| 8-31 |
Water on Fire in Harrison County? |
| 8-31 |
Unions: West Virginians Better Qualified For Some Marcellus Jobs |
| 8-27 |
In Braxton, there's a whole lotta shakin' going on: Is gas drilling causing earthquakes? |
| 8-27 |
Dominion sues to complete gas storage field |
| 8-26 |
Union protests hiring out of state workers for gas drilling |
| 8-25 |
Earthquakes may be tied to gas drilling activity |
| 8-23 |
Documentary on Gas Drilling Shown in Buckhannon |
| 8-22 |
"Gasland" Film Raises Concern in W.Va. |
| 8-20 |
Controversial gas drilling documentary shown at WV Wesleyan |
| 8-19 |
Is West Virginia Ready for Wave of Marcellus Drilling? |
| 8-18 |
Watershed groups support rules, regulations to protect streams from drilling activity |
| 8-16 |
Natural gas accidents posing challenges for emergency responders |
| 8-16 |
Marcellus drilling increases as do residents' concerns |
| 8-16 |
Marcellus drilling concerns continue |
| 8-16 |
W.Va. lawmakers push more drilling on public land |
| 8-12 |
DEP Online Tool Addresses Dry Weather Stream Withdrawals |
| 8-12 |
DOH to Use Gas Well Brine to Treat Roads |
| 8-12 |
Gas drillers: New road-repair rules too expensive |
| 8-7 |
David McMahon: W.Va. regulatory climate delays gas drilling? Please |
| 8-4 |
Action Alert: Stunning 11th Hour Victory- NYS Drilling Moratorium Passes Senate |
| 7-26 |
New scrutiny for drilling, EPA takes a fresh look at fracking process in Marcellus Shale |
| 7-23 |
E.P.A. Considers Risks of Gas Extraction |
| 7-23 |
EPA conducts public meeting on hydraulic fracturing study (with audio)
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| 7-24 |
Drilling Allowed To Resume At Site of Explosion |
| 7-23 |
Landowners say Del. company cheated them on oil, gas leases |
| 7-23 |
Range Resources: Marcellus Shale Hydraulic Fracturing |
| 7-22 |
DEP clears gas well operator to continue work in state |
| 7-21 |
W.Va. falls behind Pa. in Marcellus natural gas drilling, study finds |
| 7-19 |
West Virginia Water Protection Rules May Not Be Keeping Up (with audio) |
| 7-13 |
Union: Hundreds of WV Pipeline Jobs Going to Out of State Workers (with audio) |
| 6-30 |
Drilling Chemicals May Pose Hazard |
| 6-21 |
Vanity Fair: A Colossal Fracking Mess (with video) |
| 6-21 |
W.Va. regulators scramble to keep up with drilling |
| 6-20 |
TROUBLED PROMISE: Little oversight, looming problems for Pa. gas industry |
| 6-20 |
Natural gas leases, royalties vary widely |
| 6-18 |
Marcellus drillers face stringent wastewater regulations [in PA] |
| 6-18 |
Harrison board OKs lease of oil and gas rights |
| 6-17 |
Film challenges safety of U.S. shale gas drilling |
| 6-15 |
Drilling Blasts Are High Priority
Company will start to cap burned site in Marshall County today |
| 6-14 |
Critics Challenge University Research in Pa. Debate Over Natural-Gas Drilling |
| 6-13 |
Marcellus well blowout: Dark side of economic gain |
| 6-13 |
As Pennsylvania well permits boom, neighbors' fears deepen |
| 6-10 |
State probes safety of Marcellus drilling sites
Review prompted by W.Va. explosion |
| 6-10 |
Mineral Drilling Affecting Safety of Upshur County Residents (with video) |
| 6-10 |
DEP orders review of driller following W.Va. explosion |
| 6-10 |
WV DEP suspends state operations of company with gas well permit (with audio) |
| 6-10 |
Investigation continues at gas drilling explosion site (with audio) |
| 6-10 |
W.Va. DEP halts work at site of gas well blast |
| 6-9 |
Methane Explosion Raising Questions |
| 6-8 |
Fort Worth drilling firm's rig spewing flames in West Virginia |
| 6-8 |
Minimize Risk In Gas Drilling |
| 6-8 |
Methane May Burn for Days |
| 6-7 |
Marcellus Shale drilling boom in W.Va. could last for years |
| 6-7 |
Marshall Gas Well Explodes |
| 6-7 |
W.Va. gas well blast injures 7; flames now 40 feet |
| 6-4 |
Gas, fluids spew for hours from blown-out Pa. well |
| 5-21 |
Salem Council hears request for moratorium on gas drilling |
| 5-19 |
"Fracking" Prompts Health, Environmental Questions about Gas Extraction (with audio) |
| 5-19 |
Pittsburgh researchers look for better ways to treat gas drilling wastewater |
