Colorado Films Expose Fracking and Promise of Renewable Energy

May 27, 2014

‘Dear Governor Hickenlooper’ Film Exposes Detriments of Fracking and Promise of Renewable Energy From Frack Free Colorado & Protect Our Colorado, EcoWatch.com, May 21, 2014 Dear Governor Hickenlooper, a collection of documentary films directed by a variety of Colorado filmmakers provides a new perspectives on fracking and clean energy through the eyes of scientists, entrepreneurs, artists and families. [...]

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Water Pollution Problems Pervasive with WV Gas Industry

May 26, 2014

WV-DEP files case against area developer From an Article by David Beard, TheDPost.com, May 23, 2014 MORGANTOWN — The state Department of Environmental Protection (WV-DEP) is asking Monongalia County Circuit Court to assess $25,000 per day penalties against a Morgantown developer for alleged environmental violations at a Cheat Lake-area industrial park. WV-DEP’s Division of Water [...]

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Penna. Gov. Corbett Ignoring Environmental Duties

May 25, 2014

Does the Governor have the right to break the law? Absolutely not. Letter from Ron Evans, Centre County PA Daily, May 20, 2014 Two years ago, Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation attorney John Childe went straight to the top, bringing legal action against Gov. Tom Corbett for his failure to protect state lands against the destructive [...]

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Polluting is Immoral, says Pope Francis

May 24, 2014

Watch Pope Francis Message of May 21, 2014: Polluting is Sinful On Wednesday, Pope Francis took climate change deniers and corporate polluters to task and made the religious case for tackling climate change, imploring his fellow Christians to become “Custodians of Creation” and sounding the alarm bells about the catastrophic effects of global climate change. In [...]

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Houston Chronicle: “Climate Change is Real”

May 23, 2014

Debating the validity of climate change is a waste of time. … … …  Debating what to do is not ! Editorial, Houston Chronicle, May 19, 2014 The recent report on climate change from the U.N.-chartered Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a sober reminder that what we as individuals happen to “believe” about global [...]

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Many Faith Organizations Deplore Shale Fracking

May 22, 2014

There is a Growing Number of Faith Organizations Against Fracking By S. Tom Bond. Retired Chemistry Professor & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV Wherever there is unchecked power/money, there is the devil to pay. See the Interfaith Power & Light petition here. Part of the drooling over Ukraine is because petroleum interests want to horn [...]

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“Climate Change and the Highlands: What’s at Stake —What’s at Risk?”

May 21, 2014

Global climate change is local, too Editorial, Charleston Gazette, May 19, 2014 The effects of climate change are literally global in size, easily dwarfing human notions of scale. While it is a global phenomenon, people, and the animals and plants around them, will experience climate change locally, as well. Indeed, they are experiencing it now. [...]

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The Lack of Adequate Regulation of Fracking is a Moral Issue

May 20, 2014

FROM: INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT Dear Friends in the Marcellus Region, Sometimes it seems that there are no limits to what people will do to avoid using the clean renewable energy that nature has provided. The oil industry’s newest tactic is “fracking” – short for hydrofracturing. It involves injecting the earth with chemicals, diesel fuel, [...]

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US Army Corps Sells Out Doddridge Floodplain Ordinance

May 19, 2014

Army Corps of Engineers Sells Out Doddridge County’s Floodplain Ordinance Transcribed from the West Union Herald Record, May 16, 2014 In September 2011, the Doddridge County floodplain maps were changed by FEMA, and the County Commission was ordered by the FEMA representative to approve the floodplain ordinance FEMA had provided them.  This Ordinance, written by [...]

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CSSD Seeks Certification for Drilling & Fracking Operations

May 18, 2014

Center for Sustainable Shale Development awarded grant, loses Heinz Endowments funding From an Article in the Beaver County Times, PA, May 15, 2014 PITTSBURGH. The Center for Sustainable Shale Development announced this week it was awarded a two-year $150,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, but officials also confirmed the center no longer receives [...]

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