From the Carolina Public Press:
Week before fracking hearing, Franklin forum attracts hundreds
by Gwen Albers
FRANKLIN — When establishing rules for hydraulic fracturing, North Carolina looked at resources and other states’ best practices before determining that extracting natural gas from deep underground could be done safely, an official with the state’s Mining and Energy Commission said Tuesday.
“Most problems (with fracking were due to) poor casing and bad cementing, causing ruptures,” Jim Womack, the immediate past chairman for commission told about 250 people during a forum at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts. “We’ve spend a lot of time on rule-making. We poured over what the other states have done, looking at well casing and cementing. We looked at where Pennsylvania started and where Pennsylvania ended.”
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