Sylva Herald: No fracking planned for Western North Carolina

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   Matt September 8, 2014

   We dodged that bullet.

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      theOtherBarry September 9, 2014

      Ya think? Just as likely a stunt to ramp down opposition in the western part of the state while they push ahead in the east.

      This GOP-led govt. in Raleigh has mastered the tactic of divide-and-conquer.

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         Matt September 9, 2014

         Maybe you’re right, but my assumption is the energy industry has enough clout to just follow money and not be accountable to any supposed ‘public discussion’ on the matter of fracking.

         It’s prolly a face value situation: they can’t make it financially viable here, (yet)

         I picture a big scary giant sniffing for oil, and he wandered through the mountains, and we all got scared, and he didn’t smell any, so now he’s lumbering back to the piedmont.

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            theOtherBarry September 10, 2014

            And the whole thing could merely have been a feint to distract WNC folks from something real, or it may have been Mitch Gillepsie’s way of trying to squeeze more funding out of the NCGA for DENR.

            I was at the ERC meeting where shale in WNC was first mentioned, and he was definitely working the room in the hopes of getting a fatter budget for exploration. Tossing in the possibility of shale in WNC may have just been his way to sucker in a reluctant Western legislator or two, and it blew up in his face.

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