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Fwd: Ad Campaign for Marcellus Gas
by James Kotcon 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

Please excuse cross postings, I am not sure who is on the Energy Committee list, and I will be using gmail for this action. I have been working with Darla Gage of Growth Media Services on the ad campaign for Marcellus. They are the folks that did the PATH campaign, and Frank is correct, they are a pleasure to work with, and have done a lot on a very short timeframe. (The Marcellus-WV webpage has been a major resource). Below is a discussion of some advertising options. To summarize, newspaper advertising is a blackhole, don't waste your money. TV is good for visuals, but it is hard to motivate action from people once they sit down. A combination of billboards, radio, and internet advertising makes a cost-effective package that can be on-line is a short timeframe. In particular, an internet ad on a newspaper site would allow viewers to click on our link, which could take them to our web page that might direct them to more action. I propose a conference call Monday evening at 7 PM to brainstorm options and get consensus on what to do next. Darla is talking about having a film crew out as early as Tuesday so that material can be up by Sept. 5. Whaddya Tink? Jim Kotcon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <darla(a)growthmediaservices.com> Date: Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:52 PM Subject: Ad Campaign for Marcellus Gas To: jkotcon(a)gmail.com Hi there, Ok, I've checked out the website to familiarize myself more with the issues, and I have a few questions/thoughts for you. 1. You mention that you want the campaign to run Sept 5-12. Are you wanting it to run just that week, or are you looking for a more long term campaign? 2. Per our conversation, I understand that this is a public awareness campaign, similar to what we did for StopPATHWV. No politicizing, just making the public aware of the health, ecological and cost issues. The success of the StopPATH campaign relied on the fact that we conveyed the issues without appearing alarmist or radical, just calmly spreading the facts and making the communities aware of the issues. While the power company tried to stop the campaign, they couldn't because the basis of the information was 100% factual. They could not complain that we were crying "Fire" in a crowded theatre. We need to do the same thing here. We need to bring the reality of the situation home, explain the real world impact on their lives...this isn't something taking place halfway around the world, but something that could have an impact on the streams they fish, the water they drink, etc. Lots of different ways this can be done. One thing we would definitely want to show is the impact to the land. If there are any experts we could speak with regarding it, that would be a good option as well. I'll work this weekend on script ideas and avenues to pursue to have the most impact. 3. Given the quick turnaround time, your best bet to reach the most people is probably going to be online. Running a campaign on the Charleston Gazette site is probably a very good idea. (StopPATH got more responses from their video on the local paper's site than from the substantially more expensive local television networks.) The turnaround time for online advertising is also much more in line with the timeline we are looking at. 4. Google is a great fit for this. Placing the ads so that when someone does a search for Marcellus Gas, for fracking, and other critical keywords, they find your ad is a powerful tool. (Irritated Allegheny Power to no end that every time someone searched for Electric Company or Allegheny Power,they got an ad running against them!) Also, these are cost effective. Instead of paying for impression, you pay per response. With traditional media outlets (print, radio, television) you pay every time the ad runs. Through Google, you only pay when people click through to your website for more information. Definitely helps stretch the budget, and can reach ad locations that you couldn't reach on your own. (Google's network partners with major media outlets and thousands of websites to target the ads to the exact market...for example, a client who ran ads for a home show found their ads on HGTV's website. Perfect fit for their market.) 5. Direct mail is ridiculously expensive. Not really an option on this kind of thing. Billboards might be a good option. Affordable and broad reaching. And when done in a way to get their attention and make them think about it, can work well. 6. Radio may also be a good fit. If you do internet ads on the Gazette website, Google video ads and display ads, billboards and a radio campaign, you will have a great coverage area demographically. I need to double check some rates, but we should be able to do anywhere from a 30 day to 90 day campaign on all of these outlets for the budget you allocated. Let me know your thoughts. I know this is a lot of info and may seem like gibberish, so feel free to ask questions. If all of this looks good, I'll put together the official proposal and send it over...and with your go-ahead we'll start on some scripting this weekend. That way we'll be able to present you with an ad campaign on Monday. If it looks good, we'll need to get started first thing next week, in order to have the ads filmed, graphics designed, audio recorded, and everything edited approved and sent to the media outlets by the 5th. Best regards, Darla PS: One more question...need the verbage for the ad disclosure (This ad was paid for by a grant from....etc). To make sure we have all the legal avenues covered. 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Re: [EC] U.S. House Passes ALEC-Inspired TRAIN Act
by Paul Wilson 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

