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Champion Jack
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September 28, 2013
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — EQT Corp. is suing six West Virginia property owners who subverted the company's plans to put five gas wells on a 1,000-acre farm by sinking water wells on the site first.
Under state law, gas companies can't drill within 250 feet of an existing water well or spring used for human consumption.
Landowner Charles Heaster says he plans to build a cabin on the site. He says he doesn't want EQT to destroy another 50 acres of his farm near West Union.
Pennsylvania-based EQT wants a federal judge to issue an injunction ordering Heaster to plug and abandon the water well, and drop his construction plans for the cabin.
http://www.newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/381506/EQT-sues-over-water-wells-on-planned-gas-well-site.html?isap=1&nav=5071
Gasholes sue to stop a man from putting a water well on his own property
So much for property rights
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — EQT Corp. is suing six West Virginia property owners who subverted the company's plans to put five gas wells on a 1,000-acre farm by sinking water wells on the site first.
Under state law, gas companies can't drill within 250 feet of an existing water well or spring used for human consumption.
Landowner Charles Heaster says he plans to build a cabin on the site. He says he doesn't want EQT to destroy another 50 acres of his farm near West Union.
Pennsylvania-based EQT wants a federal judge to issue an injunction ordering Heaster to plug and abandon the water well, and drop his construction plans for the cabin.
http://www.newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/381506/EQT-sues-over-water-wells-on-planned-gas-well-site.html?isap=1&nav=5071
July 6, 2013
Operations can go on around the clock, with constant noise, light and air pollution. A cornerstone of the industrialization that comes with fracking is all the truck traffic -- hundreds of trucks a day travel on country roads never built for large trucks or the amount of wear and tear. Accidents are common. Wade took this photo after two dump trucks crashed, one of which was carrying drill cuttings:
http://www.alternet.org/environment/you-have-see-it-believe-it-what-its-have-fracking-your-backyard?page=0%2C2
What it's like to live in frack land
Before anyone starts pontificating about " clean energy this and energy independence ,that....I have seen this up close and personal and it is not clean and the tactics these drillers are using are straight from the thug handbook.
Side note: the " drill cuttings referenced in the quote are highly radioactive
Operations can go on around the clock, with constant noise, light and air pollution. A cornerstone of the industrialization that comes with fracking is all the truck traffic -- hundreds of trucks a day travel on country roads never built for large trucks or the amount of wear and tear. Accidents are common. Wade took this photo after two dump trucks crashed, one of which was carrying drill cuttings:
http://www.alternet.org/environment/you-have-see-it-believe-it-what-its-have-fracking-your-backyard?page=0%2C2
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