There are plenty of regulations and guidelines that exist and will exist after this legislation passes. Fracking has been in existence for many years and there has not been a single documented instance of water contamination, earthquake, or other "scare mongering" catastrophe. Certainly there need to be rules and guidelines in the process and there are plenty in place already. It's time to get rid of the excessive and non-beneficial regulations and bureaucrats. Fear, ignorance, and media hype have cost us excessively in the past. The liberals continually chant the mantra of moving forward but seldom want to allow free enterprise the ability to benefit individuals. It's time to truly move forward and let the people produce and the economy grow. The more regulations and bureaucrats thrown in the mix the move opportunity for corruption and cronyism. Let's keep it simple and transparent.

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Well, well... It looks like big money is going to win again.. When are our representatives going to actually REPRESENT the lowly citizens of this state instead of treating us like lowly peasants???

Hey why don't we see if we can entice 'green energy' companies to North Carolina? Then we can rest assured there will not be any environmental contamination. Nothing but pure air, water, and soil.

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/26/green-energy-subsidy-recipient-a-toxic-waste-problem/

Let the NC Senate and House know whichever way you feel:

Senate email addresses:

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/reports/room-phone.pl?Chamber=senate&viewType=normal

House email addresses:

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/reports/room-phone.pl?Chamber=House&viewType=normal

Very good read below:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/343202/description/The_Facts_Behind_the_Frack

Potential hazards, earthquake info. included

Other changes in the bill include removing the state geologist and water and air experts from the state Mining and Energy Commission. An amendment that local governments be able to charge drillers taxes to pay for the damage to local roads their trucks and equipment cause was voted down also.

They insist on getting rid of every individual who has a brain not tuned to the conservative mantra and are rolling back safeguards that were inserted to get enough votes on board (in the first place and to override a smart veto), and now they're going back to what they wanted to do in the first place- allow a handful of companies to drill without worrying about pesky regulations or safeguards, and with taxpayers- not drillers- on the hook for damages and problems.

This is criminally deceitful and if the governor is a man of integrity, he should never allow it.

The hazards of fracking are real but the politicians are being courted by energy company with lots of money to throw around. Couple that with a complete lack of accountability in government and this is what you get. The real question is what are we going to do about these politicians who clearly care nothing about their constituents and are only there for personal gain? We need to remind them who the actually work for.

Pat McCrory worked for Duke Energy for 28 years and still holds their stock and has a vested interest to benefit financially from Fracking. Clearly Renewable energies are a threat to big oil and gas and will stop at nothing to continue the practice of polluting our environment with fossil fuels.

Doing this on the "fast track" is going to mean that down the road the citizens of NC will be treated "half fast". If the NC legislators don't protect NC citizens by putting in strict laws and policies up front, the Energy Industry and it's lawyers will take advantage of North Carolinians, reap the profits and leave us to clean up the mess.

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