Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry 56 Min. by Jill Buck, November 6, 2015, Voice America
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- Texas & Oklahoma: Deregulating to redefine toxic frac waste water as “industrial water” so as to let the oil and gas industry increase profits and dump their toxic waste into waterways?
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