Video for Landowners Taking a Stand Against Fracking

August 15, 2012

Click here to see the video. Responsible Associated Landowners of New York State Bill Feldman of Andes Works! describes the Responsible Associated Landowners of New York State, or REALNYS, as “a site by and for like-minded landowners who are against slick water, high volume hydrofracturing (fracking) of our lands to extract shale gas and oil.” [...]

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Dominion’s Natrium Facility in Marshall County (WV) Employing 600 People

August 14, 2012

Natrium Separation Plant Fractionation Plant will need 45 permanent employees This story is from the article of Casey Junkins, for the Wheeling Intelligencer, published on August 13th. NATRIUM – A small city is forming along W.Va. Route 2 in Marshall County, as the number of pipeliners and construction workers building the $500 million Dominion Resources [...]

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The Marcellus Shale Industry May Now Be Too Large to Fail

August 13, 2012

MORGANTOWN DOMINION POST Sunday 12 August 2012:   GUEST COMMENTARY Is The Shale Industry Too Big to Fail, Now? BY S. THOMAS BOND     The shale drilling industry is obviously overbuilt. Over production of natural gas saturated the market and the price of gas has declined to the point many wells already drilled are now not [...]

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Marcellus Shale Gas Boom Boosts Construction in WV

August 13, 2012

Bluefield Daily Telegraph :   August 12, 2012 When the financial storm better known as the Great Recession took root in 2007, the nation’s robust construction industry took a direct hit. The economic meltdown forced businesses to halt expansion and relocation plans, and new housing construction also slowed. The impact was felt locally as well, with [...]

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A Few Environmentalists in New York State may Accept Fracking

August 11, 2012

Sarah Laskow of Capital -  New York published the following article on August 9th after finding a few people in the Southern Tier of New York State that see fracking as positive on balance in spite of many environmental issues.  These people apparently have not yet experienced Marcellus drilling and fracking in its full blown [...]

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McKinley-WVU Forum had Main Focus on WV Coal and Gas

August 10, 2012

The “Forum Looking at America’s Energy Roadmap to 2050,” hosted at West Virginia University by Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va. and WVU President James Clements was held in Morgantown this past Monday. Limited seating resulted in standing room only for many observers. “This is what we’ve needed to do,” said McKinley. He joked that, as one [...]

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Commentary: From “Resource Curse” to Economic Blessing

August 9, 2012

Prof. Joseph Stiglitz By Prof.  Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University           Kampala, Uganda – Discoveries of natural resources in several African countries – including Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique – raise an important question: Will these windfalls be a blessing that brings prosperity and hope, or a political and economic curse, as has been the case [...]

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Commentary to “Get It Right on Gas”

August 8, 2012

The recent column in the New York Times by Tom Friedman entitled “Get It Right on Gas” is of particular interest to me. I have spent a lifetime farming in West Virginia in the Marcellus area and enjoy the benefit of a good education, BS in Chemistry and Math, MS in Education and a Ph. D. [...]

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Substantial Water Pollution Risk from Hydraulic Fracturing

August 7, 2012

Water Pollution Risks from Fracking     In a paper titled “Water Pollution Risk Associated with Natural Gas Extraction from the Marcellus Shale,” which appears in the August 2012 issue of the journal Risk Analysis, published by the Society for Risk Analysis, Stony Brook doctoral student Daniel Rozell, P.E., and Sheldon Reaven, Ph.D., a professor in [...]

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Delaware Corporate Taxes – Another Shale Gas Industry Loophole

August 6, 2012

Delaware Corporate Taxes Are Very Low By Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog, 08-03-12 Most people think of downtown Houston, Texas as ground zero for the oil and gas industry. Houston, after all, serves as home base for corporate headquarters of oil and gas giants, including the likes of BP America, ConocoPhillips and Shell Oil Company, to name a few. Comparably speaking, [...]

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