Climate Change Impacts on Global Food Security

August 20, 2013

Climate Change Impacts on Global Food Security Review by S. Tom Bond, Ph.D., Retired Chemistry Professor & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV, August 20, 2013 FrackCheckWV has referred its readers to the recent issue of Science which has over 50 pages of articles on the changes in natural systems in changing climates.  Being both a [...]

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Comment on Draft TMDL for Monongahela River Watershed — Urgent

August 19, 2013

Comment on Draft TMDL for Monongahela River Watershed — Urgent  ========================================= Public Meeting on August 20th. Comment Period Ends September 3rd.    =========================================  The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection announces a comment period and public meeting on draft Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for impaired streams in the Monongahela River Watershed.   A TMDL is [...]

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‘Liberated Carbon, It’ll Turn Your Night to Day’

August 18, 2013

‘Liberated Carbon, It’ll Turn Your Night to Day’ Op-Ed by Andrew Revkin, New York Times, August 16, 2013 Via Climate Nexus and Daniel M.N. Turner, here’s video of my performance of “Liberated Carbon,” my short musical history of humanity’s love affair with fossil fuels, at the ScienceOnline Climate conference in Washington, D.C., yesterday. Video of [...]

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Public Meeting on Proposed ECA Injection Well on Deckers Creek

August 17, 2013

ECA Injection Well Proposed on Deckers Creek in Preston County Letter from the FRIENDS OF DECKERS CREEK, August 2, 2013 Dear Friends and Partners: We are writing to inform you of Friends of Deckers Creek’s opposition to a proposed Class II wastewater injection well being planned by the Energy Corporation of America (ECA) in the [...]

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Occupy The Hollers: Seeking Truth in Shale Gas Advertising

August 16, 2013

See the YouTube Video Seeking Truth:  …”what did she say?” From the YouTube Video by OccupyTheHollers, August 2013 The public just needs to be educated. I heard the gas companies have spent almost a billion dollars to spread their propaganda …. all we have is the word of mouth. The YouTube video below is a [...]

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Royal Dutch Shell: They’ve Really Got a Friend in PA

August 15, 2013

Fracking Friends in Pennsylvania Commentary by Walter Brasch, Wanderings Blog, August 10, 2013 Royal Dutch Shell, which owns or leases about 900,000 acres in the Marcellus Shale, had a great idea. It wanted to frack the Ukraine. But, there was opposition. So, Royal Dutch Shell decided to create a junket for some of the Ukrainians [...]

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The Social Cost of Carbon: Setting the Record Straight

August 14, 2013

Social Cost of Carbon from 2010 to 2050 The Social Cost of Carbon: Setting the Record Straight From Rachel Cleetus, The Equation Blog, Union of Concerned Scientists, July 18, 2013 The Obama administration has recently updated the official U.S. social cost of carbon (SCC), which attempts to estimate the costs of damage from carbon pollution. [...]

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Looking Past Natural Gas

August 14, 2013

Land Disturbances Now Common Looking Past Natural Gas  “Op-Ed” by S. Thomas Bond, Charleston Gazette, August 10, 2013 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Shale drilling for natural gas is just getting started. If it proceeds anything like the fond hopes of some, hundreds of thousands of acres will be involved, requiring about 30 acres for each well [...]

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EnerVest Finds Buyer for Some Utica Holdings in Northeastern Ohio

August 13, 2013

EnerVest Selling 22,535 Acres Utica Holdings in Guernsey, Harrison, and Noble Counties of Northeastern Ohio Being Sold From Article by Edd Pritchard, Canton Repository, August 10, 2013 EnerVest announced it has a buyer for 22,535 acres of the more than 100,000 acres of Utica Shale leases it has been trying to sell. But the company [...]

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Antero Resources Cites Reasons for Deadly Gas Well Explosion in WV

August 12, 2013

Antero Resources Ruddy Alt Pad Deadly Gas Well Explosion in Doddridge County From Article by Kim Freda, WBOY, August 1, 2013 Clarksburg, WV — Antero Resources has requested that the Office of Oil and Gas allow it to resume operations at the Ruddy Alt Pad in Doddridge County where five men received severe burns in [...]

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