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AMERICAS RURAL ENERGY COALITION During the past 10 years major portions of Americas rural communities have experienced the dramatic impacts resulting from the development of hydraulic frackuring and horizontal drilling in the oil and gas industry. These impacts both positive and negative put pressure on the cultural physical and economic infrastructure of these communities that they were not prepared to handle. Their limited resources and budgets made accessing national expertise and knowledge beyond their reach. While Hydrocarbons oilgas are the dominant energy source today we recognize in the future renewable energy will continue to grow in the energy space and we will include those sources regions in our membership.