Fracking And Gas Pipelines Coming To A River Near You
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Hancock, MD - Protestors marched through town to oppose a fracked gas pipeline proposal to move product from Pennsylvania to West Virginia by tunneling underneath the C&O Canal and beneath the Potomac River.
“Columbia Gas Transmission has applied for a permit from the National Park Service to do survey work in the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park just west of Hancock. The park service is reviewing the permit.
If the survey permit is approved, the gas company would apply for a permit to begin digging a tunnel under the park and under the river.
The pipeline would take fracked gas from Pennsylvania and ship it to West Virginia and points east.”
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