5.5 Energy Production and Mining
Threat Level Very High High
Scientifc Name Noturus gilberti
Common Name
Orangefn Madtom Sharpnose Darter
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Percina oxyrhynchus
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REPTILE Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus
Eastern Slender Glass Lizard
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Ophisaurus mimicus SNAIL (TERRESTRIAL) Infectarius verus
Mimic Glass Lizard
a snail
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5.5 Energy Production and Mining Tis category addresses threats from production of nonbiological resources related to exploring for, developing, and producing energy and mining resources. Resources include oil and gas drilling on land and in ocean waters; coal and gold mines; and rock, sand, and phosphate quarries. Renewable resources also fall under this category, such as hydropower and emerging technologies associated with solar farms, windmills, tidal wave energy capture, and geothermal power production. (Salafsky et al. 2008) Renewable energy is defned by NC General Statute (G.S.) 62-133.8(a)(7) and (8) and North Carolina has a Renewable Energy and Energy Efciency Portfolio Standard (REPS) that was passed into law in 2007 (Session Law 2007-397, Senate Bill 3). Tis standard requires all investor-owned utilities to reach 12.5% renewable energy production by 2021. Tere is the potential for future reduction of this target. Rural electric cooperatives and municipal electric suppliers have a 10% REPS requirement (NC Renewable Energy and Energy Efciency Portfolio Standard [REPS] 2007) . Renewable energy facilities include those that generate electric power using renewable energy resources, combined heat and power systems, and solar thermal energy facilities. Solar electric, solar thermal, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and ocean current or wave energy resources are considered renewable energy resources. Another example of a renewable energy resource covered under the REPS includes biomass or biofuels, which use agricultural waste, animal waste, wood waste, spent pulping liquors, combustible residues, combustible liquids, combustible gases, energy crops, or landfll methane for energy production. Information about other renewable energy resources covered by the REPS is available online from the NC Utilities Commission website: http:// www.ncuc.commerce.state.nc.us/reps/reps.htm.
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2015 NC Wildlife Action Plan
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