MOVIE REVIEW: “Promised Land” Comes to Morgantown, WV

January 6, 2013

Promised Land Movie Complex fracking issue buried in Hollywood gloss in ‘Promised Land’ From the Morgantown Dominion Post, by David Beard, January 5, 2013 “Promised Land” is an OK movie — If you see the movie, don’t take the little kids. It’s rated R for heaps of profanity, and they’re not saying “frack.” Promised Land is [...]

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WV DEP Issues New Stormwater Management Guide

January 5, 2013

Stormwater Pond Press Release from the WV-DEP: December 4, 2012. WV DEP Issues New Stormwater Management Guide The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has a new tool to help communities reduce the impacts of polluted stormwater on the state’s streams and rivers. Produced for the WV-DEP by the Center for Watershed Protection, the 500-page [...]

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Chemical Revolution Underway Sparked by Shale Gas Production

January 4, 2013

Ethane Molecule Chemical Revolution Underway Sparked by Shale Gas Production Based upon an article by Ed Crookes, The Financial Times, December 17, 2012 The international chemicals industry is undergoing its most profound upheaval for 75 years, according to Kevin Swift of the American Chemistry Council, a group funded by the chemical industry. Not since the [...]

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David and Goliath Story: Small Towns Versus Big Gas & Bigger Government

January 3, 2013

Myersville Community Meeting IN THE MIDST OF THE FRACKING CONTROVERSY, A RURAL COMMUNITY IN MARYLAND IS AT THE CENTER OF A CLASSIC DAVID AND GOLIATH STORY, PITTING SMALL TOWN AMERICA AGAINST BIG GAS AND EVEN BIGGER GOVERNMENT By Ann Marie Nau, Myersville Citizens for a Rural Community, MD As the controversy surrounding the extraction method [...]

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Who is “Tom Shepstone?” Spokesman for Energy In Depth?

January 2, 2013

 Who is “Tom Shepstone?” Spokesman for Energy In Depth? Commentary by S. Tom Bond, farmer in Lewis County, WV To begin with, who is the man reported to have made these claims: (1) shale drilling helps “the neediest among us,” (2) natural gas drilling is not only environmentally responsible, but essential to health, (3) “hydrofracking improves [...]

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The Chesapeake Climate Action Network in MD, VA, and DC

January 1, 2013

From the New Year’s message of Mike Tidwell, Chesapeake Climate Action Network Greetings for the New Year 2013: In the New Year please consider supporting a group Bill McKibben calls “the best regional global warming organization in the world!” That’s high praise from America’s best-known writer and organizer on climate change. How did CCAN earn [...]

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New Report on Jobs & Job Growth in Oil & Gas Industry

December 31, 2012

IHS Global Insight: Study of Jobs and Job Growth . Data Seconded by EmploymentCrossing Job Research Data . Job search data at Employment Crossing affirms the jobs trend emphasized by the IHS Global Insight report. (The report was funded by the oil and gas industry). PWWEB News, December 26, 2012 A newly released study by IHS [...]

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Drilling & Fracking Related Accidents Continue in Central WV

December 30, 2012

Doddridge Co. Truck Accident, WV Rt. 18 Accidents Continue in Central West Virginia From Reports of the Doddridge County Watershed Association On WV Route 18 not far from West Union in Doddridge County, the recent truck accident was cleaned up and cleared.  A tanker truck ran off the road and turned on its side, as [...]

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Gas Field Workers Cited in Pennsylvania Hospital’s Losses

December 29, 2012

Gas Field Workers Cited in Pennsylvania Hospital’s Losses See AP Article, Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, December 24th JERSEY SHORE, Pa. – The first operating loss in about five years at a north-central Pennsylvania hospital is a sign of the influx of natural gas field workers without health insurance, the facility’s CEO said. Jersey Shore Hospital president and [...]

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Expert Raises New Fears Over Effects of Fracking

December 28, 2012

Expert Raises New Fears Over Effects of Fracking Bath Chronicle, England, UK, December 27th A Bath university expert has expressed concerns about the wider environmental implications of a controversial gas extraction method, shale fracking. Dr David Packham, senior lecturer in materials science at the Claverton Down university, has spoken out about the impact that fracking [...]

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