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Buried Secrets, ProPublica's Ongoing Series on Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat |
| 5-4 |
Shepherdstown organization tracking Gulf oil spill (with audio) |
| 5-4 |
Hunt for gas, oil keeps W.Va. county clerks busy |
| 5-3 |
When Out-Of-State Companies Drill For Gas, What Does WV Get? (with audio) |
| 4-30 |
Communities, Residents Seek Relief From Drilling Activities (pdf) |
| 4-23 |
State Decision Blocks Drilling for Gas in Catskills |
| 4-23 |
Standing room only (Coverage of April 24 Meeting in Rock Cave, WV) |
| 4-21 |
Another oil spill cleaned up in Doddridge County; DEP issues citation |
| 4-16 |
Press Release: Informational Meeting on Oil & Gas Drilling Set for April 22 in Upshur County |
| 4-16 |
Marshall County board OKs gas drilling in park |
| 4-12 |
ProPublica Podcast on the EPA and Gas Drilling |
| 4-12 |
Gas wells to be drilled in N. Charleston |
| 3-29 |
Natural Gas: Fuel of the Future |
| 3-25 |
Chesapeake, Schlumberger fined $22,000 each in cows' deaths |
| 3-20 |
Protests halt drilling auction near Mon Forest |
| 3-18 |
EPA Launches National Study of Hydraulic Fracturing |
| 3-18 |
EPA to study drill method behind natural gas boom |
| 3-17 |
EQT helps fund Extension's gas-drilling program |
| 3-16 |
Researchers test way to reuse Marcellus drilling water (with audio) |
| (3-15 |
Bill to mandate stricter water reporting dies on final night (with audio) |
| 3-15 |
Water quality bill expires, but advocates say fight is not over (with audio) |
| 3-14 |
West Union official angry over state’s handling of spill in Doddridge stream |
| 3-11 |
Court to hear Chief Logan drilling appeal |
| 3-11 |
Letter to the Editor: Drilling law is outdated |
| 3-10 |
DEP Releases New Online Frack Water Reporting Form |
| 3-9 |
AOP Clearwater Plant Open in Marion County |
| 3-9 |
Natural gas reporting bill clears Senate committee |
| 3-9 |
Bill to protect waterways clears one committee hurdle (with audio/video) |
| 3-9 |
Supreme Court set to consider appeal of Chief Logan State Park gas drilling |
| 3-9 |
Boom In Marcellus Gas Drilling Brings Calls For Tighter Controls (with audio) |
| 3-8 |
Action Alert: Public Hearing Monday, 3/8/2010 ~ Urge Your Delegates to Oppose SB 369 |
| 3-5 |
Action Alert: Two Bills, Two Actions |
| 3-3 |
House Bill Eyes Shale Gas Drilling |
| 3-3 |
Green disputes claims that oil & gas oversight change will open door fo Marcellus shale operations |
| 3-1 |
Rush on gas-well drilling bill unfair, owners group says |
| 2-28 |
Action Alert: Contact Your Delegates Now ~ Urge Them to Support the Marcellus Shale "Water Bill" |
| 2-28 |
Decision Could Allow Anonymous Political Contributions by Businesses |
| 2-28 |
Mon Forest parcels up for oil, gas lease bids |
| 2-26 |
Will SORO Bills Be Taken Up in Time? |
| 2-17 |
Dominion funding natural gas Extension program |
| 2-12 |
Land use planning bill gets referred to subcommittee |
| 2-12 |
Senate's well-drilling rule draws environmentalist fire |
| 2-10 |
Press Release: Landowners seek fair treatment from oil and gas drillers |
| 2-10 |
W.Va. lawmakers again try to referee gas drilling |
| 2-8 |
Minard works to weaken WVDEP’s new drilling rules |
| 2-8 |
'Hallway deal' resulted in more lax oil-gas regulations (with audio) |
| (2-5) |
FREE GAS RIGHTS COULD BE TAXED - Historic Hands-Off Deal Threatened
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| (2-4) |
DEP to Rewrite Brine Water Land Application Permits |
| 2-2 |
Natural gas royalties to improve Hare Krishna community (with audio) (2-2)
(WV-SORO founder Dave McMahon is interviewed about our efforts to pass a Surface Owners' Bill of Rights) |
| 2-2 |
Natural gas drilling poses threat to region's groundwater |
| 1-28 |
Manchin says state is 'partner |
| 1-26 |
'Green' investors target Marcellus Shale drillers |
| 1-26 |
EPA Press Release: EPA Announces "Eye on Drilling" Tipline (1-26)
Click here for Tipline Instructions |
| 1-25 |
Landman Report Card Website Launched: A Resource to Support Citizens Negotiating with Big Energy
