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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (180466)2/22/2014 10:35:01 AM
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Shale Energy Opponents Target Maryland Natural Gas Terminal

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Anti-Fracking Fight Heats Up in Maryland
Baltimore’s march against the proposed Cove Point project was the largest environmental protest in the city’s history.
February 21, 2014 inthesetimes.com

More than 500 protestors marched in downtown Baltimore yesterday to oppose the expansion of natural-gas drilling, pipeline expansions and export across the Mid-Atlantic region. The protest was closely linked to the nationwide campaign against the much larger Keystone XL pipeline, and growing agitation over the issue of climate change globally...



Hundreds rally to oppose Cove Point project

By Jamie Smith Hopkins, The Baltimore Sun
Updated February 20, 2014 touch.baltimoresun.com

...Dominion officials said the project should not be seen as a "proxy" for fracking, including whether to allow the method in Maryland. Cove Point exports could come from as far afield as the Gulf Coast through the country's network of pipelines, said Pamela F. Faggert, the company's chief environmental officer."Nor would stopping the Cove Point project likely reduce fracking elsewhere," Faggert said. "Cove Point exports would account for only a small sliver of the gas that could be produced in the United States. Without Cove Point, the only question is where the natural gas would go instead."

That argument didn't fly with rally participants. Paul Roberts, who runs a winery in Western Maryland and sits on the state commission studying fracking, said he's concerned the state will be under far more pressure to allow the technique if natural gas interests can export from Cove Point...
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