Reporter Laura White has put together a multimedia timeline, showing fracking’s path in North Carolina.
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Republicans Reach Agreement on Fracking Legislation
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Senator Rucho and Representative Gillespie unveil revision of SB820
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Your Gas and You: Lessons for Landowners in the State Fracking Report
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So you have natural gas under your property, and you own your mineral rights, and you want to make a little money. You should be able to lease at your leisure, right?
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Section 8: Consumer Protection and Legal Issues
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The issuing of extracting gas from land affects homeowners. The next section of the DENR report takes a look at the types of compensation given to homeowners and the legal issues surrounding a homeowner’s mineral rights for his or her house and property.
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Section 7: Establishing Regulation
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So if fracking becomes legal, what laws need to be in place to protect people and the environment? Section 7 of DENR’s draft report explains.
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Raleigh City Council Passes Cautionary Fracking Resolution
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While the General Assembly moved forward Wednesday with legislation that would prepare North Carolina to legalize fracking, Raleigh’s City Council passed its own resolution regarding the issue just days before.
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Section 6: The Social Reaction
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What are some of the other reamifications of fracking? Section 6 of the DENR report takes a look at crime rates, housing and traffic accidents.
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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.
