Wendell Berry’s Farm Manifesto Taking Root

April 4, 2013

Wendell Berry’s Farm Manifesto Taking Root Source: www.courier-journal.com The book’s theme was simple — that the health of land and the health of people were inseparable. It represented at once a cry of lament and a manifesto written in prophetic fury against industrial-scale agriculture, strip mining and other land exploitation. In that 1977 work, “The [...]

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Unconventional Shale Gas Drilling Conference April 5 & 6 in Ohio

April 3, 2013

Unconventional Shale Gas Drilling Conference “UNCONVENTIONAL SHALE DRILLING: A FACT-BASED HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC AND POLICY DISCUSSION; WHAT WE KNOW, WHAT WE DON’T KNOW, WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW BEFORE MOVING FORWARD” I want to alert you to the Unconventional Shale Gas Drilling Conference we are having in Warren, Ohio on April 5 and 6, 2013. [...]

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Fayette County (WV) Disposal Well at the Re-Permitting Stage

April 3, 2013

Waste Injection Well WV Disposal Well at the Re-Permitting Stage From an Article by C.V. Moore, Register-Herald, March 31, 2013 Should the state continue to allow waste fluids from oil and gas drilling to be pumped underground in Fayette County? That’s the question officials must answer as an underground injection control (UIC) well in Lochgelly [...]

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Frack Fuels for the Foreseeable Future?

April 2, 2013

Fossil Fuels and Troubled Waters! Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV ISSUES: We need fossil fuel for the foreseeable future. Natural gas is a bridge fuel. We can adapt to global warming. Natural gas burns cleaner than other fuels. No other energy source is apparent at the present time. All of [...]

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Pittsburgh Health Summit on Chemical Exposures in Gasfield Communities

April 1, 2013

Carnegie Science Center Health Summit on Chemical Exposures Saturday,  April 6th, 2013 Conf. Time: 8 am to 5 pm Location: The Carnegie Science Center 1 Allegheny Ave, Pittsburgh, PA Google Maps URL: http://goo.gl/maps/xP7UK Purpose: Recent technological advances in directional drilling and high volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing have stimulated the rapid development of a complex industrial network. [...]

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Music with a Water Motif for the Celebration of Easter

March 31, 2013

Ed McDonald  ”Music with a Water Motif for the Celebration of Easter” SIDETRACKS PLAY LIST,  March 29-31, 2013 The entry for each song in the play list below contains information in the following order: artist(s) name / song title / album title / record label. >> THE 1937 FLOOD / Wade in the Water / [...]

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Frack Sand Dust Poses Lung Disease Risks

March 30, 2013

Silica Dust Risk Frack Site Workers at Risk of Lung Diseases From the Article by Nell Greenfield Boyce, NPR, March 29, 2013 PHOTO: A worker stands on top of a storage bin at a drilling operation. The dust is from silica powder (to be) mixed with water for hydraulic fracturing. When workplace safety expert Eric Esswein [...]

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies are a World-wide Issue

March 29, 2013

Time Is Now To Change Global Focus Fossil Fuel Subsidies: A Global Scandal (From EcoWatch.com) From an Article by World Wildlife Fund, March 28, 2013 The continued maintenance of fossil fuel subsidies is a global scandal and governments should work to transform these subsidies into financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy, says World Wildlife [...]

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Some WV Drillers Commit Multiple Wastewater Violations

March 28, 2013

Multiple Wastewater Violations From the Article by Gayathri Vaidyanathan, E&E reporter, EnergyWire: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Some oil and gas operators in West Virginia spilled wastewater into the environment even after getting multiple citations from the WV Department of Environmental Protection. Between 2011 and 2012, companies including Raven Ridge Energy LLC, Chesapeake Appalachia LLC, and [...]

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National Research Council: Life After Oil and Gas

March 27, 2013

Renewable Energy’s Future? Life After Oil and Gas — New York Times From an article by Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times, Sunday, March 23, 2013 Increasingly, scientific research and the experience of other countries should prompt us to ask: To what extent will we really “need” fossil fuel in the years to come? To what [...]

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