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Landowners in North Carolina may be 
The forced fracking proposal, which the News & Observer reports could be enacted by legislature this fall, would allow an energy company to drill a fracking well and extract gas, whether the homeowner consents or not, after 90% of acreage of a drilling area has been voluntarily leased to energy companies.
While the homeowner would receive some monetary compensation in way of royalties for the sold gas, terms for this were not laid out, and no mention of health or environmental effects from fracking were made.
WNCN has video:
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The forced fracking proposal, which the News & Observer reports could be enacted by legislature this fall, would allow an energy company to drill a fracking well and extract gas, whether the homeowner consents or not, after 90% of acreage of a drilling area has been voluntarily leased to energy companies.
While the homeowner would receive some monetary compensation in way of royalties for the sold gas, terms for this were not laid out, and no mention of health or environmental effects from fracking were made.
WNCN has video:
The forced fracking proposal, which the News & Observer reports could be enacted by legislature this fall, would allow an energy company to drill a fracking well and extract gas, whether the homeowner consents or not, after 90% of acreage of a drilling area has been voluntarily leased to energy companies.
While the homeowner would receive some monetary compensation in way of royalties for the sold gas, terms for this were not laid out, and no mention of health or environmental effects from fracking were made.
WNCN has video: