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Coalition opposing Dominion pipeline across West Virginia
Pipeline Advice WVSORO May 24, 2011
The Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA) is a coalition of organizations concerned about the natural gas pipeline that Dominion Resources and its partner companies have proposed to build through portions of West Virginia and Virginia. More
Issues: Pipelines

There are gathering pipelines around me leaking gas. What can I do?
Gas Leaks Advice, Pipeline Advice WVSORO May 15, 2011
It is illegal for a gas well owner to let gas leak from their wells or from their “gathering” lines that transport the gas from their wells to market. It is a violation of West Virginia Code §22-6-31. More
Issues: Pipelines, Pollution

WVSORO Surface Owners’ News – Spring 2011
Newsletter WVSORO March 31, 2011
House Committee Holds Hearing on Marcellus Shale Drilling | Legislature Fails to Address Drilling Concerns | Water Testing Before Drilling Starts: Why and How More
Issues: Leasing, Marcellus shale, Water

Info on Gathering Pipelines
Pipeline Advice WVSORO March 31, 2011
"Gathering" pipelines start at the wellhead and join with other gathering pipelines to become bigger gathering pipeline that go to treatment facilities and eventually end up connecting to "transmission" lines that take the gas to market. The drillers do not have the right to "condemn" or use "eminent domain" for gathering lines. More
Issues: Eminent domain, Pipelines

Surface Owners, Environmental Council Urge Special Session on Marcellus Drilling
Press Release WVSORO March 13, 2011
The lack of action taken by the House and the Senate to pass an effective and responsible bill to help regulate Marcellus Shale drilling, has the WV Surface Owners’ Rights Organization (WV-SORO), the WV Environmental Council and others urging Acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin to call a special session to address environmental and other concerns related Marcellus Shale development. More
Issues: Legislation, Marcellus shale

Marcellus Shale Bills: What’s in them (and What’s not)?
Blog WVSORO January 31, 2011
There will be at least two comprehensive proposals regulating Marcellus Shale for the legislature to consider this session. More
Issues: Legislation, Marcellus shale

Marcellus Shale Bills: What’s in them (and What’s not)?
Blog WVSORO January 31, 2011
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Issues: Legislation, Marcellus shale

The industrialization of rural West Virginia caused by the Marcellus Shale gas play
Resource Gallery WVSORO December 12, 2010
A few years ago, Marcellus Shale gas was unrecoverable, and West Virginia was a relative backwater in the oil and gas industry. The new techniques of high-volume hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have made a sea change in all of that. More
Issues: Marcellus shale, Rural industrialization

WV SORO local meetings
Misc Gallery WVSORO November 1, 2010
Photos from a few local surface owner meetings held in 2008 through 2010 More
Issues: Land use, Leasing, Oil and Gas

West Virginia Residents and Group Against Smog & Pollution Appeal Chesapeake Energy Marcellus Shale Permits
Press Release WVSORO October 14, 2010
On Tuesday West Virginia residents filed an appeal before the West Virginia Air Quality Board challenging two air permits recently issued to Chesapeake Energy for a large—and growing—Marcellus Shale operation in West Virginia’s northern panhandle. More
Issues: Marcellus shale, Pollution

WVSORO Surface Owners’ News – Fall 2010
Newsletter WVSORO October 7, 2010
WV-SORO Win: Ruling in Well Spacing Case Favors Surface Owners | DOH Establishes New Bonding Policy for Drillers | IRS may have ruled that “free” gas is not income More
Issues: DEP, Oil and Gas, Pollution

Update on the Blue Eagle Well Spacing Suit
Blog WVSORO October 7, 2010
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Issues: Marcellus shale, Pooling, Well Spacing

EPA Study of Hydraulic Fracturing’s Potential Impact on Drinking Water
Blog WVSORO October 1, 2010
In a major, nationwide effort, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is studying the relationship between hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and drinking water. More
Issues: Fracking, Pollution, Water

Free Gas, and IRS Form 1099 and IRS Form W-9, and Federal Income Taxation.
Free Gas Advice WVSORO August 17, 2010
WVSORO has heard that the IRS has given a gas company a ruling that it does not have to give 1099's for free gas. This may mean that the IRS has determined that it is not "income" for surface owners income tax purposes. More
Issues: Oil and Gas

Well explosion in Marshall County
Blog, News WVSORO July 23, 2010
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Issues: Oil and Gas, Pollution

Q&A” section on the subject of seismic activity from the West Virginia Surface Owner’s Guide to Oil and Gas
Blog WVSORO June 30, 2010
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Issues: Leasing, Oil and Gas

Dawson Geophysical wants permission to do seismic testing on my land! What should I do?
Seismic and Geophysical Advice WVSORO June 30, 2010
Dawson Geophysical has been contracted/authorized by at least Chesapeake Energy, and perhaps other gas producers in the area, to conduct both 2D (two dimensional) testing in a straight line, and 3D (three dimensional) testing over 80 square miles of southern Upshur and a bit of Randolph and Lewis counties. More
Issues: Oil and Gas, Seismic testing

WVSORO article on the need to change real estate transaction documents
Buying Land Advice WVSORO June 28, 2010
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Information for Oil and Gas Well Access Roads
WV Surface Owners' Guide Update WVSORO June 2, 2010
Drillers can drill wells using access roads that are wide enough for two tractor trailers to pass each other going in opposite directions, or they can drill wells using single lane roads with occasional wide spot pull-offs or landings for trucks to pass by each other. More
Issues: Roads

Proposed Changes to Oil & Gas Rules, Marcellus Guidance Document
Blog WVSORO May 23, 2010
After what can only be described as a rough start, DEP’s Oil and Gas Well Drilling Rule was passed by both chambers on the last day of the session. It took some butting of heads and a couple of conference committees, but the rule as finally adopted begins to address drilling for Marcellus Shale natural gas in some positive ways. More
Issues: Marcellus shale, Oil and Gas