National Resources Defense Council: Community Fracking Defense Project

September 21, 2012

Various Shale Zones The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has announced the creation of its Community Fracking Defense Project, which will provide legal and policy assistance to towns and local governments seeking added control or protections from hydraulic fracturing in their communities. Most natural gas extraction today involves hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, an extraction technique [...]

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Could New England Need Too Much Natural Gas This Winter?

September 20, 2012

“Iso New England” has recently published a draft report raising the specter of a period of severe winter weather without electricity in New England. The gas supply pipelines may soon lack capacity to carry enough energy to heat homes and generate electricity. This is unlikely at present, but possible changes could allow it to happen, [...]

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Review of Marcellus Drilling Permits in Northcentral West Virginia

September 19, 2012

Marion County WV The following information is from the September 19th article “Gas permit applications flat in Mon” by David Beard in the Morgantown Dominion Post newspaper.  Please consult this source for further details on this topic. Monongalia County continues to see a lull in horizontal gas well permitting, though neighboring Preston and Marion counties [...]

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Complaint Filed Against Penn State University with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education

September 18, 2012

RDA files complaint . . . Complaint filed by the Responsible Drilling Alliance The Responsible Drilling Alliance, a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization in Williamsport, PA, has filed a complaint against Penn State University. They are asking the Middle States Commission on Higher Education to consider this complaint in the context of the accreditation review of Penn State [...]

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“Switch” Film on Future of Energy to Preview at WVU in Morgantown

September 18, 2012

The West Virginia University community will get an advance screening of a new feature-length documentary exploring the future of energy in conjunction with a future speaker in the David C. Hardesty Festival of Ideas on September 25th. Switch, from Arcos Films, exploring the future of energy through the eyes of Scott Tinker, Ph.D., an internationally [...]

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IOGA to Sponsor “Leadership Academy” at WV Wesleyan College

September 17, 2012

NOTE: Please read the excerpts below from an article of September 15th which originated with IOGA.  Here we have a blatant case of indoctrination, what we used to call brainwashing, planned for our finest teachers and our finest students.  Can you believe that the oil and gas industry would actually pay for a program that was [...]

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WV-DEP Report on Abandoned O&G Wells Reveals Enforcement Problems

September 16, 2012

Abandoned Well EDITORIAL, Morgantown Dominion Post, September 14, 2012 A Groundswell of Skepticism – the report that spotlights abandoned oil and gas wells casts a  shadow on the lack of enforcement. In the beginning, we probably thought: What could ever go wrong for the oil and gas industry? But occasionally, a report comes along that [...]

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Politics is Playing a Major Role in the Shale Drilling Industry

September 15, 2012

This commentary is by S. Tom Bond of Jane Lew, WV Recently an acquaintance was in a car dealer’s showroom waiting for repairs. Four “rough looking” young men came in she said, and made it known to all they were there for three identical large pickups. Obviously, they were with the Marcellus industry. This brought [...]

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Fossil Fuel Ads Dominate Presidential TV Campaign

September 14, 2012

With nearly two months before Election Day on November 6th, estimated spending on television ads promoting coal and more oil and gas drilling or criticizing alternative energy has exceeded $153 million this year, according to an analysis by The New York Times of 138 ads on energy issues broadcast this year by the presidential campaigns, [...]

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WV-DEP Hearing in Ohio County Used to Air Drilling Health Claims

September 13, 2012

WV-DEP Hearing near Wheeling on Sept.  12th  Dr. Michael Blatt, Blanche Rybeck, Bill Hughes and others say air pollution from Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling is an issue environmental regulators need to take seriously, at the WV-DEP hearing on September 12th, as reported in the Wheeling Intelligencer. “Because we cannot absolutely prove that this is going to [...]

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