The Boom-Proof Economy: How to Handle a Fracking Bust?

January 18, 2015

The boom is becoming a bust; so how to handle this fracking bust? From an Article by Lydia DePillis, Washington Post, January 15, 2015 PHOTO: Workers tap into Marcellus natural gas at an active hydraulic fracking operation outside of Wellsboro, Pa., operated by Shell. This rig is the only Shell crew operating in the area. [...]

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Nova Chemicals Using Ethane from Marcellus Shale Region

January 17, 2015

Nova Chemicals updating neighbours on pipeline plan at Sarnia (Canada) From a Press Release of Nova Chemicals, Sarnia Observer (Canada), January 15, 2015 Nova Chemicals is considering a four-kilometre pipeline project to connect its Corunna petrochemical facility to a secondary feedstock source. The pipeline is one of the proposed projects the company plans to provide [...]

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Observations from the Marcellus Shale Fracking Field

January 16, 2015

Perspectives on Fracking in Central West Virginia Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV By luck of the draw, I happen to be in a good spot to observe activity in the Southern Marcellus area. The farm I have lived on for over 50 years is about two [...]

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WV Surface Owners Rights Organization in Concerned about Pipelines

January 15, 2015

WV-SORO Recommends Gathering Information and Letter Writing >>> Community Meeting on Proposed Pipelines This Saturday, January 17 at Jackson’s Mill Please join the Greenbrier River Watershed Association this Saturday, January 17 at 2PM at Jackson’s Mill (West Virginia Building) near Weston, WV for an update on the proposed Mountain Valley, Appalachian Connector and Atlantic Coast [...]

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Marcellus Shale Information from WVU Extension Program

January 14, 2015

Marcellus Shale Topics of the WVU Extension Program West Virginia is home of one of the largest Marcellus Shale natural gas deposits on the East Coast. As landowners and community members began asking questions of  WVU Extension agents about this topic, we began our work to learn more, gather experts and create the resources to [...]

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Climate Change Report: WV Highlands “On the Chopping Block”

January 13, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Press Conference: Governor’s Conference Room, State Capitol, Charleston, WV Time and Date: 3 PM, January 13, 2015 West Virginia Highlands “On the Chopping Block” Contact: Tom Rodd, Project Director, Friends of Blackwater, Allegheny Highlands Climate Change Impacts Initiative One day before the West Virginia State Board of Education takes up a controversy over proposed [...]

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Risks of Shale Fracking in West Virgina like New York

January 12, 2015

Risks of shale oil drilling apply in West Virginia, too Op-Ed by Barbara Daniels, Morgantown Dominion Post, Page 2-D, January 11, 2015 On December 17th, joining New Jersey, Quebec, the Delaware River Basin and several nations, and due to much hard evidence presented by the public, New York state switched from a six-year moratorium on [...]

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Economic Non-Impact of Coal & Natural Gas in WV

January 11, 2015

THE STATE OF MY STATE – THE ECONOMIC NON-IMPACT OF COAL & NATURAL GAS IN WEST VIRGINIA From a Post by Sean O’Leary, The State of My State (WV Blog), January 9, 2015 They are assumptions bordering on articles of faith in West Virginia. “As coal goes so goes West Virginia’s economy.” And “West Virginia’s best [...]

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Low Oil Prices, Natural Gas, Alternative Energy and the Future

January 10, 2015

Why low oil prices and what is the future? Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor and Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV The only reason why anyone with an abundant supply of a commodity which concurrently is their primary source of income would keep the price down is to remove or damage a future [...]

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WV Senators Neglect Environment & Promote Eminent Domain for Private Gain

January 9, 2015

WV Senators’ votes not even subject to debate EDITORIAL – Morgantown Dominion Post, January 8, 2015, Page 4-A Capito, Manchin putting Keystone pipeline at the center of nation’s energy policy It’s apparent the new majority in “the world’s greatest deliberative body” has already made up its mind.  As for our state’s two members of the [...]

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