<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Alarming new data produced by the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) reveals a large number of US communities where water supplies have been contaminated by natural gas fracking. View this link to view which communities have been impacted. </font></span><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><a
href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/amall/incidents_where_hydraulic_frac.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+switchboard_all+(Switchboard:+Blogs+from+NRDC's+Environmental+Experts)&utm_content=Twitter">http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/amall/incidents_where_hydraulic_frac.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+switchboard_all+(Switchboard:+Blogs+from+NRDC's+Environmental+Experts)&utm_content=Twitter</a></font></div><div><div style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;">NRDC supports federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing under the Safe
Drinking Water Act. This would be a good policy for us to apply in regards to the Source Water Protection Act as well. </span></font></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(37, 35, 35); line-height: 21px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Here in Canada, natural gas is extracted in and along the Great Lakes, especially around Erie. In the US, no natural gas extraction is allowed in these zones. </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Lulu</div></div></td></tr></table>