Our Ocean Water is Warming Rapidly Affecting our Lives & Planet

January 16, 2019

Vanishing coral reefs, intensifying hurricanes, rising seas — severe toll of climate change From an Article by Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone Magazine, January 14, 2019 PHOTO IN ARTICLE: Sea ice melts on the Franklin Strait along the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Climate deniers want you to believe otherwise, but the basic physics [...]

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Grandmother Used 1971 Ford Pinto to Block MVP Pipeline

January 15, 2019

Monroe County grandmother blocks MVP in her first car in WV near VA line From an Article by Matt Combs, Beckley Register-Herald, August 1, 2018 Becky Crabtree, a 64-year-old Monroe County grandmother, was arrested Tuesday for blockading herself in a 1971 Ford Pinto in order to stop construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) near [...]

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Mariner East 2 Pipeline & Marcus Hook Process Facility Update

January 14, 2019

Penna. environmental board slams Sunoco air-quality permit From an Article by Bill Rettew, Delaware County Times, January 10, 2019 PHILADELPHIA >> A state Environmental Hearing Board ruled the state Department of Environmental Protection unlawfully issued an air-quality permit for Sunoco at its Marcus Hook facility. The Marcus Hook facility is the end point for Sunoco [...]

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“Green New Deal” Growing Rapidly in Political Significance

January 13, 2019

UPDATE FROM FOOD & WATER WATCH, January 10, 2019 Dear Friends and Concerned Citizens, Breaking news: We just learned that the new Republican governor in Florida has initiated the process to ban fracking in the state and oppose drilling off Florida’s coasts. (See reference 1 below.) This is huge — it comes after more than [...]

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VA Air Pollution Board Approves Contested Buckingham Compressor Station

January 12, 2019

Hissing, shouts of ‘shame’ as ACP compressor station gets permit By Denise Lavoie, Roanoke Times (Associated Press), January 9, 2019 RICHMOND — A state board approved a contentious plan Tuesday to build a natural gas pipeline station in a historic African-American community, prompting angry shouts of “shame” from more than 200 opponents. The Virginia State [...]

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Exports of Liquified Natural Gas will Damage the U.S. Longterm

January 11, 2019

Reply to Article on Liquified Natural Gas in Forbes Online Magazine (1/8/19) Essay by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer & Retired Chemist, Lewis County, WV “U. S. Liquefied Natural Gas Hits Record Highs Again” (January 8), seems to hit all the bells and whistles for what is essentially a political movement devoid of practicality. See [...]

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Twisted Logic of Dominion Energy Invades WV Legislature

January 10, 2019

Lobbyist: ‘Rogue environmental groups’ standing in way of building pipelines From an Article by Kate Mishkin, Charleston Gazette, January 8, 2019 Construction on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been halted because “rogue environmental groups” are getting in the way, an energy lobbyist told lawmakers Tuesday. “It’s on hold because the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals [...]

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Global LNG Supply/Demand Predicted to Grow Dramatically in Next Few Years

January 9, 2019

Report Sees Massive Increase in LNG Demand From an Article by Marissa Luck, Houston Chronicle, December 17, 2018 PHOTO— A Liberian-flagged tanker named the Maria Energy left Cheniere Energy’s recently completed Port of Corpus Christi facility with the first shipment of liquefied natural gas on the morning of Thursday, December 11, 2018. The shipment marked [...]

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Divesting from Fossil Fuels is Advised Due to Climate Change

January 8, 2019

Divestment is now considered a ‘material risk’ by fossil fuel industries From an Article by Sami Grover, Treehugger Blog, December 19, 2018 It’s been amazing to watch how the fossil fuels divestment movement has grown in a few short years. When Harvard students voted to divest back in 2012, for example, the conversation was mostly [...]

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Impact Fee Disagreement Decided in Favor of Pennsylvania PUC

January 7, 2019

Pennsylvania Set to Collect Millions in Overdue Impact Fees After Court Ruling From an Article by Jamison Cocklin, Natural Gas Intelligence, January 4, 2019 Pennsylvania is preparing to collect a windfall from hundreds of shale gas wells and their operators after the state Supreme Court recently issued an opinion resolving a dispute over the definition [...]

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