WV-DEP Office of Oil & Gas Seeking to Hire More Inspectors

June 8, 2012

Upshur County Drill Site ========================================= WV Department of Environmental Protection: June 8, 2012 ========================================= The DEP is seeking applicants for inspectors in the Office of Oil and Gas to serve in the northern part of the state. Inspectors are responsible for environmental regulatory oversight of oil and gas well drilling and production operations. Additional inspector positions [...]

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Morgantown Moves to Limit Drilling Within the City, Final Vote on July 3rd

June 7, 2012

In the State Journal, Cynthia McCloud has described the June 5th actions of the Morgantown City Council to place limits on drilling and fracking within the city limits by a vote of 7 to 0.  Council members also repealed, on a 6-1 vote, a horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing ban that Monongalia County Circuit Court [...]

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EQT to Aerial Spray Rights-of-Way

June 6, 2012

EQT to Conduct Aerial Spraying of Rights-of-Way as Part of Ongoing Vegetation Control Bloomberg– June 1, 2012 EQT Corporation will use the aerial application of herbicides to help maintain the rights-of-way (ROW) for some of its gas transmission and gathering lines throughout select counties in West Virginia. The ongoing ROW maintenance program is designed to [...]

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Residents Question Air Quality After Black Liquid Spill in Doddridge County

June 6, 2012

Jamie Stover of WBOY News 12 wrote the following story: Center Point, Doddridge County, June 5, 2012 Residents of Broad Run Road in Doddridge County said their road used to be paved until an oil and gas company came in about three years ago and turned it to gravel. “The drilling companies continued to put [...]

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Marcellus Activist Training Workshop Announced

June 4, 2012

The West Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club announced the details of the upcoming Marcellus activist training workshop known as the Marcellus Academy.  Text below is excerpted from the email inviting volunteers to this event. A Weekend of Presentations and Workshops on Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling June 30 – July 1, 2012 at WV Wesleyan [...]

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Families Held at Gunpoint in Fayette County, Pennsylvania

June 3, 2012

—–Original Message—– From: Marigrace Butela Sent: Tue, May 22, 2012 3:14 pm Subject: Families held at Gun Point in Fayette County PA Today was a frightening and horrific experience for David and Linda Headley of Springhill Twp, Fayette County along with friends, Phyllis Carr, husband Larry and granddaughter, 17 year old Rhonda Carr. The Headley’s [...]

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Implementing the WV Natural Gas Horizontal Well Control Act

June 2, 2012

**Here is an update from Lisa A. McClung of the WV Department of Environmental Protection on the STUDIES mandated by the WV Natural Gas Horizontal Well Control Act enacted by the West Virginia Legislature at §22-6A on December 14, 2011**   The new Natural Gas Horizontal Well Control Act enacted by the West Virginia Legislature [...]

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Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Measurements Exceed 400 PPM

June 1, 2012

THE KEELING CURVE The Keeling Curve is a plot of atmospheric carbon dioxide versus time, which has been steadily increasing during the industrial revolution.  A report  from EcoWatch is presented below: Monitoring stations in the Arctic have now confirmed atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements exceeding 400 parts per million (ppm), far past the acknowledged safe limit [...]

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GasFrac is Promoting Fracking with Propane not Water. Is it Safe?

May 31, 2012

In the debate over whether hydraulic fracturing should be allowed in New York State, the need for millions of gallons of water at each well is a major concern, according to Matt Richmond of Radio WSKG.  Now a Canadian company called GasFrac is trying to eliminate the large volume (2 to 8 million gallons) of [...]

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Drilling/Fracking Near WV High Schools of Significant Concern

May 30, 2012

Chesapeake  Well Pad Near Wheeling Park High School The Ohio County Board of Education has written to the WV-DEP regarding a possible Marcellus well pad just 1300 feet from Wheeling Park High School.  The letter has been received said Kathy Cosco of the WV-DEP, according to the Wheeling Intelligencer.  Although the well’s distance from the school [...]

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