Fracking Wastes From Some Marcellus Wells Are Radioactive

September 4, 2012

The article below is by Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio), September 3, 2012 Millions of barrels of wastewater trucked into Ohio from shale-gas wells in Pennsylvania might be highly radioactive, according to a government study. Radium in one sample of Marcellus shale wastewater, also called brine, that Pennsylvania officials collected in 2009 was 3,609 [...]

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WV Northern Panhandle Chokes On Air Pollution

September 3, 2012

Compressor Station Flare Doctor Says Drilling Making Air Worse CASEY JUNKINS, Staff Writer for the Wheeling Intelligencer & News-Register wrote the following article, as published on September 2nd: During his 30 years practicing medicine in the Wheeling area, Dr. Michael Blatt has routinely treated patients for asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease and other respiratory problems. [...]

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WV Host Farms Program Connects Residents & Researchers

September 2, 2012

Sampling Well Water The following account is condensed from an article by Pam Kasey in the State Journal dated August 28th: Tom Darrah visited Doddridge County recently for water quality sampling, which  he did with efficiency because of the WV Host Farms Program. “We’re hitting the ground running,” he said. A Duke University geologist, his team [...]

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Science News: The Facts About Shale Gas Fracking

September 1, 2012

Gas Shale Fracking To call it a fractious debate is an understatement, according to Rachel Ehrenberg as prepared for publication in the September 8th issue of Science News (Vol. 182, #5, page 20).   A condensed version or preview is provided below: Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, wrenches open rock deep beneath the Earth’s surface, freeing the [...]

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Europe and America Will Get Greater Climate Change Damages

August 31, 2012

George Monbiot of the Guardian (United Kingdom) wrote the following article on August 28th: The belief that Europe and America will be hit least by climate change is in ruins. Yet all we do is try to profit from disaster. There are no comparisons to be made. This is not like war or plague or [...]

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Marcellus Wells in Lewis Wetzel Wildlife Management Area

August 30, 2012

Lewis Wetzel WV State Wildlife Area Jamie Stover of WBOY, Clarksburg, WV, wrote the following article after visiting the Lewis Wetzel Wildlife Management Area, located in southcentral Wetzel County, WV. The Lewis Wetzel Wildlife Management Area is home to a variety of trees and wildlife. It’s also home to several active well sites. The land [...]

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Fracking Centers at Universities Cause More Problems Than They Solve

August 29, 2012

Penn State University Let’s look at the “centers on fracking” at SUNY-Buffalo, the University of Texas, Penn State University, Ohio State University, and West Virginia University.  While the specific mission for each is somewhat unique, they are intended to (1) bring in money from outside the schools, (2) provide a clearinghouse for accurate information, and [...]

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Global Warming is the “Devil in the Details”

August 28, 2012

Global warming is the “devil in the details” of the energy plans now being worked out for the future. With all the statements such as “we have enough gas to last 100 years” and “there is enough coal to last 200 years at the present rate of use” there is a gleeful avoidance of the [...]

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Small Farm Insights: Will Fracking Impact My Family?

August 27, 2012

Frack Dust By Laura Grace Weldon.  The following article has been condensed from a much more comprehensive document, from the perspective of a small farm in eastern Ohio. A dairy farm is the first in our area to begin hydraulic fracturing. This process was developed to extract formerly unattainable gas and oil from rock a [...]

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Washington & Jefferson College Opens New Energy Center

August 26, 2012

W & J College, Washington, PA Michael Bradwell authored the following article in the daily Observer-Reporter of Washington, PA: When Washington & Jefferson College’s Center for Energy Policy & Management officially opened in April with an agenda of policy issues through 2013, at the top of the list was something that was actually begun a [...]

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