Wheeling – Ohio County Board of Health Needs Scientific Evidence

May 15, 2013

Scientific Evidence? Wheeling Water Warriors Oppose GreenHunter Water Works From Article by Shelly Hanson, Wheeling Intelligencer, May 15, 2013 WHEELING – Members of the Wheeling Water Warriors asked the Wheeling-Ohio County Board of Health on Tuesday to take a stand against GreenHunter Water’s plans to open a natural gas frack water recycling plant in Warwood. [...]

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The Shale Gas Review: Frack Chemicals and Water Contamination

May 14, 2013

Commentary from Tom Wilber, The Shale Gas Review, May 10, 2013 The migration of fracking chemicals in the soil, in the earth’s strata and in groundwater are problems that are not fully understood. Plus, the chemicals resulting from drilling and fracking contain some toxic materials that have been leached from the earth or exposed by [...]

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Time to End Oil & Gas Company Town Culture in West Virginia

May 13, 2013

David McMahon, Esq. Guest Commentary by David McMahon, Page 2-D, Morgantown Dominion Post, Sunday, May 12, 2013 The vast wealth of the Marcellus shale is something beyond our state’s collective experience and requires new thinking. Most importantly, it means that our state needs to create and use our new wealth without making the same mistakes we [...]

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GreenHunter Plans to Process, Recycle, and Barge Frack Water

May 12, 2013

Early Marcellus Sites: Ohio Co. WV Warwood Frack Water Plant on Ohio River From the Article by Casey Junkins, Wheeling Intelligencer, May 12, 2013 NEW MATAMORAS, OH – John Jack is confident that GreenHunter Water’s plans to store nearly 800,000 gallons of natural gas frack water in the Warwood section of Wheeling will become a [...]

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Fracking Is Interfering with Farming in WV and PA

May 11, 2013

“WV Host Farms” Concerns Include Fracking Impacts Commentary from Diane Pitcock, West Virginia Host Farms, May 10, 2013 In rural communities in WV, we have many small farms that rely on Farmers Markets to sell their produce for supplemental income. And we also have “Mountain State Naturals” – which is a “WV Beef Farmers’ Cooperative” [...]

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Rep. DeGette & Gibson Introduce Bipartisan FRAC Act in U.S. Congress

May 10, 2013

Date: May 9, 2013 Rep. DeGette (D-CO) and Rep. Gibson (R-NY) introduce bipartisan FRAC Act WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) joined with her colleague Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY) to introduce the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (FRAC Act), a bipartisan bill that establishes common sense safeguards to protect groundwater from risks [...]

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U. S. Shale Gas Exports: Friend or Foe?

May 9, 2013

U. S. Shale Gas Exports: Friend or Foe? Article by James Bradbury, World Resources Institute, May 8, 2013 U.S. natural gas production is booming. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), production grew by 23 percent from 2007 to 2012. Now—with production projected to continue growing in the decades ahead—U.S. lawmakers and companies are considering exporting this [...]

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Worker Camps from Natural Gas Boom Cause Headaches for Local Officials

May 8, 2013

Worker camps from natural gas boom cause headaches for local officials | MNN – Mother Nature Network From Article By Lydia Nuzum, Carly Runquist, and David Perry - Mountaineer News Service, West Virginia University Tridelphia, West Virginia  ––  Just outside of Wheeling on a busy stretch of Route 40, rows of RVs and campers line a [...]

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West Virginia Officials Say “Farming is the Future”

May 7, 2013

WV Officials: Farming is the Future From an Article by David Beard, The Morgantown Dominion Post, Sunday, May 5, 2013 Delegate Larry Williams and others are looking in to what may seem an unlikely — and overlooked — direction to bring prosperity to West Virginia: Farming. “It just has all kinds of potential,” said Williams, [...]

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REVIEW: Climate Change — The Moral Choices

May 6, 2013

MIT Review: May-June 2013 Climate Change — Moral Choices From the Book Reviews By David Rotman, MIT Technology Review, Volume 116, No. 3, May/June 2013. One of the defining characteristics of climate change is poorly appreciated by most people: the higher temperatures and other effects induced by increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere [...]

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