WV Man Wants State Supreme Court to Limit Surface Disturbances

July 7, 2012

WV State Supreme Court The following story from the Associated Press has been printed in the Charleston Gazette, the Morgantown Dominion Post, the Huffington Post, and other newspapers.  It deals with an incredibly important and timely issue,  because of the huge area of land disturbed when Marcellus shale drilling and fracking are practiced.  Because the [...]

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American Water Works Association Statement on Hydrofracking

July 6, 2012

The American Water Works Association has joined with the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies and the National Association of Water Companies in issuing a joint policy statement on the protection of drinking water supplies from hydraulic fracturing and associated oil and gas development. The policy statement outlines recommendations to the US Environmental Protection Agency and [...]

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Editorial: Warming Reality has Arrived for Scientist from WV

July 5, 2012

Glaciers Rapidly Thinning As published in the Charleston Gazette on July 2nd, this editorial has a wide scope: A major scientist from West Virginia is rushing to finish his landmark research before global warming wipes out his evidence. Dr. Lonnie Gene Thompson, born on a farm near Gassaway, went to Ohio State University to become [...]

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Public Hearings and Comments on Air Pollution Rules at WV-DEP To July 30th

July 4, 2012

John Benedict, Director, Air Quality WV-DEP The  WV Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled public hearings for its 2013 proposed legislative rules. All hearings will take place at the DEP’s  Charleston  headquarters, located at 601 57th St., S.E., Charleston, . WV, 25304. Oral and written comments will be limited to the proposed revisions and will be made a part of the rulemaking [...]

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Professor Ingraffea Seeks to Debunk Drilling/Fracking Myths

July 3, 2012

Prof. Ingraffea, Keynote Speaker In a public forum this past week, Professor Tony Ingraffea of Cornell University continued his campaign to expose a variety of myths of Marcellus shale drilling and fracking, as explained here.  The excerpts below are intended to summarize his explanations: Natural-gas drilling dates back to 1824, with a traditional fracking technique [...]

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New York DEC Claims They Followed Law in Contacting Gas Drillers

July 2, 2012

New York State Watersheds Glenn Coin, writing in The Post-Standard of Syracuse, NY, wrote the following for June 29, 2012: The NY Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) was just following the law when it showed gas drillers summaries of draft hydrofracking regulations last year before the regulations were made public, an agency spokeswoman said. An [...]

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Drillers vs. US Forest Service in Court Battle to Frack Allegheny National Forest

July 1, 2012

The Allegheny Defense Project has provided this report, abbreviated below from its appearance in EcoWatch.org: A federal judge has scheduled argument for July 2, 2012 (9 a.m., in the Erie Federal Courthouse) regarding recent motions in litigation over oil and gas drilling in the Allegheny National Forest. U.S. District Court Judge Sean McLaughlin ordered the [...]

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Clean Air Council Seeks Federal Help on Marcellus Air Pollution

June 30, 2012

Edna Molten, Washington County, Pennsylvania Susan Phillips of StateIm­pact Pennsylvania has reported this story on the blog for National Public Radio and interested readers. Res­i­dents in the vil­lage of Rae, in Wash­ing­ton County, say they have com­plained to the PA DEP of bad odors they think are related to gas drilling. Edna Moten says they’ve [...]

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WV Water Research Institute Receives Funding to Expand the QUEST Water Quality Monitoring Program

June 29, 2012

The QUEST Water Quality Monitoring Program MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – A $700,000 grant to West Virginia University’s Water Research Institute from the Colcom Foundation will allow for the continuation and expansion of the award-winning water quality monitoring and reporting program known as QUEST – Quality Useful Environmental Study Teams. Originally focused on the Monongahela River Basin, [...]

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EIA Estimates WV Marcellus Natural Gas Reserves at 8.9 Trillion Cubic Feet

June 29, 2012

Pam Kasey, writing for the State Journal, has described the recent estimate for the Marcellus technically recovered reserves of natural gas. Here is her description: West Virginia’s Marcellus shale resource is estimated at 8.9 trillion cubic feet in the June 25 release of the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Annual Energy Outlook. In July 2011, the [...]

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