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 * Catalysts || Groups/Types || Corrosions ||
 * * Experience with environmental i ssues
 * Potential to work together?
 * Large numbers
 * Concern for their families/communties || Women in Fracked Communities || * Lack of knowledge and access to knowledge
 * Lack of financial resources
 * * Ability to band together?
 * Support from anti-fracking groups
 * Use of technology/media to share their stories || Families in fracked communities || * Lack of financial resources
 * Lack of education
 * Can often be quieted with NDAs
 * Lack of access to certain technology/media ||
 * * Desire not to be around fracking chemicals || Natural gas industry workers || * Financially dependent on fracking
 * Lack of education ||
 * * Vast funding sources
 * Government support
 * American desire to break foreign oil dependence
 * Creation of jobs at fracking sites || Natural gas industry execs and scientists || * questions about "solid science"
 * Internet - better allows individuals to question industry
 * * Easy access to community members || Local government || * Less power than state/national government
 * sometimes swayed by industry
 * Sense among community members that local government officials hold little power? ||
 * * Ability to declare moratoriums
 * || State governments || * Pressure from national level to "aid in reducing dependence of foreign oil." ||
 * * Vast funding sources
 * Access to scientists
 * Ability to enact legislation || National government || * Subject to industry pressures
 * In the pocket of industry lobbyists ||
 * * Access to more funding than many community groups
 * Large networks of supporters
 * Media support || Environmental groups || * Sometimes viewd as biased ||
 * * Access to research grants/funding
 * Networks of researchers
 * In an ideal world, not subject to industry pressures || Academic researchers || * Sometimes pressured by university funding sources ||
 * Networks of researchers
 * In an ideal world, not subject to industry pressures || Academic researchers || * Sometimes pressured by university funding sources ||