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Fracking has brought financial rewards to many landowners. Among them, the simplicity-oriented Amish in Southeastern Ohio whose farms lie above the Utica Shale where rich gas fields are being developed.
Amish communities live a simple life, and mostly shun modern technology. But in Carroll County, Ohio, many Amish farms sit on top of rich gas shale beds, and most Amish there welcome fracking, and its rewards. Reid Frazier reports.