Pittsboro Residents Fight N.C. DOT, Chatham Park Investors Over a Road That Would Traverse Their Rural Neigborhood
The road would require clear-cutting, take private land, divide the neighborhood, and cross Haven Creek, which feeds the Haw River.
Judge temporarily halts fracking permitting in North Carolina
Creative Commons License Wake County Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens has ordered North Carolina to cease accepting or processing fracking permits, pending an ongoing legal battle over the constitutionality of the state’s appointed Mining and Energy Commission (MEC). The Southern Environmental Law Center, a nonprofit that specializes in legal work on environmental issues, announced the…
Fracking commission finishes its rules
As expected, the N.C. Mining and Energy Commission completed its proposed regulations for the natural gas drilling industry on Friday. Also expected, many environmental activists are not happy with the results, which state lawmakers are expected to finalize next year. Read the recommended rules here. “With all of the challenges of NC’s shallow shale formations,…
Third Fork Creek is in trouble
Third Fork Creek in Durham, which, if followed to its final destination, dumps into the Atlantic Ocean, is one of the city’s dirtiest waterways. It is nearly a dead zone for fish and aquatic life, which may explain in part why I haven’t seen as many herons along its banks in Forest Hill Park. The…
Durham commissioners to vote tonight on 751 South
D.L. Anderson Steve Bocckino, an outspoken opponent of 751 South, talks with members of the Durham People’s Alliance at a protest the group held against the development on Thursday, June 17, 2010. At tonight’s public hearing county commissioners will decide whether one of the last stretches of rural land in southern Durham should be open…
Jordan Lake rezoning petitioners sue Durham County over October vote
Four property owners who signed a petition this fall to protest the rezoning of the protective boundary around the portion of Jordan Lake in Durham County filed a lawsuit late Friday against Durham County officials. Attorney Jim Conner of the Ragsdale Liggett firm in Raleigh filed the complaint just after 4 p.m. Friday on behalf…
UDO: Does it offer another possible option for commissioners?
UPDATE, 2:43 p.m. Planning Director Steve Medlin explained the meaning of the UDO section Lowell Siler referred to yesterday. There have been no significant changes in the facts or circumstances of the area to be rezoned, Medlin said. Changes to the validity of the Jordan Lake protest petition have nothing to do with the area…