From The Daily Courier:
The North Carolina House is taking a more cautious approach to opening the state for oil extraction.
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The N.C. House should be highly commended for insisting that the legislature retain control over regulations regarding hydraulic fracturing.
Just take a look at other states that are going
full bore on this method of extracting natural
gas from the ground. How safe is their water
supply? Once the water table is contaminated
with chemicals used to blast underground to
access the natural gas, it is gone forever and
it would take years (not in our lifetime) to get
it back to a condition that you could drink it.
The N.C. House is doing its job; money isn’t
everything in life! Try telling that to greedy
developers!