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		<title>NC Fracking Study Nears Completion</title>
		<link>http://chathamcitizens.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/nc-fracking-study-nears-completion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is arguably an ill-conceived and poorly timed study on the feasibility of shale gas extraction via hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has the unenviable task of heading the study given too little time and too few funds. The final report is required by May of this year. While [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chathamcitizens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19702096&amp;post=226&amp;subd=chathamcitizens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Well-Informed Public is a Pain in the…Gas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ll never find that statement or anything close to it attached to public relations ads and commercials from the natural gas industry. The pharmaceutical industry must be green with envy. It spends half of its TV commercial time disclosing the dangerous and sometimes deadly side effects of the latest wonder drug. Yet, the natural gas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chathamcitizens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19702096&amp;post=192&amp;subd=chathamcitizens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hear This: Fracking May Not Bring Economic Rewards After All</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Envirospeak” is a foreign language, unintelligible and despised by most Republican legislators, and some Democrats as well. It is, therefore, ignored by them at best and attacked at worst. Those suspected of speaking it are perceived as “irrational zealots,” “environmental extremists” and no friend of commerce and the economy. It is for this reason that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chathamcitizens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19702096&amp;post=171&amp;subd=chathamcitizens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow… Or Soon Thereafter</title>
		<link>http://chathamcitizens.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/the-sun-will-come-out-tomorrow%e2%80%a6-or-soon-thereafter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross your fingers and toes (if that is your style). Trust and pray (if that is your persuasion). Whatever the method, let’s all hope that Paul Krugman in his recent NY Times op-ed column isn’t just seeing sun spots when he peers into his crystal ball and observes the dawning of a new energy era: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chathamcitizens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19702096&amp;post=179&amp;subd=chathamcitizens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Dialogue as Toxic Dump</title>
		<link>http://chathamcitizens.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/political-dialogue-as-toxic-dump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I’m reading the ‘letters to the editor’ section of any given newspaper, or scanning local chatlists, I begin to feel my shoulders tighten, my pulse race, my jaws clench. Ugh! I know I’m not alone in this visceral reaction, wanting to care about the democracy in which I live, but more and more, finding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chathamcitizens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19702096&amp;post=167&amp;subd=chathamcitizens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Fracking Challenge</title>
		<link>http://chathamcitizens.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/a-fracking-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Issued July 25, 2011 Today on the front lawn and within the stately chambers of the Legislative Building in Raleigh, I demonstrated along with half a hundred like minded advocates my opposition to bills that will deregulate environmental protections and lead to legalizing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in North Carolina. Such action always borders on masochism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chathamcitizens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19702096&amp;post=162&amp;subd=chathamcitizens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Ride of the Chatham Bookmoblie</title>
		<link>http://chathamcitizens.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/159/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Chatham Bookmobile<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chathamcitizens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19702096&amp;post=159&amp;subd=chathamcitizens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good jobs or the environment &#8230; do we have to choose?</title>
		<link>http://chathamcitizens.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/151/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a man named Dan Marley posed this question on the Chatham Chatlist (#4070): &#8220;Does anyone think that these groups: Chatham Citizens for Effective Communities, the Deep River Clean Water Society, the Haw River Assembly, the Friends of the Rocky River and the Sierra Club Orange-Chatham Group &#8230; are concerned about the ability of the County to attract high [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chathamcitizens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19702096&amp;post=151&amp;subd=chathamcitizens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Streamlining&#8221; Continues</title>
		<link>http://chathamcitizens.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/streamlining-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 21:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s going on these days in Chatham County government? The so-called “streamlining” continues. It’s easy to lose track of where we are in what could more accurately be described as a mudslide. A public hearing has been scheduled for June 6th on proposed amendments to the county&#8217;s Watershed Protection Ordinance (WPO), which would return the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chathamcitizens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19702096&amp;post=144&amp;subd=chathamcitizens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forward to the Past: Senate Bill 709’s Step Backward in Fracking and Energy Policy</title>
		<link>http://chathamcitizens.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/forward-to-the-past-senate-bill-709%e2%80%99s-step-backward-in-fracking-and-energy-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 20:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quarter century ago the world was introduced to a humorous science fiction movie about time travel.  In a move of pure genius, it was given the curious and catchy title: “Back to the Future.” The confusing play on words was a real grabber. It was so well received that sequels II and III soon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chathamcitizens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19702096&amp;post=140&amp;subd=chathamcitizens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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