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SALLADASBURG, Pa. (AP) - State police in central Pennsylvania say an unknown amount of the fluid used in natural gas drilling spilled onto a roadway and into a creek after a collision involving two tractor-trailers.
The Williamsport Sun-Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/tODEII) one truck rear-ended the other on Route 287 early Monday afternoon in Mifflin Township, shutting down the roadway for several hours. Police say the second truck was pushed through a stop sign and down an embankment.
The truck overturned and was leaking fracking fluid, which is used in a type of natural gas drilling known as hydraulic fracturing or "fracking."
Environmentalists and other critics worry fracking, which involves blasting the chemical-laced water into the ground, could poison water supplies. But the natural gas industry says it's been used safely for decades.
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