caught spending 82 million euros in Europe to oppose fracking
Published: Thursday, June 1st, 2023 @ 5:54 pm
By: John Steed
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As Putin's funding environmentalist groups against fracking and pipelines show
Published: Thursday, November 17th, 2022 @ 10:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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in spite of energy crisis
Published: Thursday, October 27th, 2022 @ 6:58 pm
By: John Steed
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The government of the United Kingdom ended its fracking ban in a push to bolster the nation’s energy security, according to a Thursday announcement.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 1:55 pm
By: Daily Wire
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In a previous research brief, I wrote about how existing nuclear power plants produce “zero emissions while at the same time being the most reliable and lowest-cost source of electricity.”
Published: Saturday, November 27th, 2021 @ 11:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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America is poised to become energy independent, and its allies abroad will share the economic and geopolitical benefits, a key Trump administration official says
Published: Thursday, May 17th, 2018 @ 7:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I attended the meeting yesterday at Manteo of (BOEM), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. It was at the Ramada Inn, 4th floor conference room.
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2015 @ 11:16 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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It's created a huge economic boom in the Dakotas. Environmentalists want you to believe it will poison your children and kill your ability to have children. In any case, fracking is revolutionizing the energy industry. It's giving our economy a much needed boost.
Published: Thursday, January 1st, 2015 @ 10:31 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I look at the smoke coming out the stacks across the Pamlico River from me and wonder --- What is in that smoke???
Published: Sunday, November 9th, 2014 @ 1:33 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Education is the campaign focus as the North Carolina House District 118 race heads toward the finish line.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 6:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am told there are equally "deep pockets" folks funding the Hagan Campaign. With current disclosure laws supposed to make Campaign Finance more transparent, we have a TOTAL FAILURE.
Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 @ 6:09 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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In the "Rights and Regulation Update" and in two separate reports I have offered an important emerging consensus in the public debate about hydraulic fracturing...
Published: Monday, September 29th, 2014 @ 3:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In this newsletter and in two separate reports I have offered an important emerging consensus in the public debate about hydraulic fracturing:
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 8:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since the 1940s, over a million wells have used hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") safely.
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 9:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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How safe is fracking? Does it contaminate water? Use too much water? Use secret chemicals? As opponents of hydraulic fracturing continue to criticize the process, a new John Locke Foundation Policy Report turns to evidence to answer these and other common questions.
Published: Thursday, August 14th, 2014 @ 10:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In June 2014 the General Assembly passed and Gov. Pat McCrory signed the Energy Modernization Act.
Published: Tuesday, August 12th, 2014 @ 7:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An iconic image in the propaganda war against hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") is that of flammable tap water. Water you can light on fire. It is a calculated image to terrify.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 12:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the Resolutions Chair for the Pitt County GOP, I wrote a series of resolutions that I plan to present at the upcoming 2014 Pitt County GOP Convention, on March 8.
Published: Saturday, March 1st, 2014 @ 3:44 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Gov. Pat McCrory on Tuesday outlined the goals for his second year in office, which include increasing teacher pay, fast-tracking fracking, and calling on the General Assembly to embrace his wife's top project - enacting puppy mill legislation.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 4:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Here below is the latest poll from Civitas, and I find it interesting because of its subject matter - the battleground issue of energy. We all use it, just some of us don't quite understand the economic ramifications at any of the levels of it economic necessity to continue without serious disrupti
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 1:41 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina lawmakers are ready to capitalize on what some are calling the "natural gas boom." A bill lifting the state's moratorium on fracking -- a method for releasing natural gas that environmentalists feel is controversial...
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2013 @ 1:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Shale gas has the potential to materially improve the economic lot of every citizen of the U.S." Dr. Vikram Rao, executive director of the Research Triangle Energy Consortium.
Published: Sunday, January 20th, 2013 @ 6:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The presence of natural gas in shale rock formations, such as in the Deep River Basin in Lee, Chatham, and Moore counties, has long been known. Hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), a process to extract natural gas from shale, has been around since the 1940s but has been cost-prohibitive.
Published: Thursday, October 25th, 2012 @ 10:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2012 Legislative Session was especially notable for authorizing legislation to set the stage for energy exploration in North Carolina. The legislature also passed several important bills to limit job-killing environmental regulations, while maintaining environmental protection.
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2012 @ 9:18 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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An override of Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's budget veto highlighted a day of votes in which the Republican-controlled General Assembly shot down the governor's vetoes three times.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 3:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's overall economic situation has seen consistent decline over the last several decades. Small towns and big cities around the state have seen businesses large and small leave the state for more profitable lands or go completely out of business.
Published: Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 @ 1:44 am
By: Bill Cook
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Landowners need consumer protections built into North Carolina law to prevent potential financial losses, property damage, and mortgage mayhem from complicated oil and gas leases, said officials in the state Attorney General's Office April 26 to members of the Environmental Review Commission.
Published: Thursday, May 10th, 2012 @ 2:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Natural gas exploration using hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, may be moving forward in North Carolina. Gov. Bev Perdue recently changed her mind and supports it, with limitations.
Published: Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 @ 3:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Opponents of natural gas "fracking" heckled, hissed and tried to drown out vastly outnumbered speakers supporting the controversial process during a public hearing Tuesday night.
Published: Thursday, April 5th, 2012 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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