Super-Size Well Pads — Imagine 40 Fracked Wells on One Pad?

January 25, 2018

These days, oil and gas companies are super-sizing their well pads From an Article by ANYA LITVAK, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 15, 2018 Dave Elkin remembers in the earlier days of the Marcellus when EQT drilled three wells from a single well pad and it was considered a technological marvel. “The greatest thing since sliced bread,” [...]

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Red Mountain Energy Explosion at Gas Well in Oklahoma Kills Five (5)

January 24, 2018

Sheriff: Bodies of all 5 missing workers located after Oklahoma gas well explosion From an Article by Clayton Youngman & Jessica Remer, KTUL News, January 23, 2018 QUINTON, Okla. (KTUL) — Pittsburg County officials say the bodies of all five workers missing after a gas well explosion Monday morning have been located. Sheriff Chris Morris [...]

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Antero Resources Active in N.W. WV & Eastern OH

January 23, 2018

Antero Resources to drill 140 to 150 wells in 2018 From an Article of Kallanish Energy, January 19, 2018 Denver-based Antero Resources intends to complete 140 to 150 wells in the Appalachian Basin in 2018. That includes 120 to 125 wells in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and 20 to 25 wells [...]

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Delaware River Basin Seeks to Protect Water Quality from Fracking

January 22, 2018

“Another chance to comment on gas drilling issue” Article from The News Eagle, Trenton, NJ, January 14, 2018 WEST TRENTON, N.J. – The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) on January 8 announced that the period for written comment on proposed regulations regarding hydraulic fracturing activities in the basin has been extended from Feb. 28 to [...]

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Lancaster County Nuns Continue Opposition to Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline

January 21, 2018

Nuns come to Philly to fight gas pipeline, assert religious freedom From an Article by Frank Kummer, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 19, 2018 A group of Roman Catholic nuns had a tough time in court Friday morning fighting a gas pipeline buried under their Lancaster County cornfield, so afterward they took their case to a more [...]

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Protest Marches & Civil Disobedience Raise Awareness for Major Issues

January 20, 2018

Are Mass Protests and Civil Disobedience Still Effective? From an Essay by Micah Fink, Alternet, January 18, 2018 As millions prepare to return to the streets on Saturday, January 20, for a reprise of last year’s Women’s March — the largest mass protest in American history — people of conscience are actively debating critical questions [...]

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Action Alert: Save Our State Parks From Logging

January 19, 2018

WV Governor Wants to Open WV State Parks for Commercial Logging From the WV Rivers Coalition, January 16, 2018 A bill to allow commercial logging in West Virginia’s State Parks, Senate Bill 270, was introduced in the WV Legislature at the request of Governor Justice. This bill would end an 80-year ban on logging in [...]

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Agreement for Radiation Monitoring at New WV Landfill

January 19, 2018

Agreement Reached on West Virginia Fracking Landfill From an Article by the Associated Press, WV Public Broadcasting, December 19, 2017 Environmentalists have reached an agreement with Antero Treatment that calls for monitoring for radioactivity and bromide around its landfill in northern West Virginia that takes the waste from recycled groundwater used in hydraulic fracturing for [...]

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FERC Rejects Mon Power Request to Transfer Pleasants Power Plant

January 18, 2018

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission denies FirstEnergy’s request to transfer Pleasants plant ownership From the Press Release, West Virginians for Energy Freedom, January 13, 2018 A federal decision put an end to FirstEnergy Corp.’s bad deal for its West Virginia customers, thousands of whom had protested the company’s plan. On January 12th, the Federal Energy Regulatory [...]

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Fourth Report of the Public Water System Supply Study Commission

January 17, 2018

January 11, 2018 The Honorable Mitch Carmichael, President, West Virginia Senate The Honorable Tim Armstead, Speaker, WV House of Delegates Members of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance RE: Public Water System Supply Study Commission Report and Recommendations Following the water crisis of 2014, the unanimous passage of SB373 established the Public Water System [...]

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