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Town of Torrey moves forward on hydrofracking
Penn Yan Chronicle-Express (blog)
By John Christensen In their rescheduled board meeting last Monday, the Town of Torrey Board accepted the charter of the Hydrofracking Investigation Committee, which is making a study of the gas drilling practice and the potential benefit and costs for ...


Town Officials to Show Essex Exec Flood Mitigation Plans
Patch.com
The Mayors and South Orange's Village President whose towns border the Rahway River in Essex and Union Counties will present to Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo on Thursday a report on the potential for storm water storage in the South Mountain ...

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Mining towns say deadly highway a disgrace
ABC Online
The 273-kilometre Peak Downs Highway runs from Clermont in the west, past the mining town of Moranbah, and on to Mackay on the coast. The stretch of bitumen is crucial to the national economy - about 200 million tonnes of export coal came out of the ...

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