January Was One of the Hottest Months on Record! Really.

February 27, 2014

Global Warming is a reality and it’s almost too late to take it seriously By Laurie David, Founder of the Stop Global Warming Virtual March,  StopGlobalWarming.org, February 24, 2014 Don’t let the cold in parts of the US this January fool you. Globally, January 2014 ranked as the fourth warmest since 1880, according to NOAA [...]

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Shale Fracking, Methane Gas, and Climate Change

February 26, 2014

Shale Fracking, Methane Gas,  and Climate Change Review by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV This month, Science (February 14, 2014) carried an article titled “Methane Leaks from North American Natural Gas Systems” which will be of interest to both professionals and the public. It has sixteen authors from [...]

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Frack Well Methane Capture Regulation in Colorado

February 25, 2014

Colorado First State to Clamp Down on Fracking Methane Pollution From the Article by Jennifer Oldham, Bloomberg News, February 23, 2014 Colorado regulators approved groundbreaking controls on emissions from oil and natural gas operations after an unusual coalition of energy companies and environmentalists agreed on measures to counter worsening smog. Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Noble Energy [...]

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Multiple Pipelines Coming for Marcellus Gas Transportation

February 24, 2014

Marcellus natural gas takeaway pipeline projects advance From an Article by Brett Wessler, Dairy Herd News, February 21, 2014 Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved three projects to increase natural gas takeaway capacity from the Marcellus Shale formation. On February 11, FERC approved the TEAM 2014 project expansions on Spectra’s Texas Eastern [...]

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Fracking is Disruptive with Adverse Impacts, East or West

February 23, 2014

Fracking is essentially a heavy industry spread over the landscape Western Livestock Journal, S. Tom Bond, February 2014 To the Editor, Western Livestock Journal: Interesting to see your article on fracking (“Fracking controversy heats up with well water contamination,” pg 5, January 2013, issue 15.)  Although it has been going on longer in the West, [...]

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Huge Rally in Baltimore Opposes Dominion’s Cove Point LNG Terminal

February 22, 2014

800+ Rally Against Fracked Gas LNG Export Terminal in Largest Environmental Protest in Baltimore History Article from Chesapeake Climate Action Network, 2/21/14 Yesterday, as a key state permit hearing began in downtown Baltimore, MD, activists from every corner of the state and from across the Mid-Atlantic marched to the doorstep of the Public Service Commission to [...]

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Ohio Governor Backs Down On Fracking Public Lands

February 21, 2014

Governor Kaisch was recently exposed for illegally promoting drilling & fracking Article by Darrel Rowland & Will Drabold, PopularResistance.Org, February 19, 2014 Less than three years after signing legislation opening up Ohio state parks and forests to fracking, Gov. John Kasich now opposes the controversial horizontal drilling for oil and gas on public lands. “At [...]

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Missing Worker: ‘Remains’ Found at Drilling Site in Greene County PA

February 20, 2014

Worker has been missing since explosion & fire From an Article by Molly Born and Sean D. Hamill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 19, 2014 At a somber news conference Wednesday, state police and officials from two well companies acknowledged what the colleagues, friends and family of a missing contractor had feared for eight days: that he [...]

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Marcellus Solid Waste Disposal Hearing at Legislature Critical of WV-DEP

February 19, 2014

Citizens speak against frack waste bill From an Article by Rachel Molenda, Charleston Gazette, February 17, 2014 CHARLESTON, WV — Of 20 speakers at a House hearing Monday, only one — an industry representative — spoke in favor of a bill that would exempt natural gas drilling waste in the Marcellus Shale region from the [...]

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Chevron Reports on Missing Worker & Status of Gas Well Fire(s)

February 18, 2014

Missing worker identified in Greene County gas well explosion From the Article by Molly Born, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 18, 2014 A northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper has identified a worker missing since the past week’s gas well explosion and fire in Dunkard, Greene County. The Times Observer of Warren reported that friends held a candlelight vigil Thursday [...]

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