Chesapeake Energy is Renegotiating Some Shale Gas Leases in Ohio

July 17, 2012

Chesapeake Energy Campus in Oklahoma The article by Daniel Gilbert has been exerpted below, from the Wall Street Journal of July 16, 2012. Chesapeake Energy Corp. is pushing Ohio landowners to accept revised lease contracts that would help the cash-strapped driller save money while holding on to its prized oil and gas fields. The company’s [...]

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Decline in Marcellus Drilling/Fracking due to Natural Gas Surplus

July 16, 2012

Wet vs. Dry Gas Boundary Courtesy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, this article by Carl Romanos appeared in the blog PIPELINE on July 12th. This blog is “your source of Marcellus Shale coverage & community.”   Please consult this blog for valuable information. Recent data suggests that that the Marcellus Shale natural gas industry may have done [...]

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The Nationwide Insurance Company has Major Concerns about Fracking

July 15, 2012

EcoWatch, July 13, 2012 National Casualty, an insurance company that operates under the umbrella of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., has officially become the first major insurer to announce that it won’t cover damages related to fracking operations. According to a statement released by the company, “From an underwriting standpoint, we do not have a comfort [...]

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Comments on the EQT Siting of 12 Gas Wells in Doddridge County, WV  

July 14, 2012

  EQT has sited 12 wells in a flood plain in Doddridge county, which may involve 60,000 cubic yards of fill into the flood plain. There has been flooding 3 times in the past ten years in this area.  An illinformed county official OK’d the site, jeopardizing the chances of families from obtaining flood insurance [...]

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An Explanation of the Microbial Complications of Fracking

July 13, 2012

An Explanation of the Microbial Complications of Fracking By Jeffrey Marlow for Wired Science Several years ago, land owners in the forested rolling hills of West Virginia started getting unannounced visitors.  They would examine the land, the soil, the trees, and offer to lease part of the property for $7 per acre up-front, plus a [...]

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Gas Industry Truck Wreck on I-79 Fatal to Driver

July 12, 2012

The 24 year old driver of a 2008 Ford F-350 Super Duty truck lost control, rolled the truck and was killed while going northbound on I-79 near the WV-PA state line shortly after 6 am yesterday, Wednesday, July 11th.  Apparently, the driver fell asleep at the wheel.  His passenger was not seriously injured, according to [...]

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Reflections on a Town Hall Meeting of Energize West Virginia

July 11, 2012

The Energize West Virginia with Natural Gas town hall meeting at the Morgantown Ramada Inn Tuesday evening, July 10th, must have been amusing to anyone aware of plays with words. The world consists of an exterior reality, which we try to duplicate with words to communicate with others. The dissonance between the shale gas industry [...]

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Sand Land: Frac Sand Mining in Western Wisconsin – Video Report

July 10, 2012

The rush to drill for unconventional gas, enabled by a process popularly known as “fracking,” or hydraulic fracturing, has brought with it much collateral damage. Close observers know about contaminated water, earthquakes, and climate change impacts of the shale gas boom, but few look at the entire life cycle of fracking from cradle to grave. [...]

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Anti-fracking Blockade in Moshannon State Forest of Northcentral PA

July 9, 2012

Marcellus EarthFirst! Blockade The Web-site for the Earth First organization presents the following information: Tree-Sitters Halt Fracking Operations in PA Forest Activists from Marcellus Earth First! have erected a slash pile blockade and two tree sits blocking an access road to an EQT hydro-fracking site in Moshannon State Forest in Clearfield County, PA., halting drilling operations [...]

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Wise Advice on the Regulation of Natural Gas Drilling/Fracking

July 8, 2012

Jody Freeman, Harvard Law School Jody Freeman, a Harvard law professor, was the White House counselor for energy and climate change in 2009 and 2010. Here is her letter to the New York Times entitled “The Wise Way to Regulate Gas Drilling:” AMERICA’S energy future has been transformed by the production of natural gas made [...]

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