Click here to view or write a report card |
| 1-24 |
Underground Injection of Gas Industry Brine Taking Off |
| 1-19 |
Oil and gas operators skirt federal law, report says (1-19)
(Click here to read the report) |
| 1-16 |
Keyser to Seek DEP Permission to Treat Gas Industry Wastewater |
| 1-13 |
Health Care and Marcellus Wells |
| 1-13 |
WVDEP drilling rules advance, setting up legislative fight |
| 1-13 |
Marcellus Shale Guidance Available from W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection |
| 1-13 |
DEP puts out Marcellus guidance document and permit addendum |
| 12-31 |
Natural Gas Drilling: What We Don’t Know
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| 12-30 |
State Oil and Gas Regulators Are Spread Too Thin to Do Their Jobs |
| 12-21 |
Gas could be the answer in global warming fight |
| 12-21 |
Exxon venture may be prelude |
| 12-19 |
Review W.Va. Drilling Rules |
| 12-16 |
State changing protocol for hazardous spills |
| 12-10 |
WV Lawmakers To Look At Water Rules For Gas Drilling Boom (with audio) |
| 12-8 |
Doddridge officials wait for answers |
| 12-7 |
NY Times: Dark Side of a Natural Gas Boom |
| 12-5 |
Landowners want more horizontal gas wells |
| 12-3 |
An energy answer in the shale below? New technology opens vast stores of natural gas, and the land rush is on |
| 12-3 |
Drilling right into a heated environmental debate |
| 11-30 |
Concerns come with increase in natural gas |
| 11-30 |
Vast supply alters gas industry |
| 11-28 |
At Odds Over Land, Money and Gas |
| 11-26 |
Logan judge seeks high court's advice in cemetery case (11-26)
(Pipeline company damaged private cemetery that served a historically black coal camp community) |
| 11-9 |
Doddridge County Spill Raises Questions About Reporting |
| 11-9 |
Press Release: WV Surface Owners’ Rights Organization to Host Meeting on Oil and Gas Leasing, Drilling, and Surface Owners' Rights |
| 11-1 |
Colorado county copes with methane mystery |
10-30 |
"Perfect Storm for Fish Kill" from NPR's Living on Earth (Transcript) (Audio/MP3) |
| 10-29 |
Congress Gives Final Approval to Hinchey Provision Urging EPA to Conduct New Study on Risks Hydraulic Fracturing Poses to Drinking Water Supplies |
| 10-23 |
160 organizations urge Congress to pass the FRAC Act |
| 10-23 |
Answers few in fraccing fluid spill |
| 8-18 |
Wetzel County residents face drilling concerns |
| 8-16 |
What's in the Gas Drilling Pit? |
| 8-16 |
Can gas companies and landowners profit? |
| 8-16 |
Morgantown Dominion Post article on Marcellus Shale |
| 8-14 |
Clarksburg Suspends Treatment of Marcellus Brine, Seeks Testing |
| 8-14 |
EPA Confirms Drinking Water Contamination by Toxics Used in Hydraulic Fracturing |
| 8-13 |
WV Royalty Owners Could Have Money Coming And Not Know It (with audio) |
| 8-13 |
Filing deadline for claims in Dominion royalty case extended |
| 8-7 |
Levels of Total Dissolved Solids in the Mon River are Up |
| 7-15 |
DEP rules for drilling called baby steps |
| 7-15 |
Press Release: Groups applaud additions to oil & gas rules, but urge additional changes |
| 6-3 |
Press Release: Surface Owners Allowed to Intervene in Well Spacing Law Suit. |
| 5-27 |
Face Off Over Fracking (NPR) |
| 4-24 |
Clarksburg Plant Treats Drilling Wastewater |
| 4-8 |
Senator wants to pursue landowners' rights in oil, gas drillings |
| 4-4 |
Surface owners rights bill another casualty |
| 2-26 |
WV SORO Founder Dave McMahon on Talkline (mp3)
(Audio graciously provided by Talkline host Hoppy Kercheval) |
| 2-25 |
Senator, delegate give identical speeches in support of oil and gas industry |
| 2-25 |
Senators seek more rights for surface owners |
| 2-8 |
Lawmakers take first steps to help protect surface owners |
| 2-7 |
Landowners look to lawmakers to protect mineral rights |
| 2-4 |
Morgantown Council OKs water-quality resolution |
| Winter: |
Trout Magazine - Fractured Landscape: The Appalachians' Energy Development Rush |
| 1-22 |
W.Va., Pa. Cooperate to Maintain Mon River Quality |
| 1-17 |
Landowners want more rights when it comes to gas drilling |
| 1-9 |
Surface owner's rights group wants bill passed this year |
