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$Half-truths don’t make fracking any cleaner, safer$

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Barry Gan Special to the Olean Times Herald

July 25, 2013

Half-truths don’t make fracking any cleaner, safer

Deroy Murdock’s column in the July 15 edition of the Olean Times Herald, on the “greenness” of fracking, is filled with half-truths.

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