Dirty Secrets in the WV Legislature

March 26, 2013

DIRTY SECRETS in the WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE Do WV Senators work for WV citizens … or out-of-state gas companies? The Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee amended the Marcellus Horizontal Well Drilling rule (now bundled into SB243) on March 12 to allow companies to keep toxic, carcinogenic hydraulic fracturing fluid chemicals a secret. This “Dirty [...]

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Where Law and Public Relations Collided in Hallowich Case

March 25, 2013

The Hallowich Case of Washington County, PA Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV The curious story of Stephanie and Chris Hallowich of Washington County in Pennsylvania may have reached an end. A good start on this is the National Geographic article relating their experience with shale drilling. Chris, a young high school [...]

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Unsealed Records in Contamination Case Show Lax Oversight by PA DEP

March 24, 2013

Marcellus Drilling Rig Judge Unseals Settlement in Washington County, PA From an article by Susan Phillips, StateImpact PA, NPR, March 21, 2013 A Washington County PA couple settled a high profile Marcellus Shale contamination case for $750,000 and signed affidavits that say no medical evidence ”definitively” connects their children’s health problems to drilling activity. Stephanie [...]

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Disagreement Already Over Center for Sustainable Shale Development

March 23, 2013

        The Center for Sustainable Shale Development (New) From an article by Kevin Begos, Associated Press, March 21, 2013 The Sierra Club and some other environmental groups are harshly criticizing a new partnership that aims to create tough new standards for fracking. The criticism came a day after two of the nation’s [...]

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Frack Water Too Contaminated For Sewage Treatment Plants

March 22, 2013

Sewage Plant Effluent WV and PA Discourage Processing Frackwater at Sewage Plants From the Article by Leigh Krietsch Boerner, Chemical & Engineering News, March 18, 2013 When energy companies extract natural gas trapped deep underground, they’re left with water containing high levels of pollutants, including salts, benzene and barium. Sometimes the gas producers dispose of this contaminated [...]

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The Interview of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson

March 21, 2013

TV Interview by Charlie Rose Charlie Rose does TV interviews for Public Television and Bloomberg TV. On March 7 of this year he did a show with Rex Tillerson, who is Chairman, President and CEO of Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest oil company. Tillerson is also a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies [...]

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Propane Truck and Flat-Bed Truck Accident Closes I-79 for 12 Hours

March 20, 2013

Propane Tanker Accidents Not Uncommon (See Photo) I-79 Reopens More Than 12 Hours After Monongalia Co. Collision Update: March 20, 2013, NBC-news.com . Monongalia County Office of Emergency Management issued a statement that the highway reopened at 3:39 a.m. Wednesday, almost 12 hours after the collision occurred. See WBOY story and video here. Original Story: [...]

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Protestors Arrested Blockading Gas Storage Facility on Seneca Lake, NY

March 19, 2013

Seneca Lake Storage Facility Protest Finger Lakes Protestors Arrested From the Article by Green Umbrella, March 18, 2013. (See also EcoWatch.) Twelve protestors, residents of the local Seneca Lake area and local college students, were arrested to oppose Kansas City, MO based Inergy, natural gas and liquid petroleum gas storage facility, which would lock in [...]

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Ethics and Money in Natural Resource Recovery

March 18, 2013

Money Gives Power But Lacks Ethics Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV .     .     . The current issue of Ethics and International Affairs, published by Carnegie Council carries an article titled ‘The Missing Ethics of Mining.” It tells the story of natives of Burkiana Faso, a country of Northwest Africa who [...]

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Marcellus Drill-site Pits Have Problems Says WVU

March 17, 2013

WV Storage Pit First of Three Reports for WV Legislature Completed From an Article by Ken Ward, the Charleston Gazette, March 15, 2013 A legislatively mandated study by West Virginia University has found consistent and potentially significant problems with the way oil and gas companies build drilling waste pits and with how state regulators inspect [...]

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