Courtesy Wetzel County Action Group, www.wcag-wv.org

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West Virginia’s rural roads cannot handle the industrialization that is occurring due to Marcellus Shale development.  This is a local road that was suitable for access to a few farms.  It takes hundreds and hundreds of tractor-trailers to transport water for the frac jobs to and from the well sites, in addition to all of the heavy equipment used and other supplies needed to drill these huge wells, not to mention the daily traffic of the workers traveling back and forth.