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This is the seventh and final installment of a new, seven-part radio documentary on natural gas drilling in southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky from WMMT, Appalshop’s public, community radio station in Whitesburg, Kentucky. “Fractured Appalachia” is a one-hour program, also available as seven short features, that examines legal and environmental facets of the region’s burgeoning new energy industry. For more information about gas drilling in the coalfields, check out fracturedappalachia.org, and for more information on WMMT - Mountain Community radio, head over to the revamped wmmt.org.
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This is the seventh and final installment of a new, seven-part radio documentary on natural gas drilling in southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky from WMMT, Appalshop’s public, community radio station in Whitesburg, Kentucky. “Fractured Appalachia” is a one-hour program, also available as seven short features, that examines legal and environmental facets of the region’s burgeoning new energy industry. For more information about gas drilling in the coalfields, check out fracturedappalachia.org, and for more information on WMMT - Mountain Community radio, head over to the revamped wmmt.org.
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