It sounds like where some people live they will have big idustrial operations going on very close to their homes, I don't know of anyone who would like that.

Fracking: Just another way to destroy our finite environment here on planet earth as we turn a blind eye toward the inevitable solution of solar energy. If solar is not the answer, we'll ask that again in 50 years when all the fossil fuel reserves are at critical levels.

This is a prime example of how the Democrats will "take our freedoms away" whenever they get the majority in government.

We need to all remember those freedom hatin' Democrats in the next election, and replace them with republicans....the "smaller government" party of FREEDOM.

Pooling looks like something out of Mao's China or Stalin's USSR. Or what the US did to the Indians...

NO! NO! NO! The republicans and their legislative majority are behind this! And Art Pope's hand picked governor will do nothing to protect the regular citizens of NC. Now we will pay the price!!!

Here's a HUGE PROBLEM that the MEC needs to tweak from old laws on the books here in NC. ( not that it'll get any better) Land CAN be taken by eminent domain by the gas companies for running pipelines all over it . Want that in and all over YOUR backyard , literally ?

Forced pooling by gas companies is a huge injustice for several reasons , main one being a LOT of people IN the " chosen land" for this activity do NOT OWN THEIR MINERAL RIGHTS , only SURFACE RIGHTS. Landowners in that posistion get the shaft anyway you look at it for the owners of the mineral rights are the only ones that stand to profit: mineral rights trump surface rights, period. ( don't own your mineral rights? tough luck .) Another thing that is really bad is the gas companies can put up HUGE drill pads, etc. way too close to your homes unless something changes....how does 250 feet from your backdoor sound ? Bottom line, property owners who live on said prop. need to be protected !

rocket, don't wait till it comes to that, because it will be too late.

If this power goes unchecked, then the corporations can do anything they want by waiving a few jobs and claiming it will impact the economy. You're either a property owner or not. If I own the property, then it's mine and the only thing that can override that fact is "public" good. However, public good has been co-opted to mean anything that corporations want. Sorry, but the taking of land or forced land use should be done sparingly and rarely, not as a daily course of business.

rocket, it might be taken by eminent domain, which requires compensation. But it doesn't require market value compensation and which common man has the resources to take on the state govt in court? Even if you did, you could be dead and gone before it's settled.

Like the way they change the headline to something more closely to the actual thing they're trying to fiquire out. This has nothing to do with Imminent domain, this flat out allowing Gas companies to take over you property. This ain't for the goverment, but for the gas companies using the goverment to force people off their land. So far there are several issues coming to light about this fracking business that some are just now waking up to. It really needs to be stopped before it's set in stone and their nothing the citizens can do about.

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