The Need for a New Energy Paradigm

April 25, 2013

A New Energy Paradigm: Renewables and/or Nuclear Fusion Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV The argument for coal is that it’s “cheap.” The argument for gas is that it is “clean (maybe)”. The argument for oil is “that that’s where the money is.” All of these energy sources are in a [...]

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Increased Fossil Fuels Use Can Worsen Global Economic Crisis

April 24, 2013

Tracking Carbon-Based Fuels Global Carbon Tracker Initiative Article from TckTckTck, Non-Profit Organization, April 19, 2013 The world could be heading for another major economic shock as stock markets inflate an investment bubble in fossil fuels to the tune of trillions of dollars, according to new research. In its second seminal report, Unburnable Carbon 2013: Wasted Capital [...]

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Sasol Ltd to Add Chemicals & Plastics in Louisiana

April 23, 2013

South Africa Company into Ethane Cracking and Plastics From  Jim Polson & Jack Kaskey, Bloomberg Business Week, April 9, 2013  Sasol Ltd., the largest world-wide producer of motor fuel from coal, will profit from its investment of as much as $21 billion in two new Louisiana plants by producing plastics and chemicals, Chief Executive Officer David Constable said. An [...]

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Sandra Steingraber: The Toxic Assault on Our Children

April 22, 2013

Sandra & Elijah Steingraber: Toxic Chemicals on Earth Bill Moyers, Moyers  & Company, April 19, 2013 Biologist, mother and activist Sandra Steingraber joins Bill Moyers to explain why she was willing to go to jail — and did — for blocking access to the construction of a storage and transportation facility involved in the controversial [...]

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Facts to Ponder about Climate Change

April 21, 2013

Facts to Ponder about Climate Change By Paul Brown, Morgantown, WV, April 20, 2013 Definitions: Climate is not weather. Weather consists of specific meteorological events, like combinations of precipitation, wind, and temperature that are described as pleasant sunny days, nor’easters, hurricanes, etc. They are short-term, local, described by numbers. Climate is a statistical description of [...]

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Performance Standards of the Center for Sustainable Shale Development (CSSD)

April 20, 2013

“Voluntary Shale Standards” “Voluntary Shale  Standards” for Marcellus Shale Development” From the Article by Casey Junkins, Wheeling Intelligencer, April 14, 2013 Some environmental groups are concerned about the Center for Sustainable Shale Development. So are some industry groups. For Andrew Place, that means the center must be doing something right. Place, interim director of the Pittsburgh-based [...]

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Those Impacted by Fracking: “The List of the Harmed”

April 19, 2013

# 1208 Entries And Counting: By Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV The internet site Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air is one of the many great sites produced by people living in the Pennsylvania Marcellus area. The area is both heavily populated and heavily drilled which results in so many sites and [...]

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CMU Symposium on Marcellus Shale Gas in Regional Economy

April 18, 2013

Carnegie Mellon University Bias Among Industrial and Educational Leaders? From the Article by Deanna Garcia, WESA public radio, April 4, 2013 The Department of Energy estimates that gas from shale is expected to account for roughly half of the country’s natural gas supply by 2040. A symposium at Carnegie Mellon University on April 4th examined [...]

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The Dunkards of the High-lying, Wide-stretching Alleghenies:

April 17, 2013

Jeff Bach at Ephrata Cloister Pennsylvania Hermits in Preston County WV in the 1750s Note:  Three of the Eckerlin Brothers, namely Samuel, Israel and Gabriel, crossed the Allegheny Mountains about 1750 and first settled at the mouth of Dunkard Creek (named for them).  French and Indian conflicts drove them up the Cheat River to Dunkard Bottom [...]

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Letter on Marcellus Shale Gas Development in WV

April 16, 2013

Letter to the Western Livestock Journal RE: Marcellus Shale Gas Development, Horizontal Drilling and Hydraulic Fracking in WV Experience here in the Marcellus and elsewhere shows property damage to private individuals and to public property is a major issue with shale drilling, often called fracking. Well pads require 3 to 5 acres which are essentially [...]

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