U.S. House Passes ALEC-Inspired TRAIN Act by Rebekah Wilce On September 23, the House of Representatives passed the American Legislative Exchange Council-inspired "Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation (TRAIN) Act" and forwarded it to the Senate. Read this article on PR Watch at http://www.prwatch.org/node/11039 Please note the attached report came out and February and may have already been passed around. but the ALEC inspired legislation ignores that argument. enjoy, paul -- Paul Wilson Sierra Club 504 Jefferson Ave Charles Town, WV 25414-1130 Phone: 304-725-4360 Cell: 304-279-1361 "There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous" ~ Aristotle

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Bad news - Manchin is happy
by Jonathan Rosenbaum 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Did you see this? http://manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=302a2dba-6628-… and this isn't good either. http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2011/house-votes-to-increase-mercury-pol… -Jonathan

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Fwd: coal ash meeting in Granville
by James Kotcon 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Please review the attached. We want a big turnout. \ Sally, could you forward this to the Mon Group list? Jim Kotcon >>> "Petra&John Wood" <pbjmwood(a)gmail.com> 10/4/2011 10:33 PM >>> WVDEP has scheduled a public meeting to hear comments and answer questions about 2 Coresco coal ash dump permits near Maidsville across the river from Morgantown. It will be Monday, October 17 at 6:00 pm at the Granville Volunteer Fire Department's event hall. The fire dept is on Rt 100 and the event hall is located across the street and behind some new construction. One permit is a renewal of an existing site of ~140 acres where there is already some evidence that water contamination is occurring. The second is a new permit for ~338 acres. For information about these 2 sites, the extensive use of ash, and why dumping coal ash is a concern, see the 3 attachments: -- flyash-northernWV.pdf -- CoalAshMythFactSheetMay10-2010.pdf -- 2011-09-26_MarkeyLtrToOSM.pdf We hope to get a large turn-out so that we can impress upon WVDEP that many people oppose dumping toxic fly ash into our environment. We expect the mining and power company interests will try to pack the room with their employees.

