In the press

Posted by Union County Weekly

The Monroe Bypass may still be in limbo, but the project remains a hot topic among local business leaders.

By: Brittany Edney
News 14 Carolina
02/07/2013 07:38 AM

MOCKSVILLE, N.C. -- The Yadkin River is a valuable resource in North Carolina and some would like to see the state take control. Alcoa had a 50-year license to operate four dams and facilities on the river but that expired in 2008. As they work toward another long term agreement, others hope to change that course.

Central Park NC wants to know what would happen if North Carolina obtained licensing to operate dams and facilities on the Yadkin River.

By EMERY P. DALESIO, AP Business Writer
Updated 2:18 pm, Tuesday, February 5, 2013

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Local jobs and millions of dollars in investment could flow if North Carolina reclaimed control of four Yadkin River dams from Alcoa Inc., according to a nonprofit development group opposed to the company's bid for another 50-year license.

February 6, 2013
Michael H. Shuman
Cutting Edge Capital
Oakland, CA 94612         

This report was prepared by Central Park NC under award 04-8806648 from Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.  The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Economic Development Administration or the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Published in the Winston-Salem Journal
January 27, 2013

Pictured left, George Howard, president of Restoration Systems LLC, speaks about the mitigation project in the Deep River where his company is removing the Carbonton dam and lowering the river depth.

Photo by Wilmington Star News

By Bertrand M. Gutierrez of the Winston-Salem Journal

News and Observer
January 25, 2013

BY JOHN MURAWSKI - JMURAWSKI@NEWSOBSERVER.COM

Republican Rep. Mitch Gillespie defends a bill which would clear the way to create regulations to govern the practice of hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, for natural gas during a legislative session in the House of Representatives in Raleigh on Thursday, June 14, 2012.

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by Steve Dickens from River Network
Published in Volume 22, Number 3, 2012 Edition of River Voices, A River Network Publication

There are close to a half million gas wells currently operating in the U.S. that employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking) as a means to extract the gas from shale rock formations. Numerous pollutants are released into the air, water and soil as a result of fracking procedures. Releases occur from volatilization from lagoons containing flow-back (“produced”) water from wells; spills from trucks used to transport fracking water and produced water; discharges of produced water into surface waters; and contamination of groundwater aquifers that results from failed well casings and the upward migration of fracking fluid through cracks in the shale rock.