Section of Interstate 70 Shut Down by Truck Leaking Hydrochloric Acid

July 23, 2013

Section of I-70 shut down because of acid leaking From Mary Pickels, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, July 22, 2013 A leak from a tanker carrying water mixed with hydrochloric acid residue prompted officials to close a stretch of Interstate 70 near Smithton for more than four hours on Sunday. Authorities reported no injuries from the incident. Traffic backups [...]

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MarkWest Using Turboexpander to Separate “Wet-Gases”

July 22, 2013

MarkWest Turbo Expander Separator MarkWest Investing Billions Turbo Expander Being Used To Separate Gases From Article by Casey Junkins, The Wheeling Intelligencer, July 14, 2013 CADIZ – The ethane being produced in the Marcellus and Utica shale region should be enough to support construction of several ethane crackers, officials with MarkWest Energy believe. MarkWest has [...]

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Gen. David Petraeus’ Course Features “Frackademia”

July 21, 2013

Gen. David Petraeus Gen. David Petraeus’ Course Syllabus Features “Frackademia” Readings From the Article by Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog.com, July 18, 2013 Records obtained by DeSmogBlog pertaining to City University of New York (CUNY) Macaulay Honors College’s hiring of former head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) David Petraeus to teach a seminar this coming fall [...]

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Unfortunately, Climate Change Denial Continues

July 20, 2013

Unfortunately, Climate Change Denial Continues Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemist & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV In spite of near universal agreement among climate scientists that the earth is warming and the cause is human activity climate warming denial is strong among those influenced by the energy business. Interestingly, forced winds of change [...]

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PA Wastewater Treatment Plant Accused of Illegally Disposing of Radioactive Fracking Waste

July 19, 2013

PA Wastewater Treatment Plant May Have Been Dumping Radioactive Fracking Waste From the Article By Sharon Kelly, DeSmogBlog.com, July 15, 2013 A Pennsylvania industrial wastewater treatment plant has been illegally accepting oil and gas wastewater and polluting the Allegheny river with radioactive waste and other pollutants, according to an environmental group which announced today that it is suing [...]

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CONSOL Drills Gas Well in Upper Devonian Shale

July 18, 2013

CONSOL drills first well in Upper Devonian shale From Washington (PA) Observer-Reporter, July 15, 2013 CANONSBURG – CONSOL Energy Inc. said Monday it successfully drilled its first natural gas well in the Upper Devonian Shale play. Specifically, CONSOL drilled its Upper Devonian Shale well in the Burkett formation, which is the deepest of numerous Upper [...]

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Abstractors & Chaos at Tyler County Courthouse

July 17, 2013

Tyler County Courthouse Campout Causes Consternation Abstractors are Root of Overnight Chaos, Tyler County Neighbors Say From Article by Casey Junkins, Wheeling Intelligencer, July 16, 2013 MIDDLEBOURNE – Dozens of abstractors looking to lock up land for oil and gas drilling flood the Tyler County Courthouse daily, with some arriving as early as 6 p.m. [...]

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The Energy Reality Project . .. …

July 16, 2013

ENERGY REALITY — Post Carbon Institute Greetings, have you visited the Energy Reality website lately at www.energy-reality.org. We’ve shared 24 newly-released essays from ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth with you, on topics like peak oil, rarely discussed challenges of alternative energy, false solutions to our energy predicament (clean coal, hydrofracking) and more.  These essays by provocative thinkers in the [...]

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Fire Reported at Gas Well Pad in Wetzel County, WV

July 15, 2013

Fire Reported at Gas Well Pad in Wetzel County, WV  By Laurie Conway, Digital Journalist, Posted July 13th, Updated July 15th  Dateline: New Martinsville, Wetzel County, WV According to the New Martinsville Fire Department, the fire broke out shortly after 6:30 p.m. in a flare tube that had blown apart at the Lemons Pad off [...]

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THE JOKER – Permafrost

July 14, 2013

THE JOKER – Permafrost  By. S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV There are two phenomena in the Arctic, that bode evil for the future: loss of arctic sea ice and melting permafrost. I’ve read a lot, and it seems no one has a quantitative idea about what will happen when the arctic sea [...]

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