Penn State Fayette Campus on September 5th

Fayette’s Coal and Coke Heritage Center to host book launch on September 5th for ‘Shale Play’ which depicts life in the Marcellus Shale region through stories, images in new book.

LEMONT FURNACE, Pa. — The Coal and Coke Heritage Center at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, will host the book launch for “Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields,” by Penn State faculty members Julia Kasdorf and Steven Rubin, at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 5th.

“Shale Play,” published by Penn State Press in 2018, gathers stories and images about working people and everyday life from Appalachian Pennsylvania and the Marcellus Shale region.

“The long sleep of the Appalachians has been dramatically interrupted by the sudden discovery of the Marcellus Shale,” said Bill McKibben, author of “The End of Nature.” “This book helps us see and understand what that has meant for the region. It’s a classic tale, with echoes of the region’s past — and deep implications for the planet’s future.”

Kasdorf, an acclaimed poet and professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Penn State, has published three books of poetry: “Sleeping Preacher,” “Eve’s Striptease,” and “Poetry in America.” Her awards include the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the Great Lakes College’s Association Award for New Writing, a Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.

Rubin worked for more than 20 years as a freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer. His photographs have been published in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, and The Village Voice, and internationally in Stern, GEO, Focus, L’Express, and The London Independent Magazine. He is an associate professor of art, specializing in photography, at Penn State.

Kasdorf and Rubin will present and discuss work from the book. Refreshments will be served.This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.psupress.org.

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Shale Play — Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields

New book by Julia Kasdorf and Steven Rubin, Penn State University, Fall 2018

“The long sleep of the Appalachians has been dramatically interrupted by the sudden discovery of the Marcellus Shale. This book helps us see and understand what that has meant for the region. It’s a classic tale, with echoes of the region’s past—and deep implications for the planet’s future.” — Bill McKibben, author of ‘The End of Nature.’

Antero Resources Corporation, a Denver, Colo based oil  and gas production company,  has acquired Bluestone Energy Partners, a privately held West Virginia natural gas producer.   Antero has extensive experience in the Rocky Mountains and mid-continental US.  Founded in 2003 by Paul Rady, a geologist,  and Glen Warren, an investment banker,  the company website boasts that this private company is the 2nd largest producer in the Barnett shale play.

Ellenboro, WV based Bluestone Energy Partners, a leasing and drilling company, was headed by Sam Ross, Mike Hall and Gregory Barton, who now hold an equity position in Antero as part of the buy-out deal.  The Bluestone assets include  properties with production from 93 vertical wells and 3 horizontals wells, gathering and compression assets, and approximately 40,000 net acres in the Marcellus shale play in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.   Following the close of  this acquisition on December 1, 2010,  Antero controls approximately 168,000 net acres in the Marcellus Shale play.   That’s a small number relative to the holdings of big players EQT, Range Resources  and Chesapeake Energy.  Chesapeake, for example, holds 1.3 million net acres.

Click here for full press release, including financial terms of the acquisition.