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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
Sep 6
2022
Company says using on site gas powered electric generators will reduce footprint and noise compared to diesel.
Sep 6
2022
Questions at PA cracker plant
Aug 19
2022
Sentence in Inflation Act helps Diversified avoid plugging costs
Aug 4
2022
Bloomberg news video on Diversified
Jul 28
2022
Gazette/Mail on Diversified fradulent transaction law suit.
Jul 25
2022
Lawsuit claims Diversified and EQT played hot potato with abandoned wells
Jul 18
2022
Pennsylvania makes orphaned well protections worse.
Jul 15
2022
Inspector-deprived DEP has contractors hire and pay their own "compliance officers" for orhaned well plugging
May 1
2022
Researchers, industry experts say numbers don't add up for Appalachia's largest gas and oil well owner or WV's well inspectors | wvgazettemail.com
Apr 15
2022
Environmental, royalty and surface owner advocates pressure Justice to add oil and gas inspector increase to special session
Apr 15
2022
Royalty owners, environmental advocates urge Gov. Justice to put bill for more gas well inspectors on special session call - Dominion Post
Mar 24
2022
Failure of energy and environment bills keep oil and gas tank regulations intact, but leave DEP short on well inspection funding
Mar 20
2022
Environmental Defense Fund "Solutions" newsletter re orphaned wells in WV and elsewhere
Mar 11
2022
Forced unitization bill with surface owner protections passes
Feb 25
2022
WV Senate Committee approves second of two proposed bills to fund more oil and gas inspectors
Feb 19
2022
WV House and Senate committees approve bills eliminating minimum number of royalty owners needed to allow oil and gas development
Feb 16
2022
WV Senate committee approves one of two proposed bills to boost DEP oil and gas inspector funding
Feb 7
2022
Oil and gas right groups says new study shows gas wells leaking throughout West Virginia
Jan 31
2022
Biden administration to send $1.15 billion to states to plug orphaned wells, which leak planet-warming methane - The Washington Post
Jan 24
2022
West Virginia receiving money from infrastructure law for plugging wells - WV MetroNews
Jan 18
2022
Manchin Praises Interagency Implementation Of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law To Clean Up Legacy of Abandoned Wells
Jan 8
2022
Dave McMahon: Methan fee in Build Back Better needed - Letters to the Editor | wvgazettemail.com