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Home » News: Fracking & Landowner Rights

News: Fracking & Landowner Rights


Recent Media Coverage: 

  • Driller apparently wants to frack Meadowmont in Chapel Hill, INDY Week’s News Blog, July 23, 2014
  • Fracking company makes offers in Durham, INDY Week’s News Blog, July 22, 2014
  • N.C. fracking board member zings advisory group, News & Observer, February 2, 2013
  • Head of cleanup company guides N.C. ‘fracking’ rules, blasts advisory panel as unqualified. Winston-Salem Journal, Jan. 26, 2013
  • Carolina Farm Stewardship Association’s 2012 Awards. Activist of the Year: Rural Advancement Foundation International, October 2012
  • What can Landowners and Communities Do About Fracking? TreeHugger, February 2012
  • Would Fracking in NC Include Consumer Protections? Public News Service, February 2012
  • Fracking session to over landowner rights and protections. News & Observer, April 2012
  • Woes of fracking fill air at summit, News & Observer, September 2011
  • Fracking: Leases are Very Complex. The Pilot, August 2011
  • N.C. landowners signing one-sided agreements with fracking companies, Indyweek, May 2011

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