Marcellus Shale Gas Well Planned Near High School in Marshall County

August 11, 2013

Cameron High School Even at a legal distance, officials express concern about gas well From Article & Photo by Casey Junkins, Wheeling Intelligencer, August 8, 2013 Cameron, WV – When Cameron High School students and employees returned to classes on August 1, they may not have realized a natural gas well could soon be drilled [...]

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Face the Facts and Say It Like It Is …!

August 10, 2013

FACE THE FACTS AND SAY IT LIKE IT IS Commentary by Paul B. Brown, August 9, 2013 We may have the technical means to reverse global warming, mass extinction, and overpopulation, but I don’t think we have the societal means. Commonly proposed solutions are far too little, too late. For perspective, here are just a [...]

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Medical Education Series on Shale Gas Development

August 9, 2013

Dr. David R. Brown, Sc. D., Toxicologist Continuing Medical Education Series on Shale Gas Development Physicians, Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy, PSEhealthyenergy.org, August 2013 High-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) of shale is a relatively new method of natural gas extraction, emerging only recently over the past decade. The medical community’s experience concerning the potential acute [...]

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Victory in Fracking Wastewater Fight in Western Pennsylvania

August 8, 2013

Monongahela River Fracking Wastewater Dumping in the Monongahela River Article from Earthjustice, August 7, 2013 If not for the effort of Clean Water Action and Earthjustice, a wastewater treatment plant in southwestern Pennsylvania might have spent each day of the past three years dumping up to 500,000 gallons of untreated natural gas drilling wastewater into the [...]

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Global Warming: An Ugly Peril for Humanity, but Who is Talking?

August 7, 2013

  Global Warming: An Ugly Peril Editorial – The Charleston Gazette – August 6, 2013 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Last week, four major Republicans who each once headed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — William Ruckelshaus, Lee Thomas, William Reilly and Christine Todd Whitman — called for the GOP to support President Obama’s effort to curb [...]

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Fracking’s Controversial Image Is Your Investment Risk

August 6, 2013

Motley Fool Advisors RE: Range Resources  & Cabot Oil & Gas From the THE MOTLEY FOOL, August 5, 2013 Is fracked natural gas sustainable? Do its public relation risks hinder sound, long-term investing? Companies such as Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation  and Range Resources Corp.  are raking in profits from plays in the Marcellus Shale, [...]

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Public Meeting at Normantown, Gilmer County, WV

August 5, 2013

Marcellus Well Pad  “What is the Scale of the Marcellus Shale ‘Play’?” Update Report by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemist and Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV On Thursday the 1st of August an informational meeting organized by residents of Gilmer County was held at Normantown, in Gilmer County. Gilmer County has been the target of [...]

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Fracking Gas Flares Double In Bakken Oil Fields of North Dakota

August 4, 2013

Bakken Field Flares from Space Burning Natural Gas as a Waste in N.D. From an Article of Ceres, August 4, 2013 The tremendous growth of unconventional oil production in North Dakota has also led to a rapid rise in the production of associated natural gas and natural gas liquids. A new Ceres report reveals that [...]

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Respirators Are Not Enough: New Study Examines Worker Exposure to Silica in Hydraulic Fracturing Operations

August 3, 2013

Environmental Health & Safety Exposure to Silica in Hydraulic Fracturing Operations Article By Sandy Smith, Environmental Health & Safety, EHSToday.com, August 1, 2013 A new study, “Occupational Exposures to Respirable Crystalline Silica During Hydraulic Fracturing,” found respirable crystalline silica, a human lung carcinogen, to be an occupational exposure hazard for workers at hydraulic fracturing (fracking) [...]

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Commentary: “Energy Overdevelopment”

August 3, 2013

Post Carbon Institute “Energy Overdevelopment” By S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemist and Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV, August 3, 2013 At the recent Water and Wellness Conference at Buckhannon this author received a copy of the large format book “Energy – Overdevelopment and the delusion of endless growth.” Put out by the Post Carbon Institute, [...]

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