WV-DEP Public Notice – Input on Revisions to Water Quality Standards Due by October 12th

October 10, 2012

==================================== WV – Department of Environmental Protection Deadline for Comments:  Friday, October 12th. ===================================== This is a reminder that the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is soliciting public input on potential revisions to the state’s water quality standards, which will be under review as part of the 2014 Triennial Review process. The state is [...]

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EDITORIAL: Safeguarding the Environment

October 9, 2012

The following editorial was carried by the Wheeling Intelligencer on October 8th: Americans need the enormous new supplies of natural gas being found in this region of the country. West Virginians and Ohioans need the jobs that come with gas drilling and processing. Local and state economies need the boosts that come from the industry. [...]

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Review Set for Sunoco Pipeline to Transport Ethane & Propane Across PA

October 8, 2012

Sunoco Mariner East Pipeline Rossilynne Skena is the writer of this story for the Tribune-Review newspaper of Greensburg,  PA  (Westmoreland County) as published on October 8th. Westmoreland County residents who live in the path of a proposed 45-mile gas pipeline (segment) can discuss the project with Sunoco representatives on Wednesday evening in North Huntingdon Township. [...]

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Planning Underway to Collect Air Quality Data in Ohio County, WV

October 7, 2012

Shelly Hanson has written the following article  for Shale Play Ohio Valley: WHEELING, WV – The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department plans to help West Virginia University researchers collect air quality data related to natural gas drilling. During a regular board of health meeting in September, Administrator Howard Gamble said Somu Chatterjee, regional epidemiologist based at [...]

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Chesapeake Appalachia Fined $600K for Damaging Wetzel County Stream

October 6, 2012

Road Thru Blake Fork (Not) NOTE: The following article by Casey Junkins in the Wheeling Intelligencer today provides a rather complete description of the Blake Fork circumstances in Wetzel County, essentially on the Mason-Dixon line when it is extended to the Ohio River. OCTOBER 6TH — By pleading guilty Friday, Chesapeake Appalachia must pay a [...]

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Doddridge County Commission Denies EQT Drilling Permit in Floodplain

October 5, 2012

WDTV.COM 5 News: Doddridge County Commission Denies EQT Drilling Permit The hearing between the Doddridge County Commission and EQT took place at about 4:00 Friday afternoon. Immediately after the meeting started, the commissioners went into an executive session. After about an hour, the commissioners denied the EQT’s application for a floodplain permit. The battle between the [...]

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“Marcellus at Your Door” in Doddridge County, WV

October 5, 2012

Doddridge County Stream NOTE:  The following article by Diane Pitcock was published this week in the Doddridge County News, West Union, WV. Marcellus at Your Door in Doddridge County  >>>  Standing Firm Against Intimidation This Friday (today), the Doddridge County Commissioners will act in the capacity of an appeals board, when addressing the unresolved matter [...]

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Photography and the Marcellus Shale Debate in Pittsburgh

October 4, 2012

 ”The Marcellus Shale Documentary Project”  is opening October 11th at Filmmakers Galleries in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Horizontal hydraulic-fracturing or “fracking” is the process used to break up rock layers with a pressurized solution of water to retrieve the natural gas deep below. Some people have health and safety concerns partly because of that video. [...]

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Preston Commission Nixes Moratorium Idea; Preston CARES Film Fest & Community Forum October 14th

October 3, 2012

Preston County News WDTV, Channel 5 News:  Report on Preston County Commission About 12 environmental groups are asking county commissions and city councils to support a statewide moratorium on new Marcellus Shale gas permits. The chairman of the West Virginia chapter of the Sierra Club addressed the Preston County Commission on Monday to ask for [...]

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NY-DEC Not Up To The Job – Oil & Gas Industry Influences Regulators

October 2, 2012

Louis Allstadt – Former Mobil Executive NOTE: There was an incredibly well-written article posted on the “DC-Bureau” on October 1st by Peter Mantius.  Excerpts are shown below:  COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Former Mobil Oil Corp. executive Louis W. Allstadt did not start out as an anti-fracking activist. He had to analyze the issue and then switch sides. [...]

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