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Fwd: [Mountaintop Removal] Upcoming events to help stop mountaintop removal mining
by Jim Sconyers 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dave Cooper <davecooper928(a)yahoo.com> Date: Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:49 PM Subject: [Mountaintop Removal] Upcoming events to help stop mountaintop removal mining To: Mountaintop Removal Road Show list < mountaintopremovalroadshow(a)lists.riseup.net> Friends of the Appalachian Mountains, Here are some big upcoming events and conferences to help stop mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia and combat the impacts of climate change - our movement continues to grow and spread and we are now working with allies all across the country. If you want to be a part of the most vibrant, fastest-growing environmental campaign in the country, please join us - and attend one (or more) of these events. The people in this campaign are very friendly and we hope to see you there! All of the information below is also compiled on the Mountain Justice calendar - so if you have trouble with any of these links, try going to: http://www.mountainjustice.org/calendar/index.php and click on the event for more info. ------------------------------ This weekend - Oct 7-9 The Heartwood Reunion, Paoli IN. Workshops, speakers and entertainment in a lovely wooded setting in southern Indiana, about one hour from Louisville. Great food - wonderful place - highly recommended. Camping and low-cost cabins are available. To register or for more info, click here <http://www.heartwood.org/reunion/registration> ------------------------------ Also this weekend - Oct 7-9 The Changing of the Leaves Festival atop Larry Gibson's famous Kayford Mountain near Charleston West Virginia. This is a free event - See mountaintop removal at Ground Zero and hear good old mountain music. Potluck dinner and camping. For more information click here <http://mountainkeeper.blogspot.com/p/outreach.html> - for driving directions, go to google and search for "directions to Kayford Mountain." This is the best place to see mountaintop removal and you can meet the famous "Mountain Keeper" Larry Gibson. ------------------------------ There is also a work party this weekend (Oct 7-9) in Rock Creek, WV to prepare for the upcoming Mountain Justice Fall Summit. Volunteers and tools are needed - If you can help, please email David: mthegorilla(a)gmail.com ------------------------------ Oct 14-16 Mountain Justice monthly meeting in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. We will explore a historic local mining community and go up on the highest mountain in Kentucky. For more info, please email me back davecooper928(a)yahoo.com ------------------------------ Oct 15 - Kentucky Heartwood Benefit Dance, Millville KY (near Versailles and Frankfort) - old time contra and square dancing with live music. More info <http://www.kyheartwood.org/> ------------------------------ Oct 14-15 Kentucky Waterways Alliance Annual Retreat at beautiful Cumberland Falls State Park. More info<http://www.kwalliance.org/AnnualRetreat> ------------------------------ Oct 17-18 - Funeral for the Mountains, Richmond VA. Sponsored by Virginia Sierra Club. Info: glen.besa(a)sierraclub.org ------------------------------ Oct 20-21 - "Rooted in the Mountains" Symposium at Western Carolina University, Cullowee NC will examine the impacts of mountain destruction on communities. More info <http://www.wcu.edu/27734.asp> ------------------------------ Oct 21 - "Women of Appalachia" Conference - Ohio University-Zanesville, OH more info <http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/womenofappalachia> ------------------------------ Oct 20-23 - The Appalachian Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (APIEL) Knoxville TN at the UT Law School. This is gonna be big, with well-known speakers and an impressive lineup of noted environmental experts and field trips to learn about the life cycle of coal in Tennessee. Highly recommended. Click here <http://www.apiel.org> for more info and to register. Don't miss this! ------------------------------ Oct 28-30 - The Mountain Justice Fall Summit: Mountain Justice, Coal River Mountain Watch, and RAMPS Campaign are teaming up to present the 2011 Mountain Justice Fall Summit in Rock Creek Hollow, near Whitesville in southern WV. Learn organizing and direct action skills in the heart of the southern West Virginia mountains. See mountaintop removal and meet local West Virginia residents and activists fighting to save their mountains. For more information and to register click here<http://www.mountainjustice.org/> [image: Fall Summit 2011 flier]<http://rampscampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/FALL-SUMMIT-FLYER-001.j…> ------------------------------ Nov 4-6 - The Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference (SSREC) at UNC-Asheville in North Carolina. Student-run and youth-led. This is always a great conference and a lot of fun. Click here<http://www.climateaction.net/ssrec>for more info. ------------------------------ Nov 11-13 Mountain Justice Annual Meeting. Plans are still in the works, but it will be in Eggleston VA near Blacksburg. Check the Mountain Justice website in a few weeks - we will have more details posted. ------------------------------ Nov 11-13 Kentucky Sierra Club Annual Meeting, Kentucky Dam Village State Park. Great speakers and entertainment again this year. More info<http://kentucky.sierraclub.org/TheCumberland.pdf> ------------------------------ Nov 19-26 - The Caravan in Support of Indigenous Communities On The Front Lines Of Resistance at Big Mountain, Black Mesa, Arizona. We are supporting our friends and allies in the indigenous communities who are opposing the deadly impacts of coal mining. For more information, click here.<http://blackmesais.org/take_action/caravan-of-support-to-big-mountain/> This is a large gathering and an annual event. ------------------------------ Thanks and hope to see you in the mountains! Dave Cooper The Mountaintop Removal Road Show www.mountainroadshow.com This is an informational monthly email about mountaintop removal. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to: mountaintopremovalroadshow-unsubscribe(a)lists.riseup.net Thanks! -- Jim Sconyers jimscon(a)gmail.com 304.698.9628 Remember, Mother Nature bats last.

