#8221; reported farmer Stephen Cleghorn of Jefferson County, PA on February 17th. &#8220;People are getting pretty fed up with how these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectingourwaters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13562831&amp;post=6164&amp;subd=protectingourwaters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Enbridge Tar Sands Disaster to PA Fracking, Reports of Seizures Abound</title>
		<link>http://protectingourwaters.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/from-enbridge-tar-sands-disaster-to-pa-fracking-seizures-abound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iris Marie Bloom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Enbridge Tar Sands oil disaster over a year ago in the Kalamazoo River is &#8220;worse than originally reported,&#8221; according to analyst  Beth Wallace. Over 1.1 million gallons of tar sands oil have been recovered so far and remediation efforts are continuing well into 2012. The pipeline that burst during the Enbridge tar sands oil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectingourwaters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13562831&amp;post=6136&amp;subd=protectingourwaters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Action Alert: Protect the Susquehanna with Written Comment by Feb. 27th</title>
		<link>http://protectingourwaters.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/quick-action-alert-do-your-job-to-protect-the-susquehanna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No problem if you couldn&#8217;t get to Harrisburg for the Feb. 16th public hearing of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission. You can still tell the Commissioners what you think. Written comments on water withdrawal permits for shale gas development and related matters are being accepted until February 27. Take action here, where Earthworks has created a sample letter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectingourwaters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13562831&amp;post=6129&amp;subd=protectingourwaters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Groups Press Susquehanna River Basin Commission for Moratorium on Water Withdrawals for Fracking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release Contact:  Nathan Sooy  c 717-585-2700 nsooy@cleanwater.org                        Central PA Campaign Organizer, Clean Water Action &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;__&#8212;&#8211;Iris Marie Bloom c 215.840.6489 protectingourwaters@gmail.com                        Director, Protecting Our Waters Groups Press Susquehanna River Basin Commission for Moratorium on Water Withdrawals for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectingourwaters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13562831&amp;post=6117&amp;subd=protectingourwaters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shale Gas: Bubblenomics &amp; Shell Games</title>
		<link>http://protectingourwaters.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/shale-gas-bubblenomics-shell-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece was written by guest blogger Martha Powers. Deborah Rogers has never seen an investment more hyped than shale gas.  On February 1st, Ms. Rogers spoke at the University of Pennsylvania about whether extraordinarily optimistic predictions should lead us to ask how much gas is actually contained in shale, which has long been touted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectingourwaters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13562831&amp;post=6106&amp;subd=protectingourwaters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Triple Action Alert!: Stop the Tarsands, Repeal 1950, and Fight for the Susquehanna</title>
		<link>http://protectingourwaters.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/triple-action-alert-stop-the-tarsands-repeal-1950-and-fight-for-the-susquehanna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Protectors, this week we have no shortage of actions you can take to help protect human and animal health and the environment. Please contribute in every way you can. Kill the Keystone XL Pipeline, Again We&#8217;re sad to report that the Tarsands Keystone XL Pipeline has been resurrected, again. After President Obama nixed the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectingourwaters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13562831&amp;post=6109&amp;subd=protectingourwaters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOS Butler County: Black Water + Purple Water = A Fracking Nightmare</title>
		<link>http://protectingourwaters.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/sos-butler-county-black-water-purple-water-a-fracking-nightmare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iris Marie Bloom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim McEvoy manages to find a spot to put a tray of cupcakes in a kitchen where every level surface is covered with jugs of water. Some of the water is drinkable: that&#8217;s the water her husband re-fills at his job, using one-gallon jugs; or the water she drew from her then-clear, good-tasting well water [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectingourwaters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13562831&amp;post=6093&amp;subd=protectingourwaters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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