Shall We Pay $470 Million for the Pleasants Power Plant?

September 4, 2017

WV PSC testimony: Pleasants Plant deal could cost ratepayers $470 million From an Article by Max Garland, Charleston Gazette-Mail, August 27, 2017 A proposed deal for FirstEnergy subsidiaries to acquire a coal-fired power plant would likely cost customers $470 million over the next 15 years, according to testimony from an energy and environmental consultant filed [...]

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OMG Climate Change is Affecting Weather Worldwide

September 3, 2017

Weather all over the world shows climate change impacts Essay by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Jane Lew, WV We have heard about Houston and the Harvey Hurricane, in fact it has occupied the news almost to the exclusion of everything else some days. But it isn’t alone. Harvey made landfall the 25th of August, [...]

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YOU! Need to Notify the WV Public Service Commission

September 2, 2017

Dear Friends, Concerned About the Cost of Electricity, Show up and speak out to prevent West Virginians from having to bail out FirstEnergy and its shareholders! The Public Service Commission (PSC) of West Virginia has scheduled three public comment hearings on FirstEnergy Corp.’s proposed transfer of the Pleasants Power Plant to Mon Power and Potomac [...]

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Serious Environmental Issues with Big Pipelines in West Virginia

September 1, 2017

Getting Real with Pipeline Disasters in West Virginia From an Article by Traci Hickson, Earthworks, August 3, 2017 PHOTO: An area below compressor station construction site related to Rover Pipeline, where WV-DEP inspectors say concentrated sediment runoff overwhelms the control fences that are being used by the company. If you think silt fences will hold [...]

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Mon Power Playing Expensive Games in West Virginia?

August 31, 2017

Why pay higher electric bills so the utility can net more profit? Letter to Editor of Morgantown Dominion Post, Jim Kotcon, August 27, 2017 Your August 21st editorial criticizing the proposal by Gov. Jim Justice to use taxpayer dollars to provide a $15 per ton subsidy for coal was correct. Gov. Justice may have changed [...]

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Our Energy Policies for Oil & Gas are Severely Flawed

August 30, 2017

The Rush to Develop Oil and Gas We Don’t Need Opinion – Editorial by Jim Lyons, New York Times, August 28, 2017 Imagine the businessman Donald Trump putting his real estate up for sale when the market was near the bottom. That’s the equivalent of what President Trump is doing with the oil and gas [...]

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Russian LNG Tanker Sails Thru Arctic Without Icebreaker

August 29, 2017

Climate change has thawed Arctic enough for $300m gas tanker to travel at record speed through northern sea route From an Article by Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, August 24, 2017 A Russian tanker has travelled through the northern sea route in record speed and without an icebreaker escort for the first time, highlighting how climate [...]

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Logically We Would Stop LNG Exports

August 28, 2017

Manufacturers urge Perry to slow LNG exports From an Article by James Osborne, Houston Chronicle, August 16, 2017  A lobbying group representing U.S. manufactures says the Department of Energy’s continued approval of new LNG export terminals could significantly deplete American natural gas supplies within a little more than three decades. In a letter to Energy [...]

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WV-DEP May Have Messed Over 401 Certification for MVP

August 27, 2017

WV DEP ignored water quality in MVP permit, court filing argues From an Article by Ken Ward, Jr., Charleston Gazette, August 16, 2017 WV Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Austin Caperton and his staff ignored serious threats to water quality when they approved a West Virginia permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, lawyers for environmental [...]

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Harvard Study Confirms: #ExxonKnew and Misled Public About Climate Threat for Decades

August 26, 2017

“ExxonMobil contributed quietly to the science and loudly to raising doubts about it,” researchers conclude From an Article by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, August 23, 2017 Researchers from Harvard studied nearly 200 ExxonMobil communications and concluded that the company actively misled the public about climate change, contradicting findings by even their own scientists. A peer-reviewed study has confirmed [...]

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