Northern Virginia & Middle Peninsula:
“Citizens aired their concerns last Wednesday over the
possibility of fracking taking place in a basin that stretches through parts of
the Northern Neck and Essex County. During a regular meeting of the Northern
Neck Soil and Water Conservation District, Former 99th District Delegate Albert
C. Pollard and Richard Moncure of the Friends of the Rappahannock gave a
presentation on fracking, or the horizontal drilling process of injecting
chemicals into beds of rock underground known as shale formations to release
natural gas, oil and other resources trapped in the rock.
Local interest in the subject first amassed when it was
discovered that Texas-based Shore Exploration and Production Corp. had secured
85,000 acres of land in leases for fracking in the Taylorsville Basin, which
stretches across Eastern Virginia into parts of Maryland. Most of the acres
were leased in Caroline County, followed by Westmoreland, King George, Essex
and King and Queen Counties.
Moncure said the leases were for seven years and renewable,
while Pollard noted that the landowners were getting $15 per acre each year. If
the oil companies found something, Pollard added, then landowners would receive
a higher amount. Back in December, Shore Exploration President Stan Sherrill
told the Northern Neck News that his company could practice nitrogen fracking
in the basin, which, based on a conversation he said he had with a state
inspector, produced very little environmental results as opposed to
hydrofracking.”
~Writes Westmoreland
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