Thanks to Natural Gas Drilling, PA's Water Is Flammable

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	Thanks to Natural Gas Drilling, PA's Water Is Flammable

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5a8657b8-6bc1-4567-aad8-7e0531ed7294/7E54FA06-2F04-42EE-B7F4-76187A9EBF27/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/water/139279/thanks_to_natural_gas_drilling%2C_pa%27s_water_is_flammable/" href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/water/139279/thanks_to_natural_gas_drilling%2C_pa%27s_water_is_flammable/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/water/139279/thanks_to_natural_gas_drilling%2C_pa%27s_water_is_flammable/"><P class="storyheadline">Thanks to Natural Gas Drilling, PA's Water Is Flammable</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/water/139279/thanks_to_natural_gas_drilling%2C_pa%27s_water_is_flammable/"><DIV class="teaserleft">
		Watch this video to see a person light drinking water on fire as it comes out of the tap.
	</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/water/139279/thanks_to_natural_gas_drilling%2C_pa%27s_water_is_flammable/"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fLn4zh6Eadw" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/water/139279/thanks_to_natural_gas_drilling%2C_pa%27s_water_is_flammable/"><P>According to the United States Geological Survey, the Marcellus Shale Formation, which stretches across 9 states and into Canada, is believed to contain up to 50 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas. Potentially, two thousand natural gas wells could be drilled across northern and western Pennsylvania in the coming years.<BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/water/139279/thanks_to_natural_gas_drilling%2C_pa%27s_water_is_flammable/"><P>The PA Campaign for Clean Water has made a number of suggestions to DEP Secretary John Hanger for policies that would protect our watersheds from damage, and continues to press top DEP officials to make sure that our rivers and streams are protected. Pennsylvania must learn the lesson from past coal mining experience, and do things right this time!<BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/water/139279/thanks_to_natural_gas_drilling%2C_pa%27s_water_is_flammable/">In the video</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/water/139279/thanks_to_natural_gas_drilling%2C_pa%27s_water_is_flammable/">Victoria Switzer,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/water/139279/thanks_to_natural_gas_drilling%2C_pa%27s_water_is_flammable/">a resident of Dimock, Pennsylvania, shares her account of local drilling development and the affect it is already having on her community.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7E54FA06-2F04-42EE-B7F4-76187A9EBF27/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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