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June 13, 2012

Police Raid Anti-Fracking Protest at Mobile Home Park in Pennsylvania 
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Police and private security guards have raided a protest encampment at
the Riverdale Mobile Home Park in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania to break up
a nearly-two week resistance effort by dozens of residents and
activists. The company Aqua America has bought the property to withdraw
up to three million gallons of water per day for use in the gas drilling
process known as fracking. Residents learned of the sale after reading
about it in the newspaper. Many claimed the payments offered are not
enough for them to relocate from the mobile home park, where some have
lived for decades. A group of volunteers and residents calling
themselves "Occupy Well Street" blockaded access roads and covered the
park in hand-painted signs, successfully delaying construction. On
Tuesday, activists complied with requests by residents that they
disperse rather than risk arrest. Some residents still remain in their
homes and negotiations with the company continue.