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Also see OVEC’s Pipeline page
‘The Harms of Fracking’: New Report Details Increased Risks of Asthma, Birth Defects and Cancer
Industrial Strength: How the U.S. Government Hid Fracking’s Risks to Drinking Water
Fossil Fumes: A public health analysis of toxic air pollution from the oil and gas industry
Special Report: Renew WV: Fracking? Pipelines? Or Solar?
Special Report: Citizen’s Guide to Fracking Permits in West Virginia
Special Report: In Everyone’s Backyard: Assessing Proximity of Fracking to Communities At-Risk in West Virginia’s Marcellus Shale
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Session on the Human Rights Impacts
Methane Pollution from the Oil & Gas Industry
Marcellus Shale
Map: Marcellus Shale in WV
Interactive Mapping Application
Who Is That Man in Khaki?
Another Fracking Danger: Left-of-Center Escort Vehicles
PA DEP Not Protecting Environment (Nor People Who Live in It)
Rogersville Shale
Rogersville Shale: Next for West Virginia?
Rogersville Shale Info Sheet
Landfills and Fracking Waste
Hot Mess: How Radioactive Fracking Waste Wound Up Near Homes And Schools
Hot #Fracking Mess: Bill Hughes’ Presentation on Shale Waste Disposal
Fracking Waste: What Is It & What Do We Do About It
Radioactive Drill Cuttings and WV Landfills
Fracking Waste Study Says States Aren’t Doing Enough to Protect Public
WV Landfill Chair: State Too Eager For Shale Waste
Concerns Over Radioactive Waste Going Into WV Landfills
Underground Injection of Waste
Deep Injection Wells: How Drilling Waste Is Disposed Underground
Video: Frack Waste Injection Well Site – Concerned Residents in the Fayette Plateau
Injection Wells and Frack Waste
Living on Earth: “Arsenic and Frackwater Waste”
Bomb Trains / Bakken Shale
Exploding Bakken Crude: People Evacuated. Crude in River?
How Much Crude Lost from the WV Oil Train Explosion?
Fact Sheets and Handouts
Hydraulic Fracturing and Your Health
Shale Gas – NOT the Economical “Transition Fuel”
Chemicals Used by Hydraulic Fracturing Companies in PA
Monitor Your Well or Spring
Scientific American: Risks to Drinking Water
Places That Have Banned Fracking or
Have Passed Resolutions Against Fracking
This list is not complete, it grows often!
France Scotland Germany Bulgaria Wales
The State of Maryland – Maryland Third State to Ban Fracking
The State of New York
Alameda Becomes 5th County in California to Ban Fracking
And numerous towns in more than two dozen states, including West Virginia!
Other Groups Working on Shale Issues
Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition
WV Surface Owners’ Rights Organization
Doddridge County Watershed Association
Citizens Allied for Integrity and Accountability Inc.
Athens County Fracking Action Network
Freshwater Accountability Project
… and there are many more!
Movies and YouTubes
Gasland and Gasland II
Gaswork: The Fight for CJ’s Law
Fracking explained: opportunity or danger
Selected News Coverage and Reports
USGS Study Finds Large Increase in Fracking Water Use
Duke University study: Methane contamination of drinking water
Fracking the Future: How Unconventional Gas Threatens Our Water, Health and Climate
Food and Water Watch Activist Tools
The Right to Know, the Responsibility to Protect: State Actions Are Inadequate to Ensure Effective Disclosure of the Chemicals Used in Natural Gas Fracking
Is Your Health at Risk? See Interactive Map
Oil & Gas Threat Interactive Map for West Virginia
New Map, Analysis Chart Health Risks from Oil and Gas Pollution
This is Not Your Grandparents’ Oil & Gas Industry
Activities related to the “development” of deep shale oil and gas, often termed “fracking,” are wreaking havoc globally. In West Virginia, troubles in areas “developed” for Marcellus Shale include intense traffic problems including accidents and ruined roads; air, water and noise pollution and associated health problems from large-truck traffic, drilling and radioactive waste “disposal;” as well as the end of a rural way of life. Proposed large-scale pipelines that would move the extracted oil and gas threaten communities and some of our wildest lands. The Rogersville Shale could be the next shale — much deeper than the Marcellus — “developed” in our region. Use these pages to learn more about deep shale issues in WV and get involved with OVEC.
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OVEC’s Board of Directors’ Tour of WV Fracking Fields. Interviews featuring OVEC’s Executive Director Janet Keating and part-staff staff member Bill Hughes.
Frack Waste Injection Well Site in Fayette County, WV, a short film by Keely Kernan. The film is part of a series about resource extraction throughout West Virginia called “In the Hills and Hollows” and is sponsored by the Civil Society Institute and OVEC.
