Posted on 03/18/2015 5:21:50 AM PDT by thackney
Rules governing the hydraulic fracturing method for drilling natural gas are expected to take effect Tuesday, creating the potential for drilling to start later in the year.
The set of 120 rules that govern issues including well construction, water testing and buffer zones was developed by the state Mining and Energy Commission over nearly two years and approved in December by a separate state panel.
With the fracking rules in place, companies interested in finding natural gas can begin applying for fracking permits. A member of the Mining and Energy Commission, James Womack, said a company interested in fracking would first have to acquire the mineral rights for several hundred acres to create what’s known as a drilling unit.
Womack said he knows of one foreign company and a North Carolina group that are each interested in putting together drilling units, though he declined to name them. Womack said that the North Carolina group has already been negotiating with landowners and appears ready to put a drilling unit together quickly.
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And the ethical Frackers........
Representatives of several environmental groups delivered 50 boxes to Gov. Pat McCrory’s
office Tuesday filled with what they said were signatures from more than 50,000 people
who don’t want hydraulic fracturing to occur in the state.
The groups are part of the “Frack Free NC Alliance.”
McCrory’s spokesman, Josh Ellis, however, said what the group delivered were six boxes
of petitions and 44 empty boxes.
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