New Process in Development to Convert Natural Gas to Chemicals

March 6, 2013

Conversion of Natural Gas to Aromatic Hydrocarbons From Article by Kevin Bullis, MIT Technology Review, 3-1-13 High-performance ceramic membranes from the R&D company Ceramatec could lead to a cheaper way to convert natural gas into benzene, a liquid that can be used to make a wide variety of chemicals and serve as a component of [...]

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Marcellus Shale Drilling and Fracking: The Extraction Syndrome (Part 3 of 3.)

March 5, 2013

  The Extraction Syndrome (Part 3 of 3.) Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV In my the first article of this series I pointed out that the shale drilling industry and its Wall Street backers are benefitting from a body of law built up over a century or more by the [...]

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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Keystone XL Pipeline

March 4, 2013

Keystone XL Pipeline Draft SEIS Released for Comment From the Keystone XL Pipeline web-site of the U. S. Department of State: On May 4, 2012, the Department of State received a new application from TransCanada Corp. for a proposed pipeline that would run from the Canadian border to connect to an existing pipeline in Steele [...]

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Natural Gas is Replacing Coal for Electricity Generation

March 3, 2013

Natural Gas Economics King (Low-Cost) Natural Gas From a Review by David Rotman, MIT Technology Review, October 2012 Last summer, a simple graph from the U.S. Energy Information Administration shocked even the most astute energy wonks. It showed that for the first time since the federal agency began keeping track, coal was no longer the [...]

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Who Owns the Land Where Drilling and Fracking are Underway

March 2, 2013

Who Owns the Land (Part 2 of  3) Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV Land in this country originally belonged almost entirely to individuals. The principal industry at the time was the acquisition of products of the land, won by hard labor. Experience in Europe had shown that concentrated land ownership [...]

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Myths and Realities of Large Scale Unconventional Gas Development

March 1, 2013

Professor Ingraffea Speaking On Gas Well Problems   From an article by Nicole Gugino, Dunkirk NY Observer, 2-27-2013. . PORTLAND NY – Dr. Anthony Ingraffea spoke to a packed house at Cornell University‘s Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory February 25th. People from many parts of the county gathered for the presentation from the “shale [...]

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Separation of the Mineral Estate from the Surface Estate

February 28, 2013

Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV (Part 1 of 3). The people who conduct Shale Drilling have talked up advantages of their enterprise, but never mention costs to the land owners. Look at property damage. A shale well or compressor next door cuts property values, sometimes to a little as one-third [...]

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New Shale Bills in the WV Legislature

February 27, 2013

 New Shale Bills in the WV Legislature From the article by Casey Junkins, Wheeling Intelligencer, February 24, 2003 Via the proposed West Virginia Futures Fund, state Senate President Jeff Kessler, D-Marshall, wants all residents to benefit from the Marcellus shale rush for years to come. This is just one of several bills introduced during the [...]

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Chesapeake Climate Action Network goes Forward on Climate Change

February 26, 2013

Forward on Climate Change Chesapeake  Action Network goes Forward on Climate Letter from Mike Tidwell, Director, February 24, 2013 We made history together last Sunday in Washington. Despite freezing temperatures and bitter wind, our movement for climate action came together — in bigger numbers and with bigger heart than I’ve ever seen before. More than [...]

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WV DEP Promises to Deliver Drilling/Fracking Reports to the WV Legislature Soon

February 25, 2013

Two Reports are Late; Third Due in July; Quality vs. Speed From the Article by Pam Kasey for the State Journal, February 21, 2013 Presentations of the status of two studies on horizontal drilling the Legislature expected from the WV Department of Environmental Protection about two months ago were made on February 21st and offered [...]

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