Doddridge County Fracking Site Visited by Student Group

March 16, 2013

WV Host Farms Photo Fracking Site via WV Host Farms Program From an Article by Diane Pitcock, WV Host Farms Project, March 16, 2013 We took this video clip standing up on our ridge top ….  on OUR private property next to an adjoining Marcellus drilling site. Our neighbor leased his minerals to Antero and they [...]

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Corporate Money in Politics Becomes a “Good” Investment?

March 15, 2013

Governor Tom Corbett Was A “Good” Investment? Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV An article published in 2011 illustrates the importance of political money to shale drilling. It was titled: ”How a natural-gas tycoon tapped into Corbett“  Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer used the public record to find who funded todays Pennsylvania [...]

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Dominion Resources to Transfer 94 Office Employees From Clarksburg to Richmond

March 14, 2013

Dominion Resources Dominion Resources Lays Strategy For Fracking Advantages  From the Article by Peter Bacque, Richmond Times Dispatch, March 11, 2013 Dominion Resources Inc. will transfer about 100 employees of its interstate gas transmission subsidiary in West Virginia and Pennsylvania to its Richmond headquarters. Most of the moves will take place before September, said Dominion [...]

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Exxon Mobil in Major Expansion of Baytown Texas Plant to Use Ethane

March 13, 2013

ExxonMobil Baytown Complex ExxonMobil to Produce Polyethylene from Ethane at Baytown Texas From the Article by Emily Pickrell in FuelFix: General, March 5, 2013 Exxon Mobil Corp. is expanding the capacity of its Baytown complex to boost its capacity for turning natural gas into petrochemical building blocks, a multibillion-dollar upgrade the company believes makes sense [...]

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Is Drilling the Cause Of Off-Color Water in Butler County, PA

March 12, 2013

Residents Carry Water Contaminated Water Not Fit to Drink From the article by Kevin Begos, Associated Press, March 10, 2013 What causes clear, fresh country well water to turn orange or black, or smell so bad that it’s undrinkable? Residents of a western Pennsylvania community have been trying for more than a year to get [...]

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Antero Expanding Marcellus Drilling into Utica Shale in Ohio

March 11, 2013

Antero Planning for Drilling in Belmont County, Ohio From article by Casey Junkins, Wheeling Intelligencer, March 11, 2013 Belmont County, OH – Many individual mineral owners are joining the village of Barnsville drilling agreement with Denver-based Antero Resources at a rate of $5,700 per acre and 20 percent of production royalties. Antero held a series [...]

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Frack Water Truck Overturns onto Auto in Clarksburg, WV: Two Children Dead

March 10, 2013

Tanker Truck On Sedan Auto Two Children Killed in Accident on March 9, 2013 From Report By Jamie Stover, Reporter WBOY Channel 12, Clarksburg, WV Two children were dead on scene, according to Clarksburg Police Chief Marshall Goff. Their ages are unknown at this time. A water tank truck  for Marcellus shale fracking was seen [...]

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WV Green Legislative Update from the WV E-Council

March 9, 2013

WEST VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL, March 8, 2013 SPRING FUNDRAISER LETTER and GREEN LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Dear friends, I am writing to ask for your help. For the past four years, I was one of hundreds of West Virginia citizens who fought to protect our homes and land from a proposed transmission line across the state. The [...]

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New Phenology Study Documents Climate Trends

March 8, 2013

Flowering Dates Influenced by Record Warm Spring of 2012 From the Aldo Leopold Foundation: Senior Fellow Stan Temple of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, along with scientists from Boston and Harvard Universities, used data from long-term phenology records initiated by Aldo Leopold and Henry David Thoreau to examine the relationship between spring temperatures and flowering dates. [...]

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National Research Council Seeks To Evaluate Drilling & Fracking Risks

March 7, 2013

Public Input Requested on Risks of Shale Drilling & Fracking The National Research Council of The National Academies (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine) is conducting a project to look into the risks associated with extracting natural gas from shale deposits using technologies of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing [...]

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