ApocaDocs: Environmental group hopes to empower communities facing fracking

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Posted Tue Sep 25 2012: from Midwest Energy News:


	Environmental group hopes to empower communities facing fracking http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1348587003 As hydraulic fracturing for natural gas has taken off, communities have scrambled to control fracking within their borders, while the oil and gas industry has fought in state legislatures and courts to stop communities from hampering their operations. The Natural Resources Defense Council hopes its new legal and policy defense fund, which was announced last Friday, will boost communities in their efforts...NRDC Community Fracking Defense Project, as the group calls it, will employ 12 NRDC staffers, including geologists, health experts, policy advocates who work with state legislatures, and "a corps of lawyers," Henderson said.

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Ideally, they'll throw some superheroes into the mix as well.