Gorham Plans to ‘Reach Out’ as New CRC Chairman We asked Frank Gorham to respond to written questions about his role as the new chairman of the N.C. Coastal Resources Commission. Below are his largely unedited responses. The only changes we made were to adhere to Coastal Review Online style….
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What? Fracking on the Coast?
…Hatteras Light well in Dare County, $6,750 each to test old cores samples on file from rift basins in Pasquotank and Camden counties and $519 for a review of a rift basin in Bertie County. “We’re looking from Murphy to Manteo across this state, like the General Assembly told us…
Water Bill Worries Jones, Others on Coast
…in North Carolina and across this nation. As a result, many of these waterways are shoaling badly, and the communities that depend on them are significantly impacted,” Jones said in the statement posted to his congressional web site. The bill, he said, would create “even more projects that would then…
McCrory Releases CRC Appointments
RALEIGH — With meetings on hold for the past couple of months awaiting new members, state Department of Environment and Natural Resources officials are hopeful that a slate of appointments released by the governor’s office yesterday means the Coastal Resources Commission (CRC) can soon return to work. Gov. Pat McCrory…
Coastal Parks, Aquaria Could Get $5 Million
RALEIGH — Cultural and historic sites on the coast will see more than $5 million in much-needed repairs under a plan released this month by the McCrory administration. State budget director Art Pope distributed a list to lawmakers outlining a funding plan for $90 million in capital projects, many of…
CRC: ‘Essentially Out of Business’
RALEIGH — With just a fraction of its membership seated, the state’s Coastal Resources Commission decided to postpone this week’s meeting in Nags Head, which would have been the first since a sweeping overhaul of its membership and structure. The commission was trimmed from 15 to 13 members and all…
CRC Meeting: Quorum or Quandary
RALEIGH – After the state legislature fired most of its members this summer, a short-handed N.C. Coastal Resources Commission will meet today in a special session to decide whether to appeal a court decision over a variance to the state’s policy on sandbags on the beach. If everyone joins the…
Commissions Are Out of Business
RALEIGH — Over the next few weeks expect to see some of the blanks left after the hectic windup to the legislative session filled in, with appointments pending for an array of state boards and commissions and the fate of more than three dozen bills still up in the air….
Legislature Wraps Up Session
RALEIGH — On the heels of this week’s budget deal a handful of remaining environmental laws moved through the N.C. General Assembly as lawmakers wrapped up the 2013 session this morning. Just this week alone, the legislature passed or will do so this morning bills for Gov. Pat McCrory’s signature…
Budget Deal Shuffles State Trust Funds
RALEIGH – State House and Senate leaders reached a deal on a $20.6 billion state budget over the weekend releasing a plan that like its prior versions is filled with policy and structural changes. Key environmental provisions in the budget include a reorganization of the state’s conservation trust funds, the…
Lawmakers Consider Another Rules ‘Reform’ Bill
…House sent across the hallway requires a cumbersome review of all existing state rules at least once every 10 years. Review Process Grady McCallie During those reviews, agencies will have to categorize regulations as either: Necessary with “substantive public interest,” meaning the agency has received public comments objecting to the…
McCrory Objections Slow Landfill Bill
RALEIGH — Movement on a controversial landfill bill passed by the Senate has slowed considerably in the House because of concerns raised by the McCrory Administration. Senate Bill 328, the Solid Waste Management Reform Act of 2013, makes sharp reductions in landfill buffer requirements and environmental safeguards, increases the duration…