No fracking way 
Some energy businesses turned off by pricey process of getting natural gas from beneath layers of shale
By
Scott Baughman, staff writer
Published: July 15, 2011
Time posted: 7:31 am
Tags: Beverly Perdue, Dean Naujoks, Research Triangle Energy Consortium, Robert Hardison, Status Oilwells, Tar Heel Natural Gas, Vikram Rao, Yadkin River Keeper
Decades’ worth of energy could be sealed up in shale in the piedmont of North Carolina.
But Robert Hardison, president of Status Oilwells Inc. in Charlotte, doesn’t really care.
Although some are calling for North Carolina to allow a controversial process known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to harvest natural gas below the shale, Hardison is not ...
Published: July 15, 2011
Time posted: 7:31 am
Tags: Beverly Perdue, Dean Naujoks, Research Triangle Energy Consortium, Robert Hardison, Status Oilwells, Tar Heel Natural Gas, Vikram Rao, Yadkin River Keeper
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