December 1st, 2012 by WCBC Radio
According to the Cumberland Times-News, Maryland’s Marcellus Shale Safe Drilling Initiative Advisory Commission held its first formal vote Friday to unanimously endorse financial safeguards that would pay for drilling-related problems. At the commission's eleventh meeting, the group's first vote also agreed that a minimum amount should be established for a performance bond that would be required of drillers attempting to extract natural gas by what is known as fracking.