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USGS: Small earthquake detected in Louisa
This article discusses a recent earthquake in Louisa County, near the Lake Anna Nuclear Power Plant.
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Gas Pipelines in the Taylorsville Basin- What? No way! OMG!
Pipelines in the Taylorsville Basin? Wherever there are fracking wells, there are pipelines. So, if fracking is allowed in the Taylorsville Basin, there will be pipelines. Didn’t think about that? Probably also didn’t think about how the land will be acquired for the buried pipelines. Think Eminent Domain, where your land […]
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Virginia DEQ report and presentation on Rappahannock River water quality
This website has the May 2018 report by Virginia’s DEQ on water quality in the Rappahannock River.
This link has the DEQ presentation on the water quality.
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Court rules that fracking natural gas from a neighboring property is trespassing
This article discusses a landmark ruling that could open the door to “hundreds of trespass lawsuits”. This is really big and could be used in the Taylorsville Basin.
On Monday the Pennsylvania Superior Court issued an opinion that could have major ramifications for the hydraulic fracturing industry in the […]
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Fracking Moratorium Passes VA Committee – SB951
This brief article is a hopeful sign that things might be going well for the 5 Counties in the Taylorsville County. Scroll down to the bottom of the article. The Virginia legislature is actually considering a 4-year moratorium on fracking in what is called the Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area. […]
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Westmoreland County Looks to Ban Fracking
See: http://www.fredericksburg.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-westmoreland-sets-no-fracking-strategy/article_3de34646-1e59-556a-9624-021864ceb66a.html
There was an article in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star (FLS) on the Board of Supervisors (BOS) December 2017 meeting where the BOS approved ordinances and zoning regulations to limit the amount of fracking that can be done in their County.
I applaud the BOS of Westmoreland County for taking an extremely […]
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Westmoreland sets no-fracking strategy
I applaud the Board of Supervisors (BOS) of Westmoreland County for taking an extremely sound, well-thought-out position. The two step approach should be the model that every County in the Taylorsville Basin follows. And I applaud the FLS Editorial Staff for supporting this decision, stating “We would urge the […]
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Editorial: Westmoreland sets no-fracking strategy
Five counties to the east and south of Fredericksburg are situated, all or in part, atop the Taylorsville Basin, a geological formation that holds significant deposits of oil and natural gas. One energy company, Shore Exploration Corp. of Dallas, has leased about 84,000 acres in those counties as potential …
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Westmoreland County restricting fracking
Last week, on Monday December 11, the Westmoreland Board of Supervisors met and voted on the Westmoreland Comprehensive Plan and its amendments concerning the subject of oil and gas extraction in the county, passing measures aimed at hindering attempts to drill for oil and gas within Westmoreland County. They […]
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Westmoreland County and Fracking Restrictions
When southern Kenai Peninsula residents heard BlueCrest’s plans for the Cosmopolitan project just north of Anchor Point, it brought two new words into our vocabulary: hydraulic fracturing, or, simply, fracking.
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