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Fwd: Scientists: Drilling threat to water
by Paul Wilson 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Please fwd or post to the Fracking Activists. thx, paul ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fran Hunt <Fran.Hunt(a)sierraclub.org> Date: Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM Subject: Scientists: Drilling threat to water To: CONS-AWL-RESILIENT-HABITATS(a)lists.sierraclub.org Scientists: Drilling threat to water Municipal systems can't filter chemicals used in hydrofracking process By BRIAN NEARING Staff writer Published 12:00 a.m., Friday, September 16, 2011 ALBANY -- Dozens of scientists, including four from the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, warned Gov. Andrew Cuomo that it will be practically impossible for municipal drinking water systems to protect against chemicals used in natural gas hydraulic fracturing, also called hydrofracking. Their letter to the governor, released Thursday, was signed by 59 experts from 18 states and seven foreign countries, included scientists from Cornell University, the State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the State University at Stony Brook. "We urge the state to reconsider its position that existing water filtration systems provide adequate protection against the risk of hydraulic fracturing, should materials from flow-back fluids migrate to lakes, reservoirs, or groundwater used for municipal water supplies," the letter states. Hydrofracking relies on a high-pressure blend of chemicals, sand and water, injected deep underground to break up gas-bearing shale rock formations. Trucks bring in million of gallons of water as well as heavy equipment to each well. Used drilling water, which can contain benzene and other volatile aromatic hydrocarbons, surfactants and organic biocides, barium and other toxic metals, and radioactive compounds, is later trucked to a disposal site. The state Department of Environmental Conservation, which is considering rules to permit hydrofracking, has vowed that treated wastewater from drilling could be discharged into rivers only after hazardous substances have been removed, spokeswoman Emily Desantis said. The governor's office did not respond to a request for comment. "The state plan will not allow anything to happen in this state that will damage the drinking water supply," said John Holko, secretary and board member of the Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York, an industry lobbying group. One of the letter's signers, Cornell ecology professor Robert Howarth, said the letter was prompted by the state's decision to ban hydrofracking in watersheds that supply drinking water for New York City and Syracuse. Neither system is filtered. "Municipal filtration systems were not designed with such hazards in mind, and the ability of the filtration systems to remove such hazardous substances has received little, if any, study. ... The best available science suggests that some of these substances would pass through the typical municipal filtration system," the letter warned. "If the risk from shale gas is too high for the watersheds of New York City, then it is too high for any of the watersheds in the state," Howarth said. It would be "extremely expensive" to add additional filters that capture hydrofracking chemicals, and Howarth could not point to a single municipal drinking water system in other states where hydrofracking is used that has done so. Reach Nearing at 454-5094 or bnearing(a)timesunion.com. Letter to governor A copy of the letter can be found at the Green Blog: http://blog.timesunion.com/green/ Frances A. Hunt Director, Resilient Habitats Campaign Sierra Club 50 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 fran.hunt(a)sierraclub.org 202-675-2386- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the CONS-AWL-RESILIENT-HABITATS list, send any message to: CONS-AWL-RESILIENT-HABITATS-signoff-request(a)LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp -- Paul Wilson Sierra Club 504 Jefferson Ave Charles Town, WV 25414-1130 Phone: 304-725-4360 Cell: 304-279-1361 "There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous" ~ Aristotle

