Court Records Show PA-DEP Uses Incomplete Air Pollution Data

October 21, 2014

Pennsylvania studies on shale-site air emissions incomplete, according to court documents From an Article by Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, October 20, 2014 Three widely cited state studies of air emissions at Marcellus Shale gas development sites in Pennsylvania omit measurements of key air toxics and calculate the health risks of just two of more [...]

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The Coal and Gas Industries Continue to Damage our Land and the Public Health

October 20, 2014

Wake Up West Virginia Before It ‘s Too Late! Commentary by Maria Gunnoe, Regional Coordinator with OVEC, October 18, 2014 It seems to me that someone somewhere would see the errors in the ways of the gas and coal industries in the Appalachian region.  Surely the people that live with these nightmares aren’t the only [...]

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Gas Industry Truck Issues Surface on Roads and Bridges in PA and WV

October 19, 2014

Marcellus Shale truck safety summit proposed in Pennsylvania From an Article by Emily Petsko, Washington PA Observer-Reporter, October 14, 2014 Photo: Pieces of a damaged section of Pollocks Mill Bridge in Jefferson Township (PA) fall away as an overweight tanker truck is extracted from it recently. Photo by Tara Kinsell / Observer-Reporter.  Order a Print Two [...]

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Sunday School 108 — Human Activities are Destroying the Earth’s Diverse Life-Support Systems

October 18, 2014

World Wildlife Fund’s state of the planet report reveals alarming and avoidable biodiversity loss From an Article by Andrea Germanos, staff writer, Common Dreams, September 30, 2014 Human activity has brought the planet’s life-supporting systems to the brink of tipping points, causing an “alarming” loss in biodiversity and critical threats to the services nature has [...]

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Major Study of the Environmental Costs of Fracking

October 17, 2014

The Environmental Costs and Benefits of Fracking This  new study has been published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 39, pages 327 to 362, 2014. Authors — Robert B. Jackson (Stanford), Avner Vengosh (Duke),  J. William Carey (Los Alamos),  Richard J. Davies (Newcastle UK),  Thomas H. Darrah (Ohio State),  Francis O’Sullivan (MIT), [...]

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Marcellus Gas Well Pad Fire in Tyler County During Flowback Operations

October 16, 2014

Ten Local Fire Departments Extinguish Fire on Noble Energy’s Shirley 1 Pad From an Article by Fred Connors, Wheeling Intelligencer, October 16, 2014 Alma, WV – Fire departments from four counties responded to a gas well pad fire Wednesday on WV Route 18 near Centerville. Tyler County EMA Director Tom Cooper said today, Tyler County [...]

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Small Study May Have Big Answers on Health Risks of Fracking’s Open Waste Ponds

October 15, 2014

A first of a kind study from West Virginia will help Americans inside the fracking boom understand the dangers of exposure to VOCs Article by Zahra Hirji, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer, Inside Climate News, October 10, 2014 When Mary Rahall discovered that oil and gas waste was being stored in open-air ponds less than [...]

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Atlantic Coast Pipeline – Major Topic for Landowners in WV & VA

October 14, 2014

Two meetings held in central WV on right-of–way for the huge gas pipeline project Original Article by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer of Lewis County, WV The second of a matched pair of meetings for those interested in fracking in Central West Virginia was held, September 17, 2014 at West Virginia Wesleyan College, by Dominion [...]

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NY Seneca Lake at Risk of Gas Storage Eruptions

October 13, 2014

FERC Approves NY Methane Storage Project at Seneca Lake From a News Article by Peter Mantius, Natural Resources News Service, October 3, 2014 Brushing aside warnings of dangerous geological risk, federal regulators say construction can start immediately on a methane gas storage project next to Seneca Lake that has galvanized opposition from wine and tourism [...]

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West Virginians Join Global Frackdown-3 on October 11th

October 12, 2014

Lewis County Lavender Farm Hosts Global Frackdown News Report by Marisa Matyola, WBOY 12 News, October 11, 2014 Weston, WV – Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” has gained popularity over recent years, and continues to spark debate. October 11 marked “The Global Frackdown“, an international day of action initiated by Food & Water Watch to ban [...]

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