Lewis Wetzel Wildlife Management Area Hit by Drilling & Fracking Activities

May 29, 2012

THIS REPORT is from the Public News Service – WV on May 29, 2012: CHARLESTON, W.Va. – People living near a state wildlife preserve are complaining that it is being torn up by natural gas drilling & fracking operations. The state of West Virginia does not own the mineral rights for the Lewis Wetzel Wildlife [...]

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Ohio’s State Assembly Passed the Fracking Bill (SB 315)

May 28, 2012

Ohio SB 315 is one of the worst fracking laws in the nation .  .  . The bill heading to Gov. Kasich’s desk fails to reinvest in Ohio communities, fails to adequately protect them from the toxic impacts of the fracking industry, and fails to help Ohio address the growing climate crisis. Ohio will allow bigger [...]

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Memorial Day: An Organic Farm Inviolate of Gas Drilling

May 28, 2012

Paradise Gardens and Farm 2771 Paradise Road Reynoldsville, PA 15851 By: Stephen Cleghorn On May 12, 2012 my wife Lucinda’s remains (her ashes) will be laid to rest as protector of this organic farm and all its inhabitants – human, animal and plants – in perpetuity.  Amidst the tearful and joyful celebration of the life [...]

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Washington County PA Families Sue Over Fracking & Water Testing

May 26, 2012

Don Hopey in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has reported an interesting story, presented below: Three Washington County families claim in a lawsuit that they face serious health problems, including a heightened risk of cancer, due to exposure to toxic spills, leaks and air pollutants from a Range Resources Marcellus Shale gas site. The 182-page lawsuit, filed [...]

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How Can We Cope with the Dirty Water from Fracking?

May 25, 2012

Here is an update on water pollution from shale gas fracking, as published in Scientific American magazine. The nation’s oil and gas wells produce billions of gallons of contaminated water each day, according to an Argonne National Laboratory report. And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine, fracking fluid and other contaminated water [...]

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Marcellus Drilling Applications Accumulate in WV, Problems Exits with Inspectors and with Some Permits

May 24, 2012

The WV-DEP says permits for horizontal gas wells are coming in faster than they’re being processed. Secretary Randy Huffman said he has a backlog of more than 250 permits, but hopes to have it under control by the end of the summer. The DEP has gotten more money for staff, but Huffman said he’s having [...]

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Good News on Geothermal Energy from Workshop at Flatwoods, WV

May 23, 2012

Earth’s Temperature Jefferson Tester of Cornell University has recommended a path to 100,000 megawatts of electrical power from geothermal energy by 2050, according to Pam Kasey in the State Journal.  For comparison, the Ft. Martin power plant is the largest power plant in Monongalia County, at about 1100 megawatts.  Tester led a national panel hosted [...]

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The Proposed Sand Hill Compressor Station Identical to the Battle Run Facility in Ohio County, WV

May 22, 2012

Ohio County, WV, May 21, 2012 – According to the Wheeling Intelligencer, as a sign the company plans to soon begin pumping large amounts of natural gas through the Ohio Valley, Chesapeake Energy is building another compressor station in the Sand Hill area. “The Battle Run (near The Highlands) and Sand Hill sites will be [...]

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Concerned Residents Hold Church Service at New Ohio Wastewater Injection Well

May 21, 2012

Vienna Township, Ohio — About 20 residents of Trumbull County and surrounding areas gathered in prayer Saturday at a newly operating fracking wastewater injection well site. According to event organizers from Ohio Fracktion, the service was designed “to pay respects to those who have died of cancer, who are experiencing neurological damage, who have chronic [...]

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Time Magazine’s ‘Golden Age’ of Fracking Neglects Climate Change

May 20, 2012

Jim Naureckas in the blog entitled Fair.org has pointed out an incredibly important omission on the part of Time magazine in the current cover story:  You have to wonder: Do journalists covering energy issues imagine they and their loved ones are going to be living on another planet in the not-too-distant future? That seems like the only [...]

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