Tree Setting Becoming a Symbol of Pipeline Resistance in WV & VA

March 3, 2018

Pipeline protesters are sitting in trees along its route in an effort to stop construction From an Article by Laurence Hammack, Roanoke Times, February 28, 2018 Chainsaw crews are cutting trees in Giles County, clearing a path for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. On a ridgetop high above them, protestors are waiting. Since Monday, two self-described [...]

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Mega Cracker Complexes Under Study for Gulf Coast and Ohio Valley

March 2, 2018

Phillips 66 eyes second mega cracker for CP Chem joint venture From an Article by Heather Doyle, PetroChemical Update, February 22, 2018 As natural gas liquids (NGL) growth accelerates in the US, the feedstock advantage will likely fuel additional investment decisions for mega projects along the Gulf Coast and Northeast, Phillips 66 executives said. U.S. [...]

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Understanding and Planning for the Future are Necessary

March 1, 2018

So what’s to become of us all? Essay by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV Predicting the future is the stuff of dreams and certain kinds of religion. There are too many unforeseen factors for rational analysis, but rational analysis can point directions. This is an attempt to point out the most likely [...]

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Over Fifty (50) Groups Claim FERC has Misused “Eminent Domain”

February 28, 2018

Bold Alliance Seeks Federal Court Hearing for Constitutional Challenge to FERC’s Abuse of Eminent Domain for Pipeline Permits From Carolyn Reilly, Bold Alliance, February 26, 2018 Washington D.C. — Bold Alliance and a collective of more than 50 landowners in the Appalachia region have filed a motion asking a federal court to schedule a date [...]

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Breaking News — Teachers Win 5% Raise as Strike Ends

February 28, 2018

After Four Days, West Virginia Teachers Settle Strike for a 5% Raise and a Promise to Evaluate Benefits Plan Breaking News from The 74 Million, February 27, 2018 Update: At a press conference Tuesday night, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced an end to the four-day teachers’ strike that had closed schools across the state. [...]

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WV Governor Planning Special Session at Legislature for ‘Grand Bargain’

February 27, 2018

Justice promotes grand bargain on teacher pay and natural gas drilling From an Article by Brad McElhinney, WV MetroNews, February 26, 2018 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice, who has EQT board member Bray Cary as a volunteer on his staff, today promoted a grand bargain on natural gas drilling and teacher pay — frustrating [...]

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Marcellus Drilling, Fracking and Pipelines Threaten WV Residents

February 26, 2018

Natural gas pipelines, fracking threaten West Virginians By Barbara Daniels, Letter to the Editor, Charleston Gazette, January 20, 2018 An (unusual) Tufts University economic analysis of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Atlantic Coast Pipeline overturns almost everything pipeline companies and government officials are telling us. Counter to loudly proclaimed manufacturing jobs and cheaper electricity rates, [...]

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Powhatan Fracked Well Fire is Out but Gas & Liquids are Escaping Under Pressure

February 25, 2018

Weather conditions slow operations to contain Powhatan well From WTRF News 7, Wheeling, WV, February 24, 2018 POWHATAN POINT, Ohio ——————————————- UPDATE 2/24: XTO Energy’s well control team continues working to control the well while monitoring weather conditions to ensure safe operations as rain is expected throughout the day, according to XTO Energy officials. Worker [...]

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Legal Challenge to Stay the Army Corps of Engineers Permit for MVP

February 24, 2018

ICWA Joins With Other Clean Water Advocates to Ask Judges to Halt Fracked Gas Pipeline Mountain Valley Pipeline is Ineligible for Streamlined Stream Crossing Permit, Coalition Says Press Release of Indian Creek Watershed Association, February 23, 2018 RICHMOND, VA — Today, a coalition of clean water advocates asked the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to [...]

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“Tax Our Gas” and Fund Our Educators in West Virginia

February 23, 2018

Let’s Fully Fund Education Now —Tax That Fellow Behind the Tree & Me By Duane Nichols, Retired Chemical Engineer, Stewartstown, WV This is the Second Day of work stoppage protest by the WV educators. This is important because we ALL benefit from a strong and comprehensive system of education. Education in West Virginia is under [...]

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