Obama's Support for Fracking 'A Painful Moment' for Communities

alternet.org — Last week, President Obama called the United States "the Saudi Arabia of natural gas" in a speech about boosting domestic energy production. That concerns Wyoming farmer John Fenton, who already has more than two dozen gas wells on his property.

The Environmental Protection Agency ruled in December that water contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming, was a result of natural gas extraction and the controversial technique known as fracking.

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