More than 100 Western Maryland business owners and residents held a rally in Annapolis today to call on lawmakers to approve a moratorium on natural gas fracking.
The process is on hold in Garret and Allegheny Counties while Governor Larry Hogan studies regulations drafted by the O’Malley Administration.
Members of the group Citizen Shale want further study, though some want the practice banned outright.
Jess Whittemore, a town councilman in Friendsville in Garrett County, says he believes the underground natural gas drilling will contaminate the water supply, in spite of assurances from the oil and gas industry.
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