WV Legislative Audit of Office of Oil & Gas Focuses on Three Issues

October 1, 2012

WV State Capitol Building EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Agency Review: WV-DEP, Office of Oil and Gas The Legislative Auditor has conducted a performance evaluation of the Office of Oil and Gas (OOG) as part of the Agency Review of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) authorized pursuant to West Virginia Code §4-10-8. The report contains [...]

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Commentary: If We Continue to Rely Primarily on Fossil Fuels, “We Are Cooked”

September 30, 2012

Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research BY S. THOMAS BOND We’re Cooked, Ladies and Gentlemen (This Commentary appeared in the Opinion section, Morgantown Dominion Post, Sept. 30, 2012.) There was an interesting film called SWITCH shown at the Mountainlair at WVU on Tuesday night. In the guise of an objective analysis of energy options for the future, [...]

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Range Resources sets Mariner East Project and New Ethane Sales

September 29, 2012

Mariner East Project BUSINESS WIRE is reporting a news release as excerpted below, dated September 26th: RANGE RESOURCES has announced that a subsidiary has signed a 15-year agreement with Sunoco Logistics Partners to become the anchor shipper on the Mariner East Project subject to final approval by FERC. The Mariner East Project is a pipeline, [...]

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Post Carbon Institute: Can Fracking Bring Energy Independence?

September 28, 2012

New book on Alternative Energy Sources Post Carbon Institute has provided the following article: Post Carbon Institute‘s Fossil Fuels Fellow David Hughes is currently researching and writing Drill, Baby, Drill: Can Unconventional Fossil Fuels Usher in an Era of Energy Independence? Slated for a January 2013 release, the report findings refute fossil fuel industry claims [...]

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Pro-Drilling Group Plans Town Hall Meetings in West Virginia

September 27, 2012

Energize WV WVmetronews.com is reporting the following news article information: The non-profit group, Energize West Virginia, formed to promote the natural gas industry, has been holding a series of town hall meetings around the state. The first was held in Morgantown back in July. Since then, the group has met with concerned residents in Moundsville, [...]

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PennEnvironment Center Reports ‘hidden costs’ in Gas Drilling and Fracking

September 26, 2012

PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center Don Hopey, writing in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on September 22nd, provided the primary portion of the information below: A PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center report has identified more than a dozen categories of hidden costs — including aquifer contamination, human health problems and damage to roadways, home values and natural [...]

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WV Supreme Court to Hear Case on Landowner’s Appeal of Gas-Drilling Permit(s)

September 25, 2012

Landowners are fighting for the right to appeal drilling permits, as described in the Charleston Gazette on September 22nd. The state Supreme Court will hear arguments in a significant case that could decide if surface landowners are able to appeal oil and gas drilling permits on their land. Industry lobbyists and the state Department of [...]

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Technical Lecture in Pittsburgh on “Ethylene Production Technology”

September 24, 2012

Industry along Ohio River American Chemical Society   Energy Technology Group   Tuesday, October 9, 2012 “Ethylene Production Technology”  Jeffrey J. Siirola, PhD, Purdue University & Carnegie Mellon University Jeff Siirola retired in 2011 as a Technology Fellow at Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport Tennessee where he had been for more than 39 years. He [...]

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Thousands Rally Around the World to Ban Fracking

September 23, 2012

Philadelphia Shale Gas Outrage Rally Thousands Rally in “Global Frackdown” Saturday people from all over the world hosted events to ban fracking. From New York, Raleigh, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and San Francisco, across the U.S. to Cape Breton (Nova Scotia), to Capetown (South Africa), and in Europe, people gathered to protect human health and the environment [...]

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Pennsylvania Governor Corbett’s Reasoning On Marcellus Shale

September 22, 2012

Commentary by S. Tom Bond,  Lewis County, WV Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, has characterized persons criticizing shale drilling as “unreasoning opposition,” according to an article  in the Canon McMillan Patch. Coreitt, who has managed to “tic off” about everybody outside the shale drilling industry and its minions, from the American Planning Association to [...]

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