From Winston-Salem Journal:
McClatchy Tribune
The N.C. Mining and Energy Commission is plowing through a mountain of public comments on its proposed fracking standards with less than a month left to fine-tune the safety rules for shale gas drilling.
State officials estimate that more than 100,000 comments flooded in by the Sept. 30 deadline and the finally tally could approach 200,000, said Jamie Kritzer, spokesman for the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
The submissions are so voluminous that DENR officials are not sure they have sufficient memory space on the agency’s hard drives to post the comments online for public view, Kritzer said.
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