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Monday, September 24, 2012

Decades of Federal Dollars Helped Fuel Gas Boom from the Associated Press 
"‘‘The free market has worked its magic,’’ the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council, an industry group, claimed over the summer. ... those who helped pioneer the technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, recall a different path. Over three decades, from the shale fields of Texas and Wyoming to the Marcellus in the Northeast, the federal government contributed more than $100 million in research to develop fracking, and billions more in tax breaks."

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