Miles Completed Don’t Measure Ultimate Status of MVP (42” Pipe)

March 11, 2022

Completion of the MVP is Unlikely Now From Letter to the Editor by Katie Whitehead, Danville Register & Bee, March 10, 2022 Mountain Valley Pipeline continues to mislead the public about the status of its 303-mile mainline project by pointing to miles of felled trees and pipe strung from northwestern West Virginia into Pittsylvania County. [...]

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PTTGC Seeks New Air Pollution Permit for Ethane Cracker in Ohio Valley

March 10, 2022

Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical submits new application for air permit on Ohio cracker project From an Article by Renzo Pipoli, Reuters News Service, March 8, 2022 Thailand-based PTTGC’s late February announcement followed several months without information on a project to build an ethane cracker and a 1.6-million-tonnes polyethylene plant in Belmont County, Ohio. It was [...]

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The Ukraine Will Not Be Helped by Fracking in West Virginia

March 9, 2022

Fracked Gas in Appalachia won’t help Ukraine, but does hurt our communities From an Essay by Anaïs Peterson, Pittsburgh Tribune Review (TribLIVE), March 9, 2022 On Feb. 28, president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition David Callahan took to the press to exploit Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an excuse to advance the coalition’s agenda to [...]

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WEBINAR R.S.V.P. ~ Tackling the A-Z Impacts of Plastics [Beaver County, PA]

March 8, 2022

To: Friends and Concerned Residents of Pennsylvania, Ohio & West Virginia From the Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community, March 8, 2022 As the world shifts from fossil fuel-based energy and transportation, plastics are the petrochemical industry’s Plan B, with more plastics infrastructure being built every year. Plastics and the climate crisis go hand in hand: [...]

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Marion Energy Partners LLC; Science Facility (“data center”) ~ Permit No. R13-3533

March 7, 2022

WV Air Quality Final Determination & Response to Comments – Science Facility for Morgantown Industrial Park From the Division of Air Quality, WV Department of Environmental Protection, March 7, 2022 Pursuant to 45 CSR §13-8.8, the Division of Air Quality presents the FINAL DETERMINATION for the Construction Permit for Marion Energy Partners LLC —Science Facility, [...]

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WEST VIRGINIA’s Attorney General vs. U.S. EPA ~ “A Monster of a Case”

March 6, 2022

LIVING ON EARTH ~ U.S. Supreme Court Could Shackle the EPA From PRX at the University of Massachusetts, Boston this is Living on Earth. CURWOOD: I’m Steve Curwood. Congress has yet to enact comprehensive climate legislation, so if the Biden administration wants to set America on track for net zero carbon emissions by 2050 it [...]

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# 7,000 Risks of Geohazards in Appalachia involve Erosion & Landslides (also Earthquakes & Fires)

March 5, 2022

All Pipeline & Transmission Line Infrastructure in Appalachia at Risk From an Article by Andreas Exarheas, Rigzone Energy News, March 02, 2022 Quite literally all of the pipeline infrastructure – as well as roads, electric transmission, and other assets – in the Appalachia area is at risk due to geohazards. That’s according to Toby Kraft, [...]

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‘Forced Pooling’ is Now ‘Forced Unitization’ for Drilling & Fracking

March 4, 2022

West Virginia Senate Bill 694 on Forced Unitization Is OK Article by Dave McMahon, Co-Founder of WV Surface Owners Rights Organization (WVSORO), March 4, 2022 Methane gas originates in shale formations laid down eons ago. Over the eons some of it creeps towards the surface and is sometimes trapped on its way upward in a [...]

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UNITED NATIONS Seeks to “End Plastic Pollution” by 2024

March 3, 2022

U.N. adopts historic resolution aimed at ending plastic pollution From an Article by Tik Root, Washington Post, March 2, 2022 For the first time, the international community has agreed on a framework to curb the world’s growing plastic problem. A resolution adopted March 2nd by the United Nations lays out an ambitious plan for developing [...]

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WEBINAR SESSIONS ~ Using Maps & Data to Empower Action in the Marcellus Region

March 2, 2022

Halt the Harm Network & FracTracker Offer Multiple Sessions on Maps & Data To: Regional Friends and Concerned Residents ~ March 2, 2022 In next week’s webinar, Using Maps & Data to Empower Action, Halt the Harm Network will join FracTracker’s mapping team as they show you how to harness the power of maps and [...]

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