West Virginia Will Not Be Better Off With a Petrochemical Complex

June 12, 2018

Petrochemical complex not good for West Virginia By Dustin White, Opinion – Editorial, Charleston Gazette, June 8, 2018 Recently, we’ve been seeing a lot of opinion pieces and articles in the local media telling us how great the proposed Appalachian Storage and Trading Hub will be for our economy. While the name of the proposed [...]

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Sixth Mass Extinction Threatened by Ongoing Land Destruction

June 11, 2018

Land degradation pushing planet towards sixth mass extinction From an Article by Brett Israel, UC Berkeley News, March 29, 2018 Photo: Land degradation, caused by human activities like natural resource extraction and pipeline construction, is a global threat to humans and animals More than 100 experts from 45 countries have published a three-year study of [...]

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The Oceans Protect Us From Global Warming But For How Long?

June 10, 2018

The Oceans, which protect us against climate change, teeter on verge of collapse From Pakalolo, The Daily Kos, June 8, 2018 And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt [...]

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Morality Now Absent in Marcellus Shale Speculation, Land Degradation, & Civil Discontent

June 9, 2018

Fracking, natural capital and morality withdrawn Essay by Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor and Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV Fracking is surely the most widely contentious industrial process today. It beats out use of pesticides, and brings much the same complaints as mountaintop removal to a much wider area. It involves natural capital, the God [...]

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Major New Natural Gas Pipeline Explodes in Marshall County

June 8, 2018

Explosion on Marshall County gas line heard and seen for miles From an Article by Chris Lawrence in WV Metro News, June 07, 2018 Photo: Flames shoot hundreds of feet into the air until gas service was cut off following explosion Thursday morning MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — The cause of a gas line explosion in Marshall [...]

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MVP Protesters Arrested After Locking to Drilling Equipment

June 7, 2018

Police arrest three Monday in Monroe County, WV From an Article by Tommy Lopez, WSLS News 10, June 04, 2018 MONROE CO. WV – Opponents of the Mountain Valley Pipeline tried a new tactic Monday: chaining themselves to construction equipment. West Virginia state police arrested three people who were trying to slow down workers in [...]

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Protests Emphasize Serious Damages of Large Diameter Pipelines thru Mountains & Streams

June 7, 2018

Final Pipeline Protesters Removed from Elevated Perches Article from WV Public Broadcasting, Associated Press, June 2, 2018 The final two protesters who had perched themselves on trees and poles to block construction of a natural gas pipeline through Appalachia have come down. The Roanoke Times reports one protester was forcibly removed Friday and another came [...]

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Livestock Maybe Affected by Fracking via Unknown Mechanism in Fayette County, PA

June 6, 2018

Concerns Linger Over Gas Well Impact on Livestock, Community in Luzerne Township of Fayette County, PA From an Article by Mike Tony, Uniontown Herald Standard, June 3, 2018 Brent Broadwater walks through a pasture of red clover and alfalfa on his East Millsboro angus beef farm and wishes his cows could enjoy it. He knows [...]

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Comments Urgently Needed on ACP & MVP Stream Crossing Permits in Virginia

June 5, 2018

VA DEQ website back up; new comment deadline is June 15, 2018 From the Notice of  Lew Freeman, Allegheny – Blue Ridge Alliance, June 4, 2018 The website of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, which has been down since May 22, is once again operational.  In a notice on the site’s home page (http://www.deq.virginia.gov/) [...]

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Politics Stretches Fracking into Unholy Challenges

June 4, 2018

Fracking, fear and politics — an unholy mix of challenges Opinion – Editorial by S. Thomas Bond, Charleston Gazette, June 1, 2018 Fracking, the most recent method of extracting gas and oil, is the delight of some and the dread of an increasing part of the population. The arguments for it are exactly two in [...]

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