North Carolina on notice that oil rigs may be in its future
North Carolina’s legislators expressed cautious support for President Barack Obama’s proposal last week to open the Atlantic coastline to offshore drilling.
But state Sen. Marc Basnight said he was reminded of the black specks he saw on a Gulf Coast beach: Along the tide line on the sand, the place where a beachcomber would find some shells, there was what looked like black dirt.
“You could gather it up in your hand and rub it and warm it up,” the Manteo Democrat recalled last week. Within seconds, he said, the material became oily.
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