As fracking and related infrastructure expand, so does the industry’s impacts on local residents.
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Environmental Groups Challenge How Pipeline Impacts are Assessed
A coalition of conservation groups is asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to consider the combined impact of four proposed natural gas pipeline projects.
TAGS: Atlantic Coast Pipeline Duke Energy fracking Marcellus Shale mountain valley pipeline Natural Gas natural gas pipelines
Diane Pitcock Connects Landowners to Fracking Researchers
By Molly Moore When Diane Pitcock and her family retired to rural Doddridge County, W.Va., in 2005, she planned on canning garden vegetables, watching the stars and listening to the owls. Today, however, four Marcellus Shale gas rigs surround her…
TAGS: Activism Citizen action environmental journalism environmental protections fracking Hydraulic Fracturing Marcellus Shale West Virginia
Plundering Private Property Rights
By Paige Campbell Half a dozen generations ago, when a coal-mining boom first enticed southwest Virginians to sell the rights to minerals beneath their land, the deal they were making concerned the coal itself. At least, that’s how Virginia’s courts…
TAGS: Coal fracking gas drilling Marcellus Shale mineral rights mining companies private property rights
