North Carolina rejects federal funds for fracking studies

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North Carolina is begging for some fracking.

North Carolina’s water department doesn’t know if fracking will poison drinking water or despoil wetlands — and that’s just how department leaders like it.

We told you recently that the state is pushing to allow oil and gas companies to use hydraulic fracturing without property owners’ permission. It’s part of a Republican-led push to hurry-the-fuck-up-already on fracking, environmental and health concerns be damned.

Now comes news that Republican Gov. Pat McCrory’s administration has turned down a pair of EPA grants that would have paid for monitoring of water quality and wetlands as the much-ballyhooed fracking bonanza gets underway. Because, um, well, they say it’s because the fracking boom isn’t happening quickly enough to justify any pre-fracking baseline environmental monitoring.

The state wetlands program’s development unit applied for the two EPA grants before Gov. McCrory was sworn into office in January. Under McCrory, however, the unit was dissolved amid a bureaucratic restructure, and the Division of Water Resources turned down the nearly $600,000 worth of federal assistance that the state had previously requested.

[DURHAM D]

1. FUCKING IDIOTS

[G_j]

2. That's putting it nicely..nt

[ladyVet]

5. That pretty much says it:

FUCKING IDIOTS

Just another day in paradise for those of us trying to hold on here.

Aw hell, who needs clean water anyway?

[patricia92243]

3. It is unbelievable that a Repub governor has done so much harm in so very short a time. It seems

like he has been in office for years - instead of a few short months. How he got voted in is still beyond me

[tanyev]

4. They'd better revise their state motto.

The motto for the state of North Carolina is 'Esse Quam videri', and it means, 'to be, rather than to seem'.