Shale Drillers Planning to Move Wastewater on River Barges

December 17, 2012

Barge spills do occur Fracking Wastewater Barge Transport in Planning Phase Excerpted Article By Emily DeMarco of PublicSource on December 16, 2012 The shale gas drilling industry wants to move its wastewater by barge on rivers and lakes across the country. But the U.S. Coast Guard, which regulates the nation’s waterways, must first decide whether it’s [...]

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Shale Gas Drilling: Better Landowner Legislation Needed

December 16, 2012

Shale Gas Drilling: Better Landowner Legislation Needed Letter to the Editor, Charleston (WV) Gazette, December 14, 2012 By Letty Butcher, Independence, Preston County, WV An article in the November 26th Charleston Gazette, “Court suggests lawmakers revisit appeals of drilling permits,” by Ken Ward Jr., reports that, “The West Virginia Supreme Court is urging lawmakers to [...]

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Chesapeake Energy Offers Buyouts to 275 Employees

December 15, 2012

Chesapeake Energy Offers Buyouts Primary Article by Anya Litvak, Reporter for the Pittsburgh Business Times, December 14th Chesapeake Energy, the largest lease holder in the Marcellus Shale region, is asking 275 of its employees to voluntarily leave the company. The voluntary separation program is “part of the company’s ongoing efforts to improve efficiencies and reduce [...]

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Universities Testing Water From Ohio, Monongahela & Allegheny Rivers

December 14, 2012

Universities Testing Water Three Rivers QUEST Program Primarily from article by Casey Junkins, Wheeling Intelligencer, December 10, 2012 Saying they want to prevent carcinogenic trihalomethanes from forming in the region’s water supply, officials with West Virginia University and Wheeling Jesuit University are checking major rivers for pollution. Wheeling Jesuit biology professor Ben Stout joined others [...]

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Drilling Methane Emissions Lawsuit: New York And 6 Other States To Sue EPA

December 13, 2012

Plots for CO2, CH4, Nitrous Oxide New Lawsuit Challenges Methane Emissions from Shale Gas Development Exerpted from the article by Kevin Begos, Huffington Post, 12-12-12 Seven Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states have announced plans to sue the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying it is violating the Clean Air Act by failing to address methane emissions [...]

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Fracking Flyover Part II—The Destructive Realities of Hydraulic Fracturing

December 12, 2012

Stone Energy’s Howell Pad — 16 acres of disturbance Fracking Flyover Part II By  David Manthos, SkyTruth, December 12, 2012 Last week I posted Part I of our LightHawk flight over West Virginia’s most active unconventional gas field in Wetzel County. Part I highlighted what an actual hydraulic fracturing job looks like and illustrated a [...]

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U.S. EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Update

December 11, 2012

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Update Greetings, Important information about EPA’s series of technical roundtables and workshops for the hydraulic fracturing study has been posted online at EPA’s Hydraulic Fracturing Study website. We encourage people to visit this site for the latest news about upcoming workshops as well as materials from the [...]

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The Air Quality is Studied at Drill Sites in Ohio County, WV

December 10, 2012

Photoionization Detector Air Quality Monitoring Near Marcellus Well Pads Exerpted from an article in the Wheeling Intelligencer by Tyler Reynard, December 10th WHEELING, WV.   West Virginia University and the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department are gathering data to determine if drilling for natural gas impacts the local air quality. “We want to eventually be able to [...]

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‘Americans Against Fracking’ Calls for a Ban on Fracking in the U.S.

December 10, 2012

Source: Americans Against Fracking A group of more than 100 public health, consumer, environmental and faith-based organizations announced today the launch of Americans Against Fracking, a national coalition dedicated to banning hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and drilling associated with fracking for oil and natural gas in the U.S. Including organizations such as 350.org, Berks Gas [...]

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The Advertising for Natural Gas from Shale Drilling and Fracking

December 9, 2012

Commentary by S. Tom Bond of Lewis County, WV. The United States seems to be moving back toward the Middle Ages when truth came from Authority – meaning the Medieval Church and the King, who was essentially anyone who, with his buddies, could field more thugs than anyone else. “True” statements then involved no necessity [...]

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