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Gov. Bev Perdue issued an executive order on Monday calling on various state agencies to organize a work group to study hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and then make recommendations for the best ways to regulate the practice.

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) can be done safely “as long as the right protections are in place prior to issuance of any permits for the practice,” according to a draft report from North Carolina’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

All factions of the Canadian energy industry wasted no time in teaming up to tell the newly-elected minority government in Ottawa it will step in a political minefield if it interferes with the status quo of deregulation and free trade with the United States.

All factions of the Canadian energy industry wasted no time in teaming up to tell the newly-elected minority government in Ottawa it will step in a political minefield if it interferes with the status quo of deregulation and free trade with the United States.