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Fwd: An Invitation to Join the Tar Sands Action in DC
by Jim Sconyers 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill McKibben <info(a)tarsandsaction.org> Date: Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:10 PM Subject: An Invitation to Join the Tar Sands Action in DC To: jimscon(a)gmail.com [image: Tar Sands Action]<http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BLJjRzhjTtBBtbmtr6MmCBwgZ…> Dear friends— Once again, we’re sending you another long letter to ask for your help. It’s been several weeks since the last people got out of jail in Washington DC, at the end of two weeks of civil disobedience that led to 1253 brave people ending up in handcuffs to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. It was the largest such action in decades, and because of their leadership lots has begun to happen. *# *The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu along with seven other Nobel Peace Prize winners wrote a letter to the president asking that he block the pipeline. They acknowledged the actions of those of us in DC, saying: “These brave individuals have spoken movingly about experiencing the power of nonviolence in that time. They represent millions of people whose lives and livelihoods will be affected by construction and operation of the pipeline.” *#* At President Obama’s first public speech since the sit-ins ended, a hardy bunch of University of Richmond students unfurled a huge banner demanding that the president veto the pipeline – followed by similar actions in Columbus, Ohio, Raleigh North Carolina, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Wilmington, Delaware and many many others. *# *Meeting on the Rosebud Sioux reservation last week, Native tribal leaders from both sides of the border and private land owners from South Dakota and Nebraska signed a ‘Mother Earth Accord’ opposing Keystone XL and the tar sands. These are the people who started this fight; and they’re being joined by everyone right down to Nebraska Cornhusker football fans who booed lustily when a Keystone ad showed up on the Jumbotron at a recent game. The next day the university ended their sponsorship deal with Trans-Canada Pipeline *#* Even as we issue this letter, Canadian activists by the hundreds are risking arrest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and brave protesters are trying to block shipments of heavy equipment to Alberta from Idaho and Montana–these are remarkable signs of continent-wide protest. *#* And on the not-so-good-side: huge wildfires driven by the worst drought in Texas history have destroyed towns and killed good people; the biggest rainfalls ever recorded have done similar damage in New Jersey, New York, and Vermont. So—there’s real momentum for action, and real need. We have less than 90 days to convince the President not to approve the pipeline. So here’s the thing: we need your help again. We need you to keep using your creativity and bodies as a part of this struggle—to fight this fight even though there’s no guarantee of victory. Here’s the plan, in three stages 1) Most important of all: *On Sunday November 6 we will return to Washington. Exactly one year before the election, we want to encircle the whole White House in an act of solemn protest*. We need to remind President Obama of the power of the movement that he rode to the White House in 2008. This issue is much bigger than any individual person, President or not, and that we will carry on, with or without him. We’re not certain this is the right plan. We don’t know if there are the thousands of people that it will take to encircle the White House—we’ve never tried something this ambitious before. And we worry that it’s too earnest and idealistic—that maybe we should be going back to jail. But unlike last time, this time we’re working from a position of strength, and we can firmly but peacefully remind the president that we were the real power behind his campaign. We’re not expecting any arrests at this action, but we are expecting to send an unmistakable, unavoidable message. *To join the action on the 6th, click here to sign up: ** http://www.tarsandsaction.org/sign-up*<http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Uctj6LyJlICjqVT0jBc6NhwgZCX…> 2) But we have to start building momentum now with action in our communities. Between now and October 7, the State Department is holding a series of hearings on its flimsy report on Keystone XL. Our colleagues in the environmental movement are doing a good job of organizing for those meetings, including the final one in DC—and we’ll be supporting a rally at the final hearing. *But starting on October 8, we’ll begin a rolling series of actions at key Obama campaign offices around the country.* We want these to be a bit bigger and more serious than what’s come before, so we’ll be doing training and providing materials to folks in those communities. We need to make sure that the message gets through to headquarters that people remember the promises from the 2008 campaign and want them kept. 3) *We need to keep showing up at the president’s public appearances* – just like what’s already been happening on campus after campus, town after town. (We especially like the chant that goes: “Yes We Can…Stop the Pipeline.”). Our organizing team is tracking the president’s every appearance to look for opportunities to act. If the President is coming to your neighborhood, we need you to get his attention. (We’ll help you do that). We’ve already shown we have the courage and the fortitude for civil disobedience.Now we need to mix it up and show a different side of the campaign. Many of us were sincerely moved by Barack Obama’s campaign for president. We’re not yet ready to concede that his promises were simply the empty talk of politicians. We’re not going to be cynics until we absolutely have no choice. It will be a beautiful and brave sight, the White House enclosed by the kind of people that put President Obama there. Since he’s said he’ll make up his mind by the end of the year, now’s the time. We know it’s hard to get to Washington, but if you can: this is the moment. Thank you. A lot. Tim DeChristopher, inmate, Federal Correctional Institution, Herlong California Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network Courtney Hight and Maura Cowley, Energy Action Coalition Jane Kleeb, Bold Nebraska Bill McKibben, tarsandsaction.org Gus Speth, former chair, president’s Council on Environmental Quality Becky Tarbotton, Rainforest Action Network Lennox Yearwood, Hip Hop Caucus Click here to unsubscribe<http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gC40HvjoKTfWgARMnNJVLBwgZCX…> [image: empowered by Salsa] <http://www.salsalabs.com/?email> ** -- Jim Sconyers jimscon(a)gmail.com 304.698.9628 Remember, Mother Nature bats last.

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3rd Circuit approves Allegheny Forest drilling
by Jonathan Rosenbaum 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

The U.S. Forest Service overstepped its authority when it imposed a ban on oil and gas drilling in the Allegheny National Forest, according to a federal appeals court ruling issued last week. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11269/1177018-499-0.stm?cmpid=newspanel4 -Jonathan

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Fwd: Re: Fw: DEP Public Notice - Informal conference scheduled for Article 3 Permit No. O200709 and
by James Kotcon 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

