At a recent hearing before a state legislative committee, Mitch Gillespie, assistant secretary for the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, said the agency plans to study locations in the far western counties of North Carolina to assess their feasibility for hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”
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