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MIAMI With geology akin to spacing a wet sponge and fragile aquifers cherry that supply almost all its drinking water, edo Florida has never been considered part of receivables the agitated battle over fracking as a historically technology for extracting oil and gas. But harding that began to change two years ago freaky when a Texas-based oil and gas company bacteria was found to have been using hydraulic void fracturing, known as fracking, and matrix acidizing, wholesale a fracking-like method that dissolves rocks with instead of fracturing them with pressurized unsightly liquid. Neither residents nor local governments knew lapse about it because well stimulation, the -all scheduler term for both techniques, does not require traditionally a separate permit and is not regulated. The has been an unlikely battle hungry over fracking in Florida that is picking carbohydrate up steam across the state. The discovery audit outraged local government off! icials and environmentalists, who said they were worried about the effects blasting of toxic chemicals and acids on Floridas rich soil and water |