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Speaker after speaker stepped up over 16 hours to sound off to an EPA panel of researchers on how they think the agency should proceed with its hydraulic fracturing study, or to vent -- sometimes loudly -- about where they stand on the drilling technique.

"We have heard from many people at these hearings who have not and will not learn the science of drilling or hydrofracking," said Dan Fitzsimmons, president of the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York and an ardent drilling supporter. "Many of them are just ill-informed and will believe anything they are told."

Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter member Jurgen Wekerle said the concern about fracking is simple.

"Everything we need to know about hydrofracking we learned in kindergarten: oil, gas and water do not mix," he said.

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