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    • Gas Pipelines in the Taylorsville Basin- What? No way! OMG!

      Posted by Bill on July 3, 2018
      Eminent Domain, Fracking, GHGs, including methane, Laws Regulations, Pipelines, US Government Agencies

      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

      Posted by Bill on July 1, 2018
      Water

      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

      Posted by Bill on January 16, 2018
      Air Pollution, Earthquakes, Eminent Domain, Health, Laws Regulations, Pipelines, Toxic Waste, Water

      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 […]


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    • Westmoreland sets no-fracking strategy

      Posted by Bill on January 10, 2018
      Financial Implications, Health, Laws Regulations, Toxic Waste, Water

      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

      Posted by Bill on December 23, 2017
      Laws Regulations, Water

      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

      Posted by Bill on December 21, 2017
      Laws Regulations

      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

      Posted by Bill on December 20, 2017
      Chemicals Pesticides Fertilizers, Laws Regulations, Toxic Waste, Water

      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.

      http://peninsulaclarion.com/opinion/2017-12-20/voices-peninsula-fracking-too-little-science-too-much-risk


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    • Westmoreland – first strict fracking regulations – then all-out ban

      Posted by Bill on December 14, 2017
      Laws Regulations

      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.

       http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/westmoreland-puts-strict-fracking-regulations-in-place-then-looks-into/article_24f2b7a1-6f74-5d8d-b9bd-12bae9acf50d.html


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    • Protect PT seeks court order to halt fracking in Penn Township

      Posted by Bill on October 5, 2017
      Activists, Laws Regulations

      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.

      http://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/12804543-74/protect-pt-seeks-court-order-to-halt-fracking-in-penn-township


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    • Fracking in the Taylorsville Basin

      Posted by Bill on October 3, 2017
      Laws Regulations

       

      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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