FYI. We need to do some planning on this one. JBK >>> "Petra&John Wood" <pbjmwood(a)gmail.com> 9/23/2011 2:59 PM >>> The new "mining permit (actually for coal ash disposal) is for 337.62 acres for a Coal Refuse Disposal Area under Permit O200709 and is the one we mentioned often in the DC fly in. They are planning to use it as a flyash dump for 35 yrs and permitting it under smcra even though they explicitly stated in their application that no mining will occur (go figure!). We're going to need to get the word out for a lot of people to attend and give comments at the meeting. I'm sure the "other side" will be out in full force. - petra > ----- Original Message ----- From: <dep.online(a)wv.gov> > To: <curt1968(a)comcast.net> > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 12:03 PM > Subject: DEP Public Notice - Informal conference scheduled for Article 3 > Permit No. O200709 and Article 3 Permit No. O101593. > >> >> The following was sent to you because you are a >> Member of the DEP Public Notice mailing list. >> ==============================**============================= >> Friday, September 23, 2011 @ 12:03 PM >> ==============================**============================= >> >> The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Division of >> Mining >> and Reclamation, 105 S. Railroad Street, Suite 301, Philippi, WV 26416, >> will >> hold an informal conference at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, October 17, 2011, in >> the >> Granville Volunteer Fire Department Social Hall, located on Route 100, in >> Granville, WV. The purpose of the hearing is to allow comments from those >> people having an interest which is or may be adversely affected by the >> Surface >> Mine Application by Coresco, LLC to permit 337.62 acres for a Coal Refuse >> Disposal Area under Permit O200709, located 2.0 miles northwest of >> Maidsville, >> WV in Cass District of Monongalia County and for the Renewal of Article 3 >> Permit Number O101593 to conduct surface mining, coal preparation, coal >> ash and >> coal refuse disposal, located 1.2 miles Northeast of Maidsville, WV in >> Cass >> District of Monongalia County. This meeting is being held in accordance >> with >> Chapter 22, Article 3, Section 20 of the Code of West Virginia. For >> further >> information, contact Permit Supervisor, WVDEP, at (304) 457-3219. >> Reference >> Article 3 Permit No. O200709 and Article 3 Permit No. O101593. >> >> ==============================**============================= >> To view past notices of open public comment periods or to unsubscribe >> from this Mailing List, login at: >> http://apps.dep.wv.gov//**MLists2/ <http://apps.dep.wv.gov//MLists2/> >> >> >> >> >

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FW: Seminar Oct 4th - The Environmental Impacts of Marcellus Shale Gas Extraction
by Grubb, Karen 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Seminar at Fairmont State Biology Program. From: Flood, Mark Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 8:48 AM To: Huggins, Pamela; Roof, Steven; Gilberti, Anthony; Yeager, Phillip; Morris, Tony; Grubb, Karen; Trisel, Donald; Magro, Albert Cc: Hemler, Debra; McKeen, Angela; Harvey, Erica; Scanlon, Matthew; Baur, Andreas; Weekley, James; Baxter, Harry Subject: Seminar Oct 4th - The Environmental Impacts of Marcellus Shale Gas Extraction Everyone, Below is the information on the seminar (and the speaker) coming up on Tuesday October 4th at 12:30pm in 305ET. Please pass this along to any interested students. Thanks, Mark The Environmental Impacts of Marcellus Shale Gas Extraction The Marcellus Shale represents one of the largest reservoirs of unconventional natural gas in the world. It holds the potential to provide a source of energy and jobs. It's extraction, however, requires significant land area, millions of gallons of water, toxic chemicals, pipelines, compressor stations and processing plants. The full development of an unconventional gas play can result in habitat fragmentation, ecological damage, and the degradation of water and air quality. The produced water especially, presents a major challenge as it may contain upwards of 350,000 mg/l of total dissolved solids and naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM). The use of open impoundments for recycling has provided a unique incubator for the enrichment of salt tolerant microbial species. The talk will provide an overview of the processes involved in shale gas extract and their environmental impacts. John Stolz is a Professor of Environmental Microbiology in the Department of Biological Sciences and Director for the Center for Environmental Research and Education at Duquesne University. He studies the microbial metabolism of metals including arsenic, selenium, and chromium. He is currently investigating the environmental impacts of shale gas extraction with emphasis on water issues. He has published 63 journal articles, 30 book chapters, and edited two books. Dr. Stolz has a BS in Biology from Fordham University and a PhD in Microbial Ecology and Evolution from Boston University and was an NRC Fellow at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Cal Tech, and an NSF Plant Biology Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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