Senate Drags Feet on Select Committee Meeting (amended)

November 2, 2011

This post has been amended for the insertion of editorial comments (4th paragraph) and replaces previous post.  DJF Although the November interim legislative sessions are approaching, the Joint Select Committe on Marcellus Shale may not have a completed draft bill ready for the review of the West Virginia Legislature.   Committee co-chair Delegate Tim Manchin [...]

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“Drilling Down on Marcellus” Workshop Held at WVU College of Law

October 29, 2011

Views at the symposium ranged from guarded optimism to hope-tinged cynicism, according to David Beard of the Morgantown Dominion Post. Much was familiar: Let’s regulate, let’s protect people and the environment, let’s make money. But one lawyer worried that West Virginia may be institutionally incapable of getting things right. One economist offered a less-than-rosy possibility of [...]

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U.M.R.A. Hosts Annual Meeting in West Virginia for Army Corps of Engineers

October 26, 2011

The annual Morgantown meeting of the US Army Corps of Engineers was held at the Morgantown Airport today, hosted by the Upper Monongahela River Association. This meeting spanned over three hours and included a number of talks that relate to Marcellus shale development. Concerns for excessive water withdrawals, impacts of chemicals in the streams, contamination [...]

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There’s Real Green Energy Under Our Feet

October 26, 2011

Natural gas burns cleaner than coal, but West Virginia can do better when it comes to energy production.  Last October, researchers at Southern Methodist University, funded by Google, announced that West Virginia sits atop the major geothermal hot spot of the East Coast.  Take a look at the map to see how special that really is. [...]

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Morgantown City Council Studies Marcellus Impacts

October 25, 2011

The Mon Valley Clean Air Coalition presented the following statement to the Morgantown City Council this evening regarding the two Marcellus wells at the Morgantown Industrial Park: “In summary, continuous emission monitoring is needed at the site, and ambient monitors at upwind and downwind locations are needed to verify that off-site concentrations do not cause [...]

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Keep Your Eye on the Bill

October 24, 2011

Delegate Tim Manchin, co-chair of the Select Committee on Marcellus Shale says public outcry over Marcellus Shale has made it increasingly more important that legislation be passed.  Despite committed work on the bill, the committee was unable to create a final product at last week’s interim session. With only four amendments left to discuss, co-chairman Senator [...]

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EPA to Regulate Fracking Waste Water Disposal by 2014

October 20, 2011

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced today that the agency will draft federal standards to regulate the disposal of waste water produced by coal bed methane and shale gas wells.  Jackson said that, “We can protect the health of American families and communities at the same time we ensure access to all of the important resources that [...]

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What do Gas Pipelines Mean for West Virginia?

October 20, 2011

Natural gas pipeline projects are in the works. There were two stories on Oct. 17th by Casey Junkins in the Wheeling based newspaper, The Intelligencer. One story described plans for a new pipeline to carry raw natural gas from wellheads to processing plants in Marshall County. The other story dealt with the announcement of plans [...]

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Exporting Natural Gas is Planned

October 20, 2011

Indian Corp. Seeks to Secure Import Rights in US, Australia Petronet, India’s largest importer of liquified natural gas (LNG), is maneuvering to acquire capacity in the proposed LNG terminals in the Unites Sates and Australia, The Economic Times reported. “Five projects (in the US) have applied to US authorities for approval to export gas,” Petronet [...]

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Fight Brewing in Dimock over Gas-Fouled Water

October 18, 2011

Cabot wants to resume drilling and fracking for natural gas in Dimock, Pa., one of the locales featured in the acclaimed documentary Gasland.  But residents are not satisfied with the measures that Cabot has taken to remediate the contamination of their drinking water.  Residents noticed problems with their drinking water three years ago, and tests [...]

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