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Shale Gas Drilling is Major Threat to Water Supply for Millions

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Congress to Investigate Safety of Natural Gas Drilling Practice Known as Hydraulic Fracturing

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The top Democrats on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce have asked eight oil-field companies to disclose the chemicals they’ve used and the wells they’ve drilled in over the past four years. Last week, Waxman also revealed two of the largest gas drilling companies have pumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel-based fluids into the ground in violation of a voluntary agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency.

View video of Democracy NOW program on developments in shale gas drilling here:

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/23/congress_to_investigate_safety_of_natural

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Greek Trade Unions Call 24 hr. General Strike to fight austerity measures aimed at working people

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Trade Union members blockade the Greek Stock Exchange to protest austerity policies favoring the banks

from BBC News

The Trade Unions of Greece have called a 24 hour general strike to protest the austerity measures aimed at workers. It is the second general strike in two weeks and coincides with growing anger at the EU’s response to the crisis.

The action is set to be the biggest since Greece’s socialist government introduced cuts to bring the country’s debt and deficit under control.

Greece has closed airspace to all flights, trains and ferries are standing idle, and archaeological sites have been shut.

The country currently has a spiralling public deficit of 12.7%, more than four times higher than eurozone rules allow.

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