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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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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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Westmoreland – first strict fracking regulations – then all-out ban
Moments after the Westmoreland Board of Supervisors passed amendments Monday night to strictly limit gas and oil drilling, board members asked the county attorney to start researching a possible moratorium on the activity.
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Protect PT seeks court order to halt fracking in Penn Township
Lawyers for a Penn Township environmental group are expected to be in court Friday to ask a judge to issue an injunction to halt a zoning hearing on a request to build two additional natural gas wells.
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Fracking in the Taylorsville Basin
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” injects pressurized liquids into the earth to break apart shale rock formations and release trapped oil or natural gas. Fracking uses millions of gallons of water mixed with “proprietary” toxic chemicals that are injected deep underground through wells to break up shale and release trapped gas. […]
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