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Environmental Justice  past

 and future: shale gas  practices

 avoid  drilling in wealthier

 hoods; target poor  said vice

 president  to avoid  residents 

who might have the money to fight.

  drilling and fracking operation

“pose significant environmental justice issues, 

 the companies coming into communities

 are really operating in the best interests of those communities.

drilling operations have been

located away from wealthier

 homes and neighborhoods

to  protect these communities

  from the adverse effects of industrial land uses.”

“how hard we work

 to site our locations

 in the best possible place

 for residents and the community-

people with fewer resources

 to challenge  are the ones targeted.

how confident the industry is in the state.”

 shale gas well-drilling permits 

were not one of the state permits

 that triggered an environmental justice review.

“[The EJ office] wasn’t functioning before. ,”

 said  Secretary of phone interviews last week.

 he hopes to have a draft

 of new environmental justice

 review procedures available

 for public comment

 by late summer or early fall.

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Don Hopey: dhopey@post-gazette.com, 412-263-1983, or on Twitter @donhopey.