NRDC Report Investigates Fracking, Wastewater & Drinking Water

May 14, 2019

Report: Fracking could put drinking water at risk From an Article by Kate Mishkin, HD Media, May 12,2019 State and federal regulators are skirting their obligations to protect West Virginia’s drinking water from the effects of fracking, a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council says. The report, made public this week, examines the way [...]

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Why Not Store Highly Volatile Ethane in Caverns Under West Virginia?

May 13, 2019

Appalachian Storage Hub and the Elephant in the Room Article by Jim Kotcon, Conservation Chair, Sierra Club, Morgantown, WV From: Mountain State Sierran, Volume 45, Number 2, Summer 2019 The Appalachian Storage Hub (ASH), sometimes called the Appalachian Storage and Trading Hub, is a proposal for underground storage of various natural gas byproducts that could [...]

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UNITED NATIONS Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

May 12, 2019

The Earth is Eden no more! Essay by Thomas E. Lovejoy, Science Advances, May 10, 2019 Thomas Lovejoy, Univ. Professor, Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030 REFERENCE: Science Advances, 06 May 2019: Vol. 5, no. 5, eaax7492; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax7492 The first official report of the Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and [...]

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Mother’s Day Potluck Against Pipelines in Summers County, WV

May 11, 2019

What: Mother’s Day Pie Potluck, and Proclamation Where: BlackBerry Springs Farm, 437 Blackberry Spg., Alderson, WV. Summers county! We are hoping that these will pop up all over the place. When: Sunday, May 12, 3:33 PM Who: EVERYONE who has a mother and cares about water and resists pipelines On Sunday, May 12 at 3:33 [...]

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Legal Confrontations Over Health Impacts of Drilling & Fracking Continue

May 10, 2019

Judge rules Range Resources can’t depose Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporters or see their notes From an Article by Don Hopey and David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 7, 2019 A Washington County judge has denied a request by Range Resources Appalachia LLC to subpoena and depose two Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporters and a former editor who are attempting [...]

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Nine Organizations Say: “It’s Time to Take Back Our Dominion” from Dominion Energy!

May 9, 2019

Coalition of unlikely allies calls on state to break up utilities, deregulate energy From an Article by Gregory S. Scheidner, Washington Post, May 7, 2019 Richmond, VA — Nine organizations from across the ideological spectrum have formed an unlikely alliance to call for changes in the way Virginians get their electricity, including breaking up the [...]

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Researchers Now Have Even More Proof That Air Pollution Can Cause Dementia

May 8, 2019

A Mother Jones investigation prompted the study that turned up the most convincing evidence to date From an Article by Aaron Reuben, Mother Jones Magazine, May 2019 A few years ago I stood in a cramped trailer beside the busy 110 freeway in Los Angeles as researchers at the University of Southern California gathered soot [...]

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WV Data on Fracking Risks to Drinking Water are Elusive

May 7, 2019

Report: Fracking could put drinking water at risk From an Article by Kate Mishkin, Charleston Gazette – Mail, May 2, 2019 State and federal regulators are skirting their obligations to protect West Virginia’s drinking water from the effects of fracking, a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council says. The report, made public this week, [...]

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Antero Resources Continues Drilling, Fracking and Delivering Natural Gas & N.G. Liquids

May 6, 2019

Antero benefiting from Mariner East 2 liquids line From an Article of Kallanish News Service, May 3, 2019 First-quarter net daily natural gas-equivalent production for Antero Resources averaged 3.10 billion cubic feet-equivalent per day (Bcfe/d), a 30% increase over Q1 2018, as the company took advantage of the Mariner East 2 liquids pipeline. The Colorado-based [...]

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Earthquakes are Triggered Well Beyond Frack Fluid Injection Zones

May 5, 2019

Computer model and field experiment data suggest a new link between subsurface injections and earthquake swarms From an Article of Tufts University, Science Daily, May 2, 2019 Using data from field experiments and modeling of ground faults, researchers at Tufts University have discovered that the practice of subsurface fluid injection used in ‘fracking’ and wastewater [...]

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