A small town in Texas has run out of water and local residents are blaming shale gas fracking . Barnhart, a one horse town in Irion county, was already suffering after three years of drought, The Guardian reports, but it wasn’t until contractors started drilling wells to supply water for shale gas fracking that the real problems began. Read the rest of Fracking Dries Out Texas Town’s Water Supply Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Barnhart Texas , Drought , environmental destruction , fossil fuel extraction , fracking , oil industry , texas fracking , Texas is drying up , texas oil , texas town dries up , water issues
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Fracking Dries Out Texas Town’s Water Supply
