T. Boone Pickens has enthusiastically endorsed what the Raleigh News-Observer called a “sweeping legislative package that would reshape the state’s political landscape with new boards, task forces and a smorgasbord of requirements.
The package includes requirements for the state to purchase vehicles that run on natural gas and, according to Pickens, is an “aggressive move to move the state’s school buses off OPEC oil/diesel/gasoline and onto domestic natural gas.”
One of the bills would permit hydraulic fracturing or fracking as a method of recovering natural gas safely and efficiently. That bill, “known as the Clean Energy and Economic Security Act, would legalize the practice within about two years” and passed on Wednesday.
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— The Pickens Team