Cost of Atlantic Coast Pipeline Estimated Now at $6.5 Billion

February 22, 2018

Escalating Cost of ACP Pipeline Now Estimated at $6.5 Billion By John Downey, Charlotte Business Journal, February 20, 2018 Duke Energy Corp. CEO Lynn Good says the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline could now cost as much as $6.5 billion to complete — about 30% more than estimated when the project was first proposed just three-and-a-half [...]

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Action Alert: Keep Protective Pollution Control Standards for the Ohio River

February 21, 2018

Comment Period for Pollution Control Standards for the Ohio River ACTION ALERT from the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, February 20, 2018 The Ohio River serves as a 256-mile border between West Virginia and Ohio. In this photo, the left bank is Chesapeake, Ohio and the right bank is Huntington, West Virginia. The mighty Ohio River [...]

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Queen Elizabeth Seriously Concerned About Plastic Wastes in the Environment

February 20, 2018

Queen bans plastic straws and bottles from royal properties From an Article via Lazer Tecnologia, February 12, 2018 Queen Elizabeth has long expressed admiration for David Attenborough, an environmentalist with a track record of creating handsome, compelling movies about our planet. Julian Kirby, campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said: “Blue Planet’s reach now extends [...]

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XTO Timeline Unknown For Capping of Blown Well in Upper Ohio Valley

February 19, 2018

XTO Offers to Provide Hotel Stay and Toilet Paper to Residents while Gas Well Burns From an Article by Shelley Hanson, Wheeling News-Register, February 18, 2018 Powhatan Point, OH — Debris must be cleared from the site of a well pad explosion before work can begin to cap a leaking natural gas well in Powhatan [...]

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Climate Change Requires that Alternative Fuels Replace Fossil Fuels

February 18, 2018

UPDATE: Act Now to Get Us Off Fossil Fuels From an Article by Winona Hauter, Food & Water Watch, Original Date: May 11, 2017 It seems that every day a news story brings home the reality of climate change caused by global warming: massive ice sheets cleaving off of Antarctica, more frequent dangerous wildfires, and [...]

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The Disposal of Fracking Waste Includes Radioactive Material

February 17, 2018

Fracking Waste Disposal: Still A Hot Mess in KY, WV, PA, OH, etc. From an Article by Mary Meehan, Ohio Valley ReSource, February 14, 2018 The slogan for Estill County is “where the bluegrass kisses the mountains.” But since 2015 the county, population 15,000, is widely known as the place where radioactive material generated by [...]

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Suspension of Federal Law Given to Dominion Energy for ACP Pipeline

February 16, 2018

Atlantic Coast Pipeline Suspends the Law By Beth Little, Mountain State Sierran, Volume 44, Number 2, Spring 2018 The Atlantic Coast Pipeline could not be built through the Monongahela National Forest without violating the law, so the law has been suspended. I will explain. I say “suspended” because the amendments to the forest’s Land and [...]

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XTO Fracked Gas Well Fire Burning in Ohio Valley South of Wheeling, WV

February 15, 2018

Evacuations underway after Powhatan gas well catches fire From a News Report by D.K. Wright, WTRF News 7, February 15, 2018 UPDATE: XTO Energy will be bringing in a well control team from Texas after a “loss of containment” resulting in a gas well fire Thursday morning in Powhatan, OH. Officials reportedly went door to [...]

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Resistance is Building to Fracking in the Pittsburgh Suburbs

February 15, 2018

Pittsburgh Suburbs Decide as Fracking Comes Near: Welcome it, or Resist? From an Article by Reid Frazier, The Allegheny Front, February 9, 2018 Michael Thomas didn’t think the Marcellus shale industry, with its multi-acre well pads and large drilling operations, would come to the Pittsburgh suburb of Plum. But then one day last summer, it [...]

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Greenland & Antarctic Melting Ice Sheets Increasing Sea Level Rise

February 14, 2018

Satellites show warming is accelerating sea level rise From an Article by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press, February 12, 2018 WASHINGTON (AP) — Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows. At the current rate, the world’s oceans on average will be [...]

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