Marcellus Shale (Fracking)
The Great Shale Gas Rush
Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling
Frack Check
USGS Report on Fracking
How to Fight Fracking and Win
Regulatory Structure Isn’t Prepared
Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush
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Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling Presentations
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Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling and Water (Q&A)
The Sierra Club is trying to get as much support as is possible for the WV Legislature to come up with a meaningful bill for the special session that is set to deal with redistricting in August. However, the deadline is even sooner. Senator Kessler has set up a committee to come up with a bill. It is believed that they will be working on this from now until the meeting on finance on July 11th in Charleston.
Call or email the people on the attached list and papers. We really need to act now.
I met a woman from Hampshire that is near a well and she is scared about what will happen when they frack it or drill more wells. Much of the area is now leased and no one has much recourse if they object since the mineral rights are not owned.
Please please take the time to email the people listed. A phone call too if you can. Even better - if anyone can personally contact a person that is great.
A letter to the editor of the Morgan Messenger is also a great tool. You must send it to them by US Mail. You can get the info online for address etc.
Even if you do not live in WV, if you own property you are a taxpayer. It impacts not only WV but much of the country. Our river is really in danger.
Again, please act on this asap.
Please pass this information on to anyone you believe might join in this cause.
Contact Information for WV law makers
Morgan County
Representative Daryl Cowles (R) H: 304.258.6470 W.304.258.1880 C: 304.340.3177
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Senator Clark Barnes (R) H: None W: 304.636.5146 C: 304.357.7973
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Senator Walt Helmick (D) H:304.799.7172 W: None C: 304.357.7980
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Local Senator on Drilling Bill Committee
Senator Herb Snyder(D) H:304.725.4529 W: 304.725.6174 C: 304.357.7357
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Call your state legislators at the Capitol via this toll free number 877-565-3447.
Share your concerns with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) at 304-926-0499.
Members of the committee include: Delegate Tim Manchin, D-Marion, as the chairman,Delegate Barbara Fleischauer, D-Monongalia; Delegate Tom Campbell, D-Greenbrier; Delegate Woody Ireland, R-Ritchie; and Delegate Bill Anderson, R-Wood.
Senate committee members include chairman Douglas Facemire, D-Braxton; Corey Palumbo, D-Kanawha; Herb Snyder, D-Jefferson; Orphy Klepma, D-Ohio; and Karen Facemyer, R-Jackson.