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Dozens of groups - governmental, environmental, fishing, development, and private citizens - are all functioning at the same time over ways to protect the state's coasts. The issues are complex. Leutze summarizes the status of the coastal areas and the groups working for it.
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Leutze, co-chair of the North Carolina Legislative Commission On Offshore Energy Exploration, provides a synopsis of what drilling for oil off the coast of North Carolina could mean. The committee had finished its report and was preparing to submit it when the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Leutze examines the controversy surrounding the coastal hazard zone maps, which are intended to predict what areas around what inlets are likely to be at risk. Controversy arises, for example, when what was once safe, such as a home built back from the shore, now finds itself in an unsafe area.
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16533
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Although technically called the North Carolina Maritime Strategy study, the $2million study is intended to revive consideration of a mega port in Southport.
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16540
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The Clean Water Management Trust, a fund to protect land around vulnerable streams, wetlands, lakes, and watersheds, has been cut by eighty percent for North Carolina. Trust funds used for conservation purposes, including the National Heritage Trust Fund and Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, have recently been hacked for land acquisition and other economic ventures.
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16554
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Leutze discusses the issue of Offshore Energy as it applies to North Carolina.
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16556
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The Carolina Beach Development has taken a big step in developing a Master Development plan to help enrich the natural, cultural and recreational resources of Carolina Beach, North Carolina.
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16562
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Dr. Stan Riggs and his colleagues at East Carolina University have just turned out a first-class study and prognosis on North Carolina's coast. In the most recent piece, NORTH CAROLINA'S COAST IN CRISIS: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE, Riggs has gone from observing to predicting--the seas are rising at an increasingly rapid rate and believes the Outer Banks will become a series of islands rather than a narrow barrier island.
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16567
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The issue of drilling for oil and gas off the coast of North Carolina coast has a long history. But despite this history, one question remains: is there sufficient quantities of oil off the North Carolina coast to make its recovery commercially attractive?
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16579
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Although everyone knows that North Carolina has a long sea coast, most people are unaware that the State has a navy. Sometimes referred to as the North Carolina Department of Transportation Ferry Division, the navy has 24 ships, a shipyard, a dredge, tugs, barges, military-type landing craft and various support vessels.
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16588
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Leutze discusses the turmoils that are faced by the North Carolina coast such as lack of funding for coastal programs such as beach nourishment.
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16593
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When the concept of East Coast port development came into fashion years ago, North Carolina started thinking about a new international port at Southport. But given problems with legislation and funding, planning for ports such as Southport, have been lack luster.
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16605
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Getting to be a ship's captain is not easy. It takes years of experience at sea; a whole series of promotions along the way, from able-bodied seaman, to mate, then on to master and then captain. At each step, there are manuals to be studied, practicums to be passed and tests to be taken. And then you have to wait for a position to open up. It doesn't sound like a route for the impatient or the uncommitted. But two driven women have succeeded to the rank of ferry boat captains in North Carolina's Navy, despite all the odds.
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16608
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Leutze discusses how North Carolina state budget cuts affect programs such as The Nature Conservancy (TNC).
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16631
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With the worry of coastal erosion along North Carolina's coast, the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission (CRC) has been discussing ocean setback rules and the use of sandbags.
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