WV Legislature & Power Industry Confound Solar Projects

March 8, 2015

Gov. Tomblin can stop attempt to strangle W.Va. solar industry Letter to the Editor by Bill Howley, Charleston Gazette, March 8, 2015 Things started well. When the West Virginia Legislature repealed the 2009 Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard law early in this year’s session, legislators wisely kept the part of the law that authorized [...]

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US EPA Requires CSX to Clean-Up WV Train Wreck Contamination

March 7, 2015

CSX Ordered to Clean-up the Areas Impacted by WV Train Derailment Press Release, US EPA (David Sternberg), March 6, 2015 Philadelphia, PA - CSX has agreed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up and restore the areas affected by the February 16 train derailment in Mount Carbon, W. Va. Twenty-seven cars derailed from the [...]

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Pair Of Brooke County WV Gas-Fired Power Plants Proposed

March 6, 2015

Beech Bottom plant site near old Wheeling Corrugating Plant location From an Article by Warren Scott, Wheeling Intelligencer, March 4, 2015 Wellsburg, WV – A New York energy company has announced it may build two gas-fired power plants on more than 100 acres north of the former Wheeling Corrugating Plant in Beech Bottom. The Brooke [...]

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WV Newspapers’ Independence in Doubt, Harrison & Preston Counties

March 5, 2015

Newspaper president’s ties to gas industry undermine claims of ‘credibility’ By Michael M. Barrick, Appalachian Chronicle, March 3, 2015 “Good ol’ boys down at the bar Peanuts and politics They think they know it all They don’t know much of nothin’ Even if one of ‘em was to read a newspaper, cover-to-cover That ain’t what’s going [...]

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WV Residents Meet in Lewis County on Large Interstate Pipelines

March 4, 2015

Report on Public Meeting on Proposed Pipelines at Ireland in West Virginia Meeting Summary by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV A citizen’s meeting of persons interested in the location and effects of vast pipeline construction projects proposed for West Virginia was held at the community building of Ireland, [...]

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FERC Selected Tetra Tech for Pipeline Environmental Study in Spite of Shale Coalition Membership

March 3, 2015

PennEast natural gas pipeline environmental study firm’s connection to shale coalition is questioned From an Article by Keith Brown, Times of Trenton, NJ, NJ.com, February 28, 2015 The federal agency tasked with reviewing the proposed $1.2 billion PennEast natural gas pipeline has hired a company that is a paid member of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, [...]

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“Forced Pooling” is the Taking of Personal Property Rights

March 2, 2015

Oil and gas industry aims to get its way Guest Commentary by William R. Suan, Morgantown Dominion Post, March 1, 2015 The Marcellus shale once sounded like a financial opportunity that I wanted to be part of; however, it seems we now have an industry out of control using its money, lobbyists and political muscle [...]

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Our Soils are Being Damaged and Our Air & Water are Being Impacted Rapidly

March 1, 2015

Let us count the ways energy production causes damages Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV I remember a Soil Conservation pamphlet I saw as a child called “6,000 years of civilization.” The thesis was that most of the civilizations before the Romans, and the Romans, too, had [...]

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WV-DEP & Legislators are Gutting our Water Protection Laws

February 28, 2015

It’s Not Water Under the Bridge Editorial, Morgantown Dominion Post, February 27, 2015 You better believe history has a way of repeating itself. Take for instance our state leaders, and agencies, long history of allowing industry to have its way with our natural resources. Never mind the collateral damage done to our environment, especially our [...]

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ACP & MVP Pipeline Routes of Concern in West Virginia

February 27, 2015

Seven pipeline routes identified through Pocahontas County From an Article by Geoff Hamill, Pocahontas Times, February 25, 2015 A Dominion Resources map shows a preferred and five alternative Atlantic Coast pipeline routes through the Monongahela National Forest (MNF) and Pocahontas County. Dominion has stated its intent to survey just the preferred route (shown in blue) [...]

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