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Dear RDA Members,

In this issue, our 3 stories cover all 3 levels in the gas drilling arena: federal, state and local. 
We invite you to take action, read what your fellow citizens have to say about gas drilling, and reflect with us on the anniversary of saving Rider Park from the drill.

FEDERAL – AN IMPORTANT CALL TO ACTION

Although much of the conversation on the environmental impacts of gas drilling has focused on water pollution, the air pollution generated by this industry poses an equally ominous hazard. For example, in eastern Lycoming County, at the top of Beaver Lake Road outside Hughesville, in what was once a bucolic rural setting, sits the Barto compressor. Not only is the scenery (fields and farmland, country church and little cemetery) changed – so is the air quality. According to the EPA web site, some compressor stations can create the same amount of noxious emissions in one year as the exhausts of 7500 cars each driving 12,000 miles!

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