The World’s Largest White Oak Tree on Mingo-Logan County Line in WV

October 11, 2019

The Famous Mingo White Oak Tree of West Virginia Article by Robert Beanblossom, Last Revised on October 20, 2010 The Mingo Oak stood near the head of Trace Fork of Pigeon Creek near the Logan-Mingo county line. A monarch of the mountains, the tree was reported to be the largest white oak in the world. [...]

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Ewing Sarcoma and Other Ailments More Common than Known to Penna. Aurhorities

October 10, 2019

Washington County family members tell Penna. state to ‘fix’ their cancer study From an Article by Reid Frazier, StateImpact Penna., October 8, 2019 The families of several people diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in one Washington County School District told state health officials to update their data at a public hearing Monday [...]

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UPDATE: Advice from WV Surface Owners Rights Organization

October 9, 2019

IF YOU GET AN EQT CLASS ACTION BENEFIT NOTICE, DO NOT SIGN FOR THE “OPTIONAL POOLING BENEFITS!” West Virginia Surface Owners’ Rights Organization, October 7, 2019 Some 9500 people are getting a “Tawney [Non-]Compliant Flat Rate Claim Form and Benefit Notice” regarding the settlement of the royalty class action case of Kay Co., v. EQT [...]

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Pipeline Projects Retain Right of ‘eminent domain’ Despite Reasonable Efforts to Overturn It

October 8, 2019

Supreme Court denies appeal of eminent domain for Mountain Valley Pipeline From an Article by Laurence Hammack, Roanoke Times, October 7, 2019 The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will not hear an appeal from a group of Southwest Virginia landowners whose property was taken, before they were paid, for a controversial natural gas pipeline. [...]

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US Supreme Court Consolidates Two Cases for Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP)

October 7, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Atlantic Coast Pipeline case From an Article by Sarah Vogelsong, Mercury News, October 4, 2019 The U.S. Supreme Court announced this morning that it will review a decision by a federal court of appeals that threw up a major barrier to construction of a 600-mile natural gas pipeline being [...]

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Penna. Attorney General Investigating PA-DEP over Marcellus Fracking Regulation

October 6, 2019

PA-DEP “lawyers-up” as grand jury investigation into shale gas moves forward From an Article by Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, October 2, 2019 The Pennsylvania state Department of Environmental Protection has hired outside legal counsel to deal with the state attorney general’s criminal investigations of “environmental crimes” involving the shale gas industry in southwestern Pennsylvania. [...]

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WV Attorney General Leading Effort to Influence US Supreme Court in Fracked Gas Pipeline Case

October 5, 2019

Dominion buys pipeline support at Supreme Court through GOP Attorneys General From an Article by Kelly Roache, Energy & Policy Institute, October 3, 2019 With the US Supreme Court poised to decide this month whether it will review a ruling key to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s future, majority-owner of the project Dominion Energy has received [...]

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Flaring of Natural Gases is Gross Insult to the Earth’s Greenhouse Effect

October 4, 2019

Shell forced to burn off gas it cannot sell From an Article by Angie Brown, BBC Scotland, October 2, 2019 Shell has been forced to burn off “significant” volumes of ethane because it cannot sell it to a firm that has temporarily shut down its plant with flaring issues in Fife. Residents living near the [...]

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Proposed PILOT Agreement is Gross Giveaway to Longview Power II

October 3, 2019

Morgantown Already has Three Polluting Electric Power Plants To the Editor, Morgantown Dominion Post, October 2, 2019 The plan to expand the Longview Power Plant with a gas-fired plant (Dominion Post — September 13) is disturbing. The company wants the Monongalia County Commission to approve a huge tax break, a PILOT (Payment In Lieu Of [...]

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Political Influence Continues at Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

October 2, 2019

FERC Warns A Gas Pipeline Attack Could Cause Mass Blackouts From an Article by Tsvetana Paraskova, OilPrice.com, September 24, 2019 An attack on a single natural gas pipeline in the United States could lead to mass blackouts, Neil Chatterjee, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), told CNN Business, discussing America’s energy infrastructure in [...]

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