Nuisance Gas Wells Facing Legal Action in Fayette County, PA

June 13, 2013

Nuisance Gas Wells — Legal Case in Fayette County PA By S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV We here at FrackCheckWV are eagerly awaiting more news from a legal case recently announced in Bloomberg. Several other news sources have had coverage too, such as the Akron Beacon Journal and Business Week. Such legal actions [...]

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Wheeling Water Warriors in Garden Park on Saturday

June 12, 2013

Ohio County Program on Ohio River Wheeling Water Warriors: Awareness Rally This Saturday, 6/15/13, from noon to 4:00 pm in Garden Park in Warwood the Wheeling Water Warriors are having an awareness rally. There will be free music provided by Joe Zelek, Cabin Fever Strings Band, and Uncle Eddie and Robin. Dr. Ben Stout, Professor [...]

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International Energy Agency Doubles Down on Climate Change

June 11, 2013

Can we avoid a 4.5 F increase? IEA Advances Four Steps for the Future Source:  IEEE Spectrum, June 8, 2013 The OECD’s International Energy Agency (IEA), Paris, issued a report and companion materials today squarely addressing the question of what to do about the blunt fact that the world is not meeting its goals for [...]

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A Live Google+ Conversation with Al Gore on June 11 @ 2 PM

June 10, 2013

Conversation With AL GORE   A Live Conversation with Al Gore  . . . Source:  “StopGlobalWarming.org”  June 10, 2013 Former Vice President Al Gore invites you to participate in a Google+ Conversation about combating the climate crisis. Celebrating the seventh anniversary of Participant Media’s Academy Award®-Winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Vice President Gore will join [...]

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Vegetable Crop Farming in West Virginia

June 9, 2013

West Virginia Vegetable Crop Farming From the Article by S. Thomas Bond, Newsletter of the Guardians of the West Fork David Beard, writing for the Dominion Post, the Morgantown newspaper, tells us Delegate Larry Williams and others are looking to encourage farming in West Virginia. This seems like a good idea to prepare for a [...]

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Water and Wellness II: Health Impacts of Fossil Fuel Extraction Conference

June 8, 2013

*** June 29-30th Water & Wellness Conference 2, WV Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV *** Wellness and Water II: Health Impacts of Fossil Fuel Extraction. This conference will take place on the weekend of June 29th-30th. We are expanding this event from last year’s half day format to a day and a half. We will have [...]

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Brine Dumping Illegal — OHIO D.N.R. Says Water Poured into Private Pond

June 7, 2013

Brine Dumping Illegal — OHIO D.N.R. Says Water Poured into Private Pond From the Article by Ian Hicks, The Wheeling Intelligencer, June 6, 2013             ST. CLAIRSVILLE – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources ordered Harch Environmental Resources to cease its operations in the state after an inspector reportedly uncovered [...]

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GASP Appeals Two Compressor Station Permits In PA

June 6, 2013

GASP Appeals Two Compressor Station Permits Source: GASP Alert, Group Against Smog & Pollution, June 3, 2013 GASP has filed two related appeals before the PA Environmental Hearing Board seeking review of air permits issued by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the Forward Compressor Station and the Jefferson Compressor Station, both located in [...]

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EQT Manager Promotes Sustainable Fracking Development

June 5, 2013

EQT Manager Promotes Sustainable Fracking Development From the Article by Rick Shrum, Observer-Reporter (Washington, PA), June 2, 2013 Andrew Place specializes in diversity. He is an energy company executive in downtown Pittsburgh, a city dweller and a frequent business traveler. He also owns a farm in Greene County, where he and his family are quite [...]

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A Little Radiation May Be A Big Deal As Ordinance Could Halt GreenHunter

June 4, 2013

A Little Radiation may be a Big Deal as Ordinance Could Halt GreenHunter From Article By Casey Junkins, TheWheeling Intelligencer, June 2, 2013           WHEELING – The natural gas wastewater that GreenHunter Water plans to recycle in Warwood can contain trace amounts of radioactive radium and radon, according to the federal [...]

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