Penna. Revision in Drilling Rules Moves Closer to Reality

August 30, 2013

From the Article by Mike Wereschagin, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 27, 2013 Play by the rules The state Department of Environmental Protection is proposing new regulations for gas drillers. Protection of public resources: • Requires notifying the appropriate state agency of intent to drill a well near a national scenic river or within 200 feet of [...]

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Shell Seeks Ethane Supplies for Cracker Plant

August 29, 2013

Shell Seeks Ethane Supplies from “Wet” Frack Gas for Cracker Plant From the Article by Jim Ross, State Journal, August 27, 2013 As Shell Chemical Co. moves closer to a decision on whether it will build a multi-billion-dollar ethane cracker plant in Pennsylvania, it is seeking more suppliers of raw materials from the Marcellus and [...]

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Fracking Health Project Puts (Some) Numbers into the Debate

August 28, 2013

Hydro-Fracking Operations Fracking Health Project Puts (Some) Numbers to Debate From an Article by Kevin Begos, Associated Press, August 25, 2013 PITTSBURGH (AP) — A project examining the local health impacts from natural gas drilling is providing some of the first preliminary numbers about people who may be affected, and the results challenge the industry [...]

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The Character of the Worldwide Anti-Fracking Movement

August 27, 2013

Fracking Protest in England The Worldwide Anti-Fracking Movement Review by S. Tom Bond, Ph.D. Retired Chemistry Professor and Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV. August 27, 2013 To the casual United States reader of newspapers and captives of the TV news, any complaints about shale drilling may appear local and peculiar.  Anyone who digs deeper realizes [...]

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The Little Town That Took on Fracking and Big Oil

August 26, 2013

Fracking is Banned in the Town of Dryden, NY From the Article by Laura Beans, EcoWatch. August 22, 2013 In a continuation of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry’s Aug. 17 show, which highlighted the process of hydraulic fracturing, a panel of experts gathered to discuss the specific case of rural Dryden, NY, which banned fracking within the town [...]

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PA Residents Worried After Latest MarkWest Flare Excursion

August 25, 2013

MarkWest Cryogenic Plant Flare Pollution  From an Article by Emily Petsko and Mike Jones, Washington (PA) Observer-Reporter, August 23, 2013 Photo: Flames and thick black smoke from a flare stack were visible in mid-July at the MarkWest cryogenic gas plant.   LOCATION:  PA Route 519 northwest of Houston, Washington County, PA.  People living near MarkWest’s natural gas processing [...]

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What It’s Like to Have Fracking in Your WV Backyard

August 24, 2013

From Ed Wade (Wetzel Co.) You Have to See It to Believe It: Residents in industry-friendly West Virginia share their fracking experiences, photos and videos. Article by  Tara Lohan, Alternet, August 21, 2013 Ed Wade’s property straddles the Wetzel and Marshall county lines in rural West Virginia and it has a conventional gas well on [...]

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WV Delegates Frustrated with WV Department of Environmental Protection

August 23, 2013

Whose problem(s) are they? Legislature expected solid directives out of gas well pad research studies From the Article by David Beard, Morgantown Dominion Post, August 22, 2013 CHARLESTON — Several delegates expressed frustration this week with the lack of concrete recommendations from the WV Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) after a series of gas well [...]

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What Insects Can Tell Us About Climate Change

August 22, 2013

Natural History Butterfly Collection What Insects Can Tell Us About Climate Change  By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network, August 22, 2013 British researchers are using insect specimens kept in museums for a century and a quarter to learn more about climate change and the steady move towards the earlier annual arrival of spring. Thousands of [...]

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MarkWest Energy Cited in Fish Kill in Wetzel County

August 21, 2013

Pipeline ROW Landslide Gas & Liquid Pipeline Spill of Volatile Organics From the Article by Casey Junkins, Wheeling Intelligencer, August 21, 2013 LITTLETON – West Virginia environmental regulators on Tuesday cited MarkWest Energy for “conditions not allowable in the waters of the state” following a natural gas liquids spill from one of MarkWest’s pipelines in [...]

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