The Oil & Gas Industry Should Provide More Support for Education & Environment

August 17, 2018

Let’s Fund PEIA with production tax on natural gas extraction Letter to Editor, Charleston Gazette (Opinion Section), August 4, 2018 Last month, our elected officials were hard at work to fund the Public Employee Insurance Agency (PEIA). West Virginia Senate President Mitch Carmichael led 22 senators to vote down a proposal from Sen. Richard Ojeda [...]

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Grandma Puts Car on Blocks Before MVP Pipeline in Monroe County WV

August 16, 2018

Grandmother arrested after blocking pipeline construction in Ford Pinto From an Article by Aris Folley, The Hill News, August 3, 2018 A 64-year-old woman was arrested earlier this week after she reportedly blockaded herself into a 1971 Ford Pinto and prevented Mountain Valley Pipeline construction in West Virginia. Becky Crabtree, charged with obstruction earlier this [...]

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Pipeline Companies Unsympathetic to Concerned Local Residents

August 15, 2018

North Carolina Law Enforcement Wrong to Target Pipeline Opponents From the Blog of Michael M. Barrick, Appalachian Chronicle, August 14, 2018 It is Duke, Dominion and EQT that are terrorizing people Photo: Myra Bonhage-Hale, then of Alum Bridge, W.Va. holds signs with questions she had for Consol about pipelines. This “activist” eventually moved out of [...]

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ACP and MVP Should Be Permanently Halted — TNC Goes Off the Rails (Again)

August 14, 2018

Response to: “Natural Gas Companies Team With Environmental Group” An article of this title recently ran in the Wheeling Intelligencer. It represents a cave in by a significant environmental group that give the business oriented Intelligencer some thing to brag about. It is unlikely the report, “Improving Steep-Slope Pipeline Construction to Reduce Impacts to Natural [...]

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When the MVP Pipeline Runs Afoul of Government Rules? Authorities Change the Rules

August 13, 2018

FERC halted work on the massive Mountain Valley Pipeline this month after an appeals court ruled that federal agencies neglected to follow environmental protections Excerpt from Article by Kate Mishkin and Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail, and Beena Raghavendran, ProPublica, August 10, 2018 Update, August 10, 9 p.m.: On Friday evening, the Federal Energy [...]

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‘Climate Change … In Real Time’: California’s Frightening Fires Are the Nightmare Scientists Long Predicted

August 12, 2018

Wildfires ravaging the western states have “spawned bizarre pyrotechnics, from firenados to towering pyrocumulus clouds that evoke a nuclear detonation From an Article by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, July 31, 2018 As deadly wildfires continue to rage in California—destroying hundreds of homes, threatening thousands more, and forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate—experts believe [...]

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Considered Opinion on Gas Pipelines and Eminent Domain in WV & VA

August 11, 2018

Eminent Domain, Property Worth & Gas Pipelines Have Become Hot Topics Essay by George Neall, Rockingham County, VA, August 6, 2018 Studies have documented that the construction of gas pipelines can cause the value of properties impacted by the pipelines to decrease an average of more than 30%. Other studies have documented similar decreases in [...]

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Suicide More Likely With Increased Air Pollution Including Particulate Matter

August 10, 2018

Air Pollution and Suicide: Exploring a Potential Risk Factor (Environ Health Perspect; DOI:10.1289/EHP3901) From Nate Seltenrich, Environmental Health Perspectives, July 27, 2018 Could air pollution be a trigger for suicide? Researchers first began asking this question less than a decade ago. Accumulated evidence from around the world now suggests there may well be a connection, [...]

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Public Health Impacts of Fracking are Disastrous

August 9, 2018

Study: Pennsylvanians who live near fracking are more likely to be depressed From an Article by Kristina Marusic, Environmental Health News, July 27, 2018 Stress and depression are higher among those living closest to more and bigger wells. People who live near unconventional natural gas operations such as fracking are more likely to experience depression, [...]

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Central West Virginia Lags Wider Area in Natural Gas Activities

August 8, 2018

WV Close to Building First Natgas-Fired Power Plant From an Article of Marcellus Drilling News, WWW Internet, August 2, 2018 For years Energy Solutions Consortium (ESC) has been trying to build several natural gas-fired electric plants in West Virginia, but have been prevented from doing so by Big Coal lawsuits. It’s understandable that coal doesn’t [...]

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