Major Water Withdrawal for Gas Drilling from the Moundsville, WV Reservoir Concerns Local Officials
City officials in Moundsville (Marshall County), WV had a scare recently, and with good cause.
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CONSOL Energy | Energy Companies | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Statewide WV | West Virginia
Dunkard Creek Fish Kill Mystery Solved – And it Had Nothing to Do with Marcellus Drilling
There was a lot of speculation in 2009 about a fish kill over a 30-mile stretch of Dunkard Creek in West Virginia. We now know that the cause was leakage from coal mines. But early on, wild theories were being spun. Our favorite was that the algae killing the fish, which grows only in salty water and is not native to any place in West Virginia, somehow hitchhiked to the area on Marcellus Shale drilling rigs coming from Texas and Oklahoma. Science has finally won out over fairytale, and now CONSOL Energy will pay:
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Drilling Road Damage in Marshall County, WV
Where there’s drilling in rural areas with heavy trucks traveling the roadways, there will be road damage. The two go together, unfortunately. From Cameron (Marshall County), West Virginia:
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Small Town in West Virginia Bans Marcellus Drilling Inside City Limits
The city of Lewisburg (Greenbrier County), WV, population 3,624 has banned “any further drilling” in the city limits with respect to the Marcellus Shale.
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Will Marcellus Shale Drilling Come to a “Grinding Halt” in West Virginia?
MDN is not sure how much sway the editorial pages of local newspapers hold when it comes to policy-making in state government (we suspect not much). But it is noteworthy that the Register-Herald (Beckley, West Virginia) is urging a moratorium on any new Marcellus Shale drilling in the state until the legislature can reconvene in special session and pass laws addressing concerns over Marcellus drilling in the state.
The WV legislature recently ended their regular session without passing new regulations for Marcellus drilling, which prompted acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to instruct the state DEP to regulate drilling on their own (see here). The Register-Herald doesn’t like that idea and wants to see the legislature take another crack at passing new laws:
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West Virginia Gov. Tomblin Says He Will Regulate Marcellus Shale Drilling on His Own
As MDN noted yesterday, the West Virginia legislature ended its regular session without passing any new regulations governing drilling in the Marcellus Shale, even though most agree there are important issues that need to be addressed in the state as the young but rapidly developing Marcellus drilling industry continues to expand. Now there is word that acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin (appointed to fill the position of now-Senator Joe Manchin), will go ahead and regulate the industry on his own, without the legislature’s help.
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West Virginia Passes Tax Breaks for Marcellus Drilling, But No New Regulations
It looks like there will be no new regulations for Marcellus Shale drilling in West Virginia—at least not this year. The WV legislature just ended its regular session without passing a slate of proposed new regulations, with plenty of finger pointing between the Senate and the House:
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Chesapeake Energy | Energy Companies | Energy Services | Equinor/Statoil | MarkWest Energy | Marshall County | West Virginia
Chesapeake and Statoil to Drill 17K Horizontal Marcellus Gas Wells, Statoil Does Deal with MarkWest for Gas Processing
Chesapeake Energy and Statoil ASA are making a major commitment to drilling in the Marcellus Shale over the next two decades:
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West Virginia: 58 Horizontal Marcellus Shale Wells Drilled in 2010, But 433 Permits Were Issued – More Inspectors are Needed
Drilling in West Virginia is heating up, but according to state Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman, it’s not “out of control”—yet. Huffman and others do see a critical need for more inspectors, something they hope will soon be approved by the WV legislature.
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Marcellus Drilling May Help Save 200 Jobs at Bayer Plant in WV
The Bayer CropScience plant in Institute, WV is rumored to be downsizing. Currently 500 people are employed there, but the plant will soon stop making and storing the same chemical (MIC) that leaked in the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India killing thousands back in 1984. If that happens, some 200 people will lose their jobs. But there may be hope to keep those jobs because of Marcellus Shale drilling:
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PPG Chemical Plant in Marshall County, WV Gets a $50M Marcellus Shale Payday
PPG Industries, a $12 billion global supplier of paints, coatings, optical products, specialty materials, chemicals, glass and fiber glass, is about to get another $50 million from the gas beneath one of it’s chemical plants located in Marshall County, WV.
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Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Preston County | Superior Appalachian Pipeline | West Virginia
New Marcellus Shale Gas Pipeline Coming to Preston County, WV
A new Marcellus Shale gas pipeline is coming to Preston County, WV which will ultimately mean more drilling in the region.
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Forced Pooling in W.Va. Taken Out of New Legislation
West Virginia gets closer with new rules and regulations for drilling in the Marcellus Shale. And it looks like the forced pooling provision has been dropped:
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IOGA’s Mike McCown Talks about Marcellus Drilling and the Future of Energy in West Virginia
Mike McCown, president of the Independent Oil and Natural Gas Association (IOGA) in West Virginia, was interviewed by the Register-Herald (Beckley, WV). IOGA represents some 600 oil and gas companies throughout WV, including those drilling in the Marcellus Shale in that state. Among Mike’s comments:
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WV Gov. Tomblin Creates Task Force to Encourage Marcellus Gas Chemical Manufacturing
West Virginia Governor Early Ray Tomblin wants to leverage Marcellus Shale drilling in his state as much as possible, and he’s created a new task force to encourage it.
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Bradford County | Greene County (PA) | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Susquehanna County | Washington County | West Virginia | Wetzel County
Dimock, PA Among Likely Locations for EPA Study of Hydraulic Fracturing
A critical component in the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) plan to study hydraulic fracturing is where they will conduct case studies. Starting on page 42 of the draft proposal, we find out.
There were 48 proposed locations suggested to the EPA, from which they will select between five and eight locations. We know five likely locations right now, and two of those are in the Marcellus Shale region—the other three are in other shale formations around the country.
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