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Category Archives: West Virginia
West Virginia Natural Gas Well Explosion
Seven people were injured after a cloud of methane gas ignited, triggering an explosion at a natural Natural Gas Drilling site near Moundsville, West Virginia on June 7, 2010. A 50-foot-high flare created by the explosion was expected to burn …
West Virginia, Pennsylvania Fracking Incidents A Lesson for New York
New York State’s fracking moratorium has enabled regulators to learn from what is going on in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, where fracking is routine, according to the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review. Although the practice of fracking has begun in the Marcellus Shale—an …
Fracking Fluid Disposal Investigated As Cause of West Virginia Earthquakes
Could an operation related to hydraulic fracturing in West Virginia be responsible for more than half a dozen earthquakes that have hit the state’s southern Braxton County this year? According to a report from West Virginia Public Broadcasting, one state …
West Virginia State Parks Focus of Fracking Battle
Environmental advocates in West Virginia are trying to keep hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, out of State Parks. According to the West Highlands Conservancy, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Wednesday will take up the matter later this month.
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