Lee homeowners fight fracking

March 22, 2014

by Parth Shah

Some Lee County residents have learned they don't own the mineral rights to their own property. (Photo by Parth Shah)
Some Lee County residents have learned they don’t own the mineral rights to their own property. (Photo by Parth Shah)

Fracking is a divisive issue in North Carolina. Environmentalists criticize this kind of drilling, which extracts natural gas from a once unreachable shale rock layer deep within the Earth.

Fracking was legalized in North Carolina in 2012.

Now, some Lee county homeowners have learned that they may not have the right to stop fracking on their own land.

Parth Shah reports.

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