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Pennsylvania and fracking

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===Moratoriums===
[[Gasland]] director Josh Fox and an alliance of conservation groups called on the Delaware River Basin Commission to ban fracking in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, arguing that the drilling technology would pollute the river’s 14,000-square-mile basin, a source of drinking water for 15 million people. In May 2009 the Commission declared that gas companies wanting to drill in Wayne County would need a permit from the DRBC as well as from the state of Pennsylvania. A year later the commission announced that it would not issue permits and would study the impact of fracking.<ref>Roben Farzad, [http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-07/the-land-that-fracking-forgot#p1 "The Land That Fracking Forgot,"] Bloomberg, June 07, 2012.</ref>
 
In September 2015 actor Mark Ruffalo held a rally in Harrisburg, the state capital, urging the legislator to enact a [[hydraulic fracturing]] moratorium. <ref>Roben Farzad, [http://abc27.com/2015/10/07/actor-mark-ruffalo-joins-anti-fracking-rally-at-state-capitol/ "Actor Mark Ruffalo joins anti-fracking rally at state Capitol,"] ABC27.COM, October 7, 2015,.</ref>
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