Thousands Call on VA Gov. Northam to Protect Virginia Streams from Fracked-Gas Pipelines

March 30, 2018

Event comes on heels of after-hours VA-DEQ announcement to allow MVP construction Press Release from Lara Mack, Appalachian Voices; Jamshid Bahktiari, Chesapeake Climate Action Network; and Kirk Bowers, Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club, March 27, 2018 Richmond, Va. — Citizens representing Virginia landowners, the faith community, scientists, people of color, water protectors and clean [...]

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MVP Pipeline Protesters Use New Tactics of Blocking Road and Pole Sitting

March 29, 2018

Authorities break up Mountain Valley Pipeline protest on mountain road From an Article by Brad McElhinny, WV MetroNews, March 28, 2018 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Authorities broke up a group of protesters who were blocking an access road that was being used for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. A protest that had been going on for about [...]

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Ethane Cracker Chemical Complexes are Very Expensive

March 28, 2018

The Marcellus – Utica Shale Region Could Support 8 Crackers – Why Don’t Companies Build More? From an Article in the Marcellus Drilling News, March 23, 2018 Tom Gellrich, founder of Top Line Analytics–a consultancy focusing on downstream shale gas development like ethane crackers–spoke Wednesday at Kallanish Energy’s “Crackers, Storage & Pipelines 2018” event at [...]

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WVU Journalism Project on Impact of Atlantic Coast Pipeline

March 27, 2018

WVU and GW partner around journalism effort to burst media bubble; will launch Atlantic Coast Pipeline reporting project From the WVU Reed College of Media, Morgantown, March 22, 2018 In a unique effort to burst long-standing “media bubbles,” students and faculty from the West Virginia University Reed College of Media and the George Washington University [...]

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Tr-State Shale Coalition Renews Plans for WV, PA & OH

March 26, 2018

Appalachian states re-up commitment to Tri-State Shale Coalition From an Article by Paul J. Gough, Pittsburgh Business Times, March 21, 2018 An effort started by the governors of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to boost the development of shale gas resources has been extended for another three years. The Tri-State Shale Coalition began life in [...]

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WV Legislature Should Promote Renewable Energy Development

March 25, 2018

Law could foster renewable energy development in Central Appalachia Letter by Joey James and Evan Hansen, Charleston Gazette, March 18, 2018 For many years, private and government forecasts have predicted sharp declines in Central Appalachian coal production in southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. These declines have occurred, largely as predicted, [...]

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NYU Law School to Assist PA, VA, MD in Environmental Protection, WV Not!

March 24, 2018

NYU Law sending free help to 10 Dem AGs for environmental causes; Marcellus Shale group ‘alarmed’ at message From an Article by Nicholas Malfitano, Pennsylvania Record, March 6, 2018 NEW YORK – Democratic state attorneys general, like Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro, are getting free help from New York University School of Law to bolster their environmental [...]

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Methane Showing Up in Atmosphere from Oil & Gas Operations

March 23, 2018

New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas From an Article by Sharon Kelly, DeSmogBlog, January 16, 2018 Over the past few years, natural gas has become the primary fuel that America uses to generate electricity, displacing the long-time king of fossil fuels, coal. In 2019, more than a [...]

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MVP Injunction Denied as Tree Sitting Continues in Monroe County, WV

March 22, 2018

West Virginia judge denies injunction against pipeline protesters in trees From an Article by Joe Dashiell, WHSV News 3, Harrisonburg, VA, March 20, 2018 MONROE COUNTY, W.Va. (WDBJ) — A judge in West Virginia has denied Mountain Valley Pipeline’s request for an injunction against the group sitting in trees to delay the construction of the [...]

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Another Fracked Gas Power Plant (485 MW) Coming to [Eastern] Pennsylvania

March 22, 2018

Proposed natural gas power plant in Birdsboro gets set of permits from PA-DEP From an Article by Scott Blanchard, NPR StateImpact PA, March 2, 2018 The PA Department of Environmental Protection has OK’d several permits for a proposed natural gas power plant in Berks County. The PA DEP said in a news release that it [...]

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