Marcellus Drilling Brings Radiation Exposures, May Harm Drinking Water

April 3, 2012

Letter from WV-DEP An article by Tony Rutherford was posted yesterday on the HuntingtonNews.Net so as to analyze the information on radioactive matter in drinking water due to drilling the Marcellus shale for natural gas.  He surveys articles from 2009 and 2010 in the New York Times.  Then he reports: The EPA document (National Enforcement [...]

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FracTracker.org: Mapping West Virginia Marcellus Shale Permits

April 1, 2012

                            The FracTracker Mapping of Marcellus Permits West Virginia Marcellus Shale permits issued by year, show data by county and the latitude and longitude of each permitted location. The red dot above is the geographic centroid for the permits issued for the year [...]

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Gathering,Transmission and Distribution Pipelines for Natural Gas

March 31, 2012

U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Private companies are installing hundreds of small gathering pipelines for the shale gas in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Nationwide, about 240,000 miles of gathering pipelines carry the gases to processing facilities and larger pipelines. These pipelines pass through pasture fields, under roads, through suburban areas and sometimes [...]

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The West Virginia Host Farms Program for Environmental Research

March 30, 2012

The West Virginia Host Farms Program — A Partnership Program Linking WV Landowners to the Environmental Community for the Study of the Impact of Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Development The West Virginia Host Farms Program is a volunteer-based initiative. The goal of the program is to provide opportunities for the environmental community to study the impact of Marcellus shale [...]

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Some Churches Are Involved in Environmental Issues

March 29, 2012

Stewardship of the Earth is hardly a new concept in Christian thought – it’s mentioned in Genesis – but a growing number of religious leaders are getting out of the pew, marching on the picket line, and becoming specific-issue activists. “We’ve seen a transition occur over the last 10 years, particularly in the American evangelical [...]

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Epic Software to Promote Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems

March 28, 2012

Houston Advanced Research Center The Houston Advanced Research Center  has awarded a contract to the “epic software group, inc.” to create an innovative multimedia web application. This application is designed to help the public, the workforce, and government officials by showing many of the new environmentally sustainable technologies now available or being developed in the [...]

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U. S. Forest Service Retains Right to Limit Water Usage for Fracking

March 26, 2012

http://www.therepublic.com/ Federal judge rejects Marcellus drillers’ contempt claim against US Forest Service in Pa. ERIE, Pa. — A federal judge has rejected claims by Marcellus shale drillers that the U.S. Forest Service was in contempt of the judge’s 2009 order requiring the service to start processing drilling requests in the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern [...]

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Gas Drilling Operations Can Be Improved, Says Scott Rotruck of Chesapeake Energy

March 24, 2012

Ed Wade & Rose Baker of Wetzel County, WV Gas Drilling Operations Can Be Improved According to Ken Ward in the Charleston Gazette, the natural gas industry seeks  to keep working to reduce the on-the-ground impacts of the Marcellus Shale drilling boom in West Virginia’s Northern Panhandle. “With natural gas, everybody likes the blue flame,” [...]

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Former U. S. DOE Undersecretary Recommends Substantial Reduction in Hydrocarbon (Fossil) Fuels

March 23, 2012

Dr. Steven Koonin, Institute for Defense Analysis Dr. Steven Koonin, former Undersecretary for Science at the US Department of Energy, delivered the 2012 Dow/Union Carbide Lecture on March 23rd at West Virginia University. The lecture was entitled, “Addressing America’s Energy Challenges.” Koonin currently works at the Institute for Defense Analyses’ Science and Technology Policy Institute in [...]

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Air Pollution Issues Are Many and Varied with Natural Gases

March 22, 2012

Air pollution concerns are many and varied in our society.  A couple of natural gas leaks have recently been reported in the tristate region, i.e. methane with an additive so it can be smelled.  Other dangerous gases are swamp gas and sewer gas, both containing methane and a variety of other organic gases including sulfur [...]

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