WV Legislature should revisit regulation of Marcellus shale drilling now, not later

January 8, 2014

MORGANTOWN, WV. DOMINION POST NEWSPAPER, Tuesday 7 January 2014   EDITORIAL — Morgantown Dominion Post, January 7, 2014 Work in progress, not the last word — WV Legislature should revisit regulation of Marcellus shale drilling now, not later For all their scientific bent, a series of legislative studies on horizontal gas well drilling are short [...]

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Earthquake of Magnitude 4.2 Apparently Due to Injection Well in Kansas

January 7, 2014

. . . . . . . . . Earthquake of 4.2 magnitude in fracking region From the Posting by Michael Janitch on December 16, 2013 Kansas, which not normally very seismically active, is showing signs of the surrounding pressure building in Oklahoma and Texas. On December 16th 2013, a 4.2 magnitude event struck directly near a KANSAS [...]

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Exxon Must Face Criminal Charges Over 50,000 Gallon Fracking Waste Dumping

January 6, 2014

Judge Rules Exxon Must Face Criminal Charges Over 50,000 Gallon Fracking Waste Dumping From an Article by Emily Atkin, ThinkProgress, January 3, 2014 ExxonMobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy will have to face criminal charges for allegedly dumping tens of thousands of gallons of hydraulic fracturing waste at a Marcellus Shale drilling site in 2010, according [...]

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Short-Lived Greenhouse Gases and Global Climate Change

January 5, 2014

“What Role for Short-Lived Climate Pollution in Mitigation Policy” By S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV   There was another significant article about global warming published in the December 13 Science, journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  It concerns the effects of the several [...]

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Explosion at Tyler County Well Pad of Jay Bee Oil & Gas

January 4, 2014

One Man Injured at Lisby Well Pad on Big Run Road By Duane Nichols from Internet Reports and Pictures, January 4, 2014 According to information from Indian Creek and Big Run in Tyler County, on January 2nd there was a late night explosion at the Lisby well pad of Jay-Bee Oil & Gas. Apparently one employee [...]

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Public Health Study in PA Marcellus Drilling/Fracking Areas Continues

January 3, 2014

Key gas drilling health study collecting data in Pennsylvania From an Article by Kevin Begos, Associated Press, December 31, 2013 PITTSBURGH – Almost two years after it began, a much-publicized plan to study possible health impacts from gas drilling is still in the process of collecting data.   Geisinger Health Systems, of Danville, began seeking [...]

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2014 Plans Firming for Marcellus Activities

January 2, 2014

EQT plans 70 new gas wells in WV in 2014 From an Article Printed, State Journal, Charleston, WV, December 20, 2013    EQT Corp. plans to bring 70 wells online in four counties in northern West Virginia next year, adding to the 96 it already has there, the company told analysts at a presentation this [...]

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New Year’s Resolution: Refuse Disposable Plastics

January 1, 2014

New Year’s Resolution: Refuse Disposable Plastics From an Article by EcoWatch, December 31, 2013 The Plastic Pollution Coalition launched a campaign in December aimed at reducing single use plastic in 2014. Through Resolve to Refuse, the Plastic Pollution Coalition is urging people to sign a pledge to follow the “Four Rs” of sustainable living—refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle—in [...]

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Fire Hazards Plentiful in Shale & Chemical Operations

December 31, 2013

Number of injured from Axiall chemical plant fire in Westlake rises to 18 News from Article of New Orleans, Louisiana, December 25, 2013 In this December 20, 2013 photo, smoke billows from the Axiall Corp. chemical plant in Westlake, La. The company is investigating what caused the explosion and fire, which released toxic chemicals and [...]

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Axiall Corporation Plans Ethane ‘Cracker’ Plant in Louisiana

December 29, 2013

Axiall Plans ‘Cracker’ in Louisiana From the Article by Casey Junkins, Wheeling Intelligencer, December 26, 2013 NOTE: Axiall Corporation, formed in PPG Chemicals merger with Georgia Gulf Corporation, operates a plant at Natrium in Marshall County, WV. NATRIUM – While West Virginia leaders hope Odebrecht will build a multi-billion dollar ethane cracker near Parkersburg, a [...]

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