North Carolina Fracking

The Walnut Cove Board of Commissioners is taking a stand against fracking legislation passed last week by the General Assembly.

North Carolina's NAACP gets a boost with the support of the daughter of a former Vice President. Karenna Gore will speak at a news conference in Stokes County Wednesday morning.

Walnut Cove's town council is reconsidering their earlier vote approving a fracking test in June. Their meeting on Tuesday was packed with residents also questioning the council's vote.

Proponents and detractors on the issue of fracking in North Carolina are focused now on a small hole to be drilled in a Piedmont community.

Some new rules on fracking may come out of the public hearings held over the summer.

A conservation group is questioning some people who came to a public hearing in western North Carolina to support fracking.

SciWorks Radio is a production of 88.5 WFDD and SciWorks, the Science Center and Environmental Park of Forsyth County, located in Winston-Salem.

Nearly 150 people in Rockingham County gathered Monday night at the County Cooperative Extension Office in Reidsville to learn the facts about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

The North Carolina legislature has paved the way for hydraulic fracturing or fracking to begin in the state.

SciWorks Radio is a production of 88.5 WFDD and SciWorks, the Science Center and Environmental Park of Forsyth County, located in Winston-Salem. 

Check out this this map to see where the Rift Basins and Subbasins lie in North Carolina.