Monday, February 10, 2014

USA, Virginia:

Virginia County Asks State Attorney General to Drill into Geothermal Law (Kingsport Times News)

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Wise County officials J. Jack Kennedy and Doug Mullins Jr. are looking deep — very deep — into unsettled law when it comes to what is underneath the U.S. state of Virginia, particularly a future potential for development of geothermal energy resources.

Kennedy, Wise County’s clerk of circuit court, and Mullins, the county’s commissioner of revenue, have forwarded a statutory request to Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring seeking a formal opinion “relating to geothermal energy and its interrelationship with Virginia real estate and taxation law.”

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