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Section 5.3 — The Costs of Fracking
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In this section of the fracking report, DENR outlines some of the costs and payments associated with fracking, including what states such as North Carolina tax for the practice.
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Raleigh City Council Prepares Fracking Resolution
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It appears it isn’t just environmental and community groups who are wary about the possibility of hydraulic fracturing in North Carolina. Raleigh’s City Council is working on a resolution requesting “no legislation in this field until the safety of the process can be established by the appropriate state agencies.” There are two different drafts of the resolution, which were discussed briefly at the last council meeting May 1. One was prepared by the Raleigh City Attorney’s office and the other by District D Counselor Thomas Crowder. The former draft portrays the issue in a much more negative light in regards to the environmental impact of fracking.
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Section 5.2: Money talks
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Of course fracking will boost the economic situation in North Carolina and that means jobs. But as Laura explains in today’s FrackFocus post, those jobs won’t be around forever.
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Section 5 – Estimates for an economic influx
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The Record’s fracking blog: This next section of the impact study addresses the potential economic impacts that hydraulic fracturing and the introduction of the natural gas industry would have in North Carolina. Scratch that. COULD have.
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Section Four Finalized: The Rest of the Chemical-Water Questions
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The DENR study’s wording assures readers that while all of these chemicals are in fact hazardous and can pose problems for public health, exposure to them only occurs in case of an accident or a spill! Phew. It’s good that those sorts of things never happen.
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Section Four Continued: More on Water Pollution
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Unlike other hydraulic fracturing fluids, diesel fuel is regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act. But as Laura finds in the DENR report, that doesn’t mean it’s actually regulated.
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Section 4, Part One: Chemical questions
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What’s in your water? As Laura continues to break down the DENR report on fracking, she finds some interesting facts about chemicals and groundwater.
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Section 3 Finalized: Wrapping up the water woes
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As Laura continues to break down the DENR report on fracking, she delves into the end of Section 3, which is about water. Water is one of the main concerns surrounding fracking, and here DENR gives some hard numbers.
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Section 3 continued: Water, water, everywhere, but who will regulate?
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One thing unclear if fracking were to move forward: who would keep track of all that water use?
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Section 3: Water What-Ifs
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The next section of DENR’s fracking study takes a look at the effect on water supply – both the amount of water needed and the potential for groundwater pollution.
