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Apr 18 2025
Texas H@s deaths. H2S gas does come up with the methane in some wells in WV. The volumes in WV are probably not deadly unless in an enclosure. But if you smell rotten eggs, get away.
Jan 29 2025
EPA grants W.Va. primacy in carbon sequestration well oversight despite terrible record re abandoned wells and mine lands.
Jan 27 2025
HG gas well fire near Jane Lew extinguished
Jan 14 2025
Horizontal shale wells do not last as long as conventional wells and may become abandoned/orphaned quicker if nothing is done.
Nov 21 2024
Head of frac'ing company/climate denier Trump's pick for Energy Department
Nov 20 2024
Frac wastewater injection well leaked fro 109 days without report.in PA.
Oct 24 2024
20th Anniversary of the first Marcellus Shale well?
Oct 18 2024
Hope Gas asks PSC to convert customers getting gas from farm taps on pipeline (not on gas wells) to propane service.
Sep 23 2024
Promised horizontal shale drilling jobs did not really happen.
Aug 26 2024
Well fire at pad by JayBee again.
Aug 5 2024
Environmental Defense Fund aerial survey shows lots of methane leaks in old gas and oil fields.
Jul 29 2024
Virginia fines Mountain Valley Pipeline for erosion etc.
Jul 18 2024
EPA fines well pad in Clay County for releasing volatile organic chemicals'.
Jul 10 2024
Athens County Ohio waste injection wells to be plugged after problems.
Jun 14 2024
Frac job in Greene County PA, next to WVa affects water wells through abandoned well etc.
Jun 4 2024
Low level but potentially dangerous radiation found in mussels downstream from recently abandoned Marcellus waste treatment facility in Pennsylvania.
May 28 2024
In Ohio an injection well squirts brine out of inactive unplugged wells nearby
May 22 2024
Operator of Martins Ferry brine disposal facility required to report to jail if waste not dealt with.
May 22 2024
Athens County Ohio injection wells shut down after communicating with production gas wells.
May 3 2024
One house of Congress passes legislation to fund search, research etc. for orphaned wells.
May 2 2024
Storage well leak in Pa. shows potential problems with reusing old production wells that are almost always used
May 2 2024
Martins Ferry facility owner a real problem company.
Apr 26 2024
Another frac' waste disposal problem. Disposal well adding pressure etc. to nearby oil and gas wells risking pollution of water wells.
Apr 5 2024
Closed, overloaded frack waste facility in Martins Ferry Ohio narrowly missed by flood waters.
Mar 13 2024
Summary of general environmental legislation.
Feb 29 2024
WVSORO helps kill a bad forest carbon credit bill chasing money out of State -- one moving still bad.
Feb 24 2024
OpEd Legislature has never helped surface/mineral owners -- now want to hurt them.
Feb 2 2024
WVSORO blasts Legislature Committee bill hindering surface owner plugging suits
Jan 24 2024
Another article on shortage of inspectors
Jan 2 2024
MetroNews article: Legislature needs to look at funding more inspectors.
Dec 29 2023
Congress seeks answers from Diversified on questionable plugging practices.
Dec 19 2023
Ohio regulator suspects injection well pollution, but injection company refuses to drill to deeper formation.
Oct 21 2023
Feds starting to regulate some gathering lines.
Oct 5 2023
Federal money plugging orphaned wells in Gauley River and Ohio River Islands federal lands
Sep 19 2023
Failed brine treatment site highly radioactive.
Sep 13 2023
OHIO flowback injection well shut down due to affecting production wells a mile away.
Sep 8 2023
Cause of preventable huge leak from Pa. storage field.
Aug 31 2023
Another promised development, Belmont County, OH, ethane cracker lost major backer and probably not happenin'
Aug 23 2023
Pa. Constitution makes the Commonwealth the trustee of air water and the values of environment, so groups sue over inadequate well plugging bonding by Legislature.
Aug 22 2023
EQT frac' job "communicates" to groundwater via orphaned well - a year later - NBC news
Aug 2 2023
Orphaned Well Prevention Act letter to editor
Mar 11 2023
Senate Finance caps severance tax funding for more inspectors. Need 127, take 145, result 22.
Feb 24 2023
Bill only adding 12 inspectors passes House of Delegates -- We say need 127, but take 45.
Feb 20 2023
House votes down Democratic amendments to gas well inspector bills
Feb 1 2023
Bill for Inspector funding moves but WVSORO says we need more!
Jan 27 2023
WVSORO reported asking for 45 inspectors!
Jan 6 2023
Perry Bryant pointing out that gas industry boasts about lower CO2 emissions fails to mention methane emissions by the industry
Jan 6 2023
WVSORO Op Ed on how to spend Inflation Reduction Act Money to stop methane no subsidize drillers
Dec 27 2022
Why the Appalachian Natural Gas Boom Failed to Deliver Jobs & Prosperity and What It Teaches Us
Sep 12 2022
Orphaned well plugging bidders first $25,000,000

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