Virginia Reviews Fracking Regs with Eye to Allow Shale Drilling

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This Wednesday the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) will have a first meeting to look at the state's existing rules on fracking. A panel of state officials, a representative from the drilling industry, and "others" (environmentalist wackos?) will assemble in Richmond to review the regulations on the books now, and make recommendations on things to change in anticipation of drillers who have expressed an interest in drilling in some of Virginia's shale plays. No, the shale drillers are interested in is not the Marcellus (found along the western fringes), but instead is the Taylorsville Basin, located south and east of Fredericksburg, VA (see Virginia Inches Closer to Shale Drilling in Taylorsville Basin)...

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