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Put January 20th on your calendar!
This January 20th, two years after the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, there will be a one day occupation of Federal courthouses across the country. This radio blurb goes into some...
View ArticleImpacts of Gas Drilling on Human and Animal Health
This peer-reviewed paper comes to the conclusion that a ban is essential in the absence of complete studies:Animals, especially livestock, are sensitive to the contaminants released into the...
View ArticleSurface Owner Symposium - Bruceton Mills - March 4
Have questions about surface owners' rights? Come to a symposium in March, hosted SORO, Friends of Decker's Creek, Friends of the Cheat, and Preston CARES:West Virginia Surface Owners’ Rights...
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Public Meeting - Feb. 20th! City of Morgantown plots zoning for drilling
This is the next strategy Morgantown is looking at in regards to the Shale Gas industry. This is a public meeting. Everyone is invited. Below was sent by Heather Digman:The City of Morgantown will...
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A Conference on Community Action Across Lines of Difference
Whether we think of issues of governance, religion, race, the environment, economic development, education, or healthcare, the inability to communicate, cooperate or compromise erodes social capital...
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West Virginia Host Farms Program Launches
West Virginia Host Farms Program is a volunteer-based initiative. The goal of the program is to provide opportunities for the environmental community to study the impact of Marcellus shale natural gas...
View ArticleTraining this Sunday for Citizen Watchdogs!
Friends of Deckers Creek (FODC) and Friends of the Cheat (FOC) are hosting a training day in Morgantown for citizens interested in becoming volunteer stream monitors. The training is scheduled from 1-4...
View ArticleSave this Slice of Heaven
By Nancy Bevins Buckhannon, WVBy now, I am sure most people in West Virginia have heard the words "fracking" and Marcellus Shale. To some, the words bring on visions of jobs, prosperity, and new...
View ArticleCitizen Gas Well Workshop
This is a workshop for citizen volunteers to become gas well watchers. Goodness knows, there are enough of them to watch - thousands, as old as early 20th century or as new as now. This project will...
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Stop the Noise!
Stop the noise! Sounds simple, doesn't it? But it is not. At the Natural Resources committee meeting of LWV of Morgantown-Monongalia on November 19th, 2012, the brutal reality of what happens...
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