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10075
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During the oil shortage panic of the 1970s, large and small oil companies began searching all over America for possible oil wells, including along North Carolina's coastline in Dare, Currituck, Camden, Hyde, and Tyrrell Counties. Small communities like Stumpy Point experienced a boom in real estate prices with the rumors of possible natural gas. Most rumors proved false and the wells unprofitable.
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7862
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When Pelham Humphries left the Appalachians in 1829, his family was content to forget about him. In 1835, he was killed in Texas by his friend William Inglish and suspicion arose that Inglish, through forgery, transferred Humphries's land into his own name. Inglish sold part of the land in the 1860s. But after oil was discovered in 1901, the ownership of the oil rich land was debated for years and several law suits were filed. By the 1980s the status of the land was still not determined.
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26637
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The U.S. Department of Interior has proposed full oil field development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The oil would be sold to Pacific Rim countries for short-term profits, and potentially destroy wildlife habitat.
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