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The technology that has ushered in a renaissance in US natural gas production, spurring Exxon Mobilto offer $31bn for XTO Energy this week, may be polluting drinking water.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3894311796</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:20:15 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Halliburton, Weatherford rise on UBS initiation (at MarketWatch)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/cbsm/rss/SIG=11kitjnkn/*http%3A//www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7bBF586124-E16C-4647-B15A-A5D37F75A068%7d&amp;siteid=yhoof2</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/824028945</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:01:38 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>EGPI Firecreek, Inc. Announces Final Stages for Acquisition of SouthWest Signal Corp. 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