Three Workers Burned in Flash Fire at Stone Energy’s Gas Well Pad

October 30, 2016

Three Workers Hurt in Wetzel County Well Pad Fire From an Article by Staff, Wheeling Intelligencer, October 28, 2016 New Martinsville, WV ­ – Two natural gas well operators and a mechanic suffered burn injuries at the Stone Energy Corp. Howell pad in Wetzel County after a “flash fire” this afternoon, West Virginia Department of [...]

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Any Attempt to Build Our Future on “High-Carbon Growth” will Eventually be Self Destructive

October 29, 2016

Some Ten (10) years now from the Stern report: a low-carbon future is the ‘only one available’ Economist says green development is the only route to global economic growth and points to China leading the world on climate change action From an Article by Damian Carrington, The Guardian, October 27, 2016 Clean, green development is [...]

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Pennsylvania Medical Society Seeks Moratorium on Fracking

October 28, 2016

PA Doctors call for state ban on drilling and fracking From an Article by Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, October 28, 2016 The Pennsylvania Medical Society has called for a moratorium on new shale gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing and is urging the state to establish an independent health registry and start studying fracking’s public [...]

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Oil & Gas Fracking Linked to Cancer-Causing Chemicals

October 27, 2016

Yale researchers have unpacked “the most expansive review of carcinogenicity of hydraulic fracturing-related chemicals in the published literature.” From an Article by Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch.com, October 26, 2016 Yet another study has determined that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, might be a major public health threat. In one of the most exhaustive reviews to date, researchers [...]

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Claiming There is a ‘War on Coal’ is Not Productive

October 26, 2016

WVU professor tells U.S. Senate to stop ‘War on Coal’ talk From an Article by Karen Kidd, WV Record, October 21, 2016 Morgantown, WV – A West Virginia University law professor hopes members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee who heard his testimony earlier this month will stop talking about the so-called “War on Coal” and [...]

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Natural Gas Pipeline Benefit Claims are Mostly Fraudulent

October 25, 2016

Large Diameter Long Distance Gas Pipelines are a Boondoggle by the Gas Companies Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Jane Lew, Lewis County, WV Much about long distance pipelines is fraudulent, as you will see upon examination. Pipelines are an ideal investment for the big banks. The banks are so large it is expensive to break [...]

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You Can Protest the Mountain Valley Pipeline!

October 24, 2016

Fight the Mountain Valley Pipeline! From Appalachian Voices: http://appvoices.org/fracking/fight-mvp/ On September 16, 2016, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline. The 42-inch pipeline would transport natural gas from wells in West Virginia and stretch 301 miles over sensitive agricultural and forest lands — including a [...]

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The Ohio River Needs Attention for the Future

October 23, 2016

Why Reimagining the Ohio River Could be Critical to the Region’s Future From an Article by Julie Grant, The Allegheny Front, October 21, 2016 Interstate cooperation has been crucial to restoring waters in the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay. But so far, there hasn’t been much interest in marshaling a regional effort to improve the [...]

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Frackology: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment

October 22, 2016

BOOK-TV, CSPN2, DISH Channel 211 Sunday, October 23, 2016, 4:15 to 5:15 pm. Wenonah Hauter, “FRACKOLOGY: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment” Published June 6, 2016 by the New Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . League of Women Voters presents: SHALE [...]

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Protecting & Enjoying our Forests of Prime Importance

October 22, 2016

The Japanese practice of ‘forest bathing’ is scientifically proven to improve your health From an Article by Ephrat Livni, Quartz News, October 12, 2016 The tonic of the wilderness was Henry David Thoreau’s classic prescription for civilization and its discontents, offered in the 1854 essay Walden: Or, Life in the Woods. Now there’s scientific evidence [...]

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