NC fracking bill becomes law with veto override

AP ^ | 7/2/12 | Associated Press

[greenwill]

RALEIGH, N.C. - The gas-drilling process known as "fracking" will be authorized in North Carolina now that the General Assembly has overridden Gov. Beverly Perdue's veto of a bill that sets rules and regulations for the form of shale gas production.

[greenwill]

The House voted late Monday night 72-47 in favor of overriding her veto. The margin was just enough to meet the 60-percent majority required for overrides. Senators voted 29-13 earlier in the day.

Perdue issued the veto Sunday, saying she objected to the bill based on environmental and other concerns.

[Flightdeck]

One dem accidentally voted in favor, lol

[elpadre]

good job NC Republicans!!!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Perdue is so aptly named.

[Ingtar]

I believe she was told by the vote counters that it would fail, even without her vote, and wanted to be on record as supporting it. I love it when their games fail them.

[Tunehead54]

It was probably just an accident ... bump! ;-)

[srmorton]

This is great news! Beverly Purdue has been almost as bad a governor as Obama has been a POTUS!!

[nascarnation]

Is there any “frackable” gas/oil in NC, or was this just for show?

[moovova]

Nice little boot in the butt for Perdue as she exits left in November.

Maybe there’s hope for NC afterall.

[MissMagnolia]

Wonder if the Obama campaign will banish her to the weeds during the convention? Having such a ‘loser’ on the stage with The Won might upset his mojo & they don’t care who they throw under the bus.

[mountainlion]

Your user name reminded me of Greenwillie.

[Okieshooter]

“Is there any “frackable” gas/oil in NC, or was this just for show?”

There doesn’t appear to be any known shale gas reservoirs there and I doubt if there is any oil so it is for show.

http://www.energyindustryphotos.com/shale_gas_map_shale_basins.htm

[crusty old prospector]

There is no current production in North Carolina, to my knowledge. Their best bet would be coalbed methane or offshore where some wells found some non-commercial shows back the 1970-1980’s. There have only been 129 wells drilled in the entire state. That is less than a three-mile radius of where I am sitting in my office in Texas. Only seven wells have been drilled in NC since 1980. Next, Maine will ban fracing and then override it for show.

[Skulllspitter]

“Using a geology-based assessment method, the USGS estimates the mean undiscovered natural gas resources in the Deep River Basin in North Carolina to be 1,660 billion cubic feet of gas and 83 million barrels of natural gas liquids. Based on the 2010 average daily natural gas consumption volume in North Carolina of 811 million cubic feet per day, the USGS mean estimate of 1.66 trillion cubic feet could meet the state’s natural gas demand for 5.6 years.

NC Dept of Env. & Natural Resources statement on USGS survey

It's Triassic Basin, if that means anything to you geologically. All I know is the Triassic had dinosaurs. And cavemen!

[Tunehead54]

Heh! Like I said ... ;-)

House Dem says she erred on NC fracking override

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Several Democrats voted for it, but one did by accident and she is beside herself bc that was the deciding vote.

[Okieshooter]

“All I know is the Triassic had dinosaurs. And cavemen!”

I believe that there were some early dinosaurs during that period, but it was a bit early for cavemen, 245 to 208 million years ago.

Just because the USGS says that deposits there that doesn’t mean they are commercially viable, but maybe so. After all much of the oil and gas being produced today wasn’t viable a few years ago. New technolgy and increasing prices can change everything.

[thackney]

The gas-drilling process known as "fracking"

Sigh...

Fracking is not a gas drilling process.

It is a "process" that is done after drilling is completed. It is done for both oil and gas wells.

[thackney]

“Is there any “frackable” gas/oil in NC, or was this just for show?”

There doesn’t appear to be any known shale gas reservoirs there and I doubt if there is any oil so it is for show.

There is no current production in North Carolina, to my knowledge.

There is no current oil production in North Carolina.

Oil Production by State
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_crd_crpdn_adc_mbblpd_m.htm

There is no current gas production in North Carolina.

Number of Producing Gas Wells by State
http://www.eia.gov/state/state-energy-profiles-analysis.cfm?sid=NC

However, there is potential to produce from tight formations such as shale.

Hydrocarbon Source Rocks in the Deep River
and Dan River Triassic Basins, North Carolina
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1108/ofr2008-1108.pdf

N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Shale Gas - Overview / Introduction
http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/guest/shale-gas

[Hoodat]

Perdue issued the veto Sunday, saying she objected to the bill based on environmental and other concerns because she is a mindless economy-killing Democrat.

There, fixed it.