Nicolas Porta: How can Mountaineers truly be free? (Daily Mail) October 14, 2016            Montani Semper Liberi is the official motto of West Virginia, which means “Mountaineers are always free.” It is a proud and strong motto, and it speaks to the spirit of West Virginians.           In reality, however, the proud people of our ...

http://www.wdtv.com/content/news/US-Well-Services-lays-off-workers-in-Jane-Lew-395176961.html Community members discuss how the layoffs aren't only a hit to the workers, but are a hit to the community. By Renata Di Gregorio | Posted: Wed 5:54 PM, Sep 28, 2016 JANE LEW, W.Va. (WDTV)- In Jane Lew dozens of workers at U.S. Well Services went to work Wednesday only to find they've ...

Two Years Into Oil Slump, U.S. Shale Firms Are Ready to Pump More Shale industry has proved resilient despite low prices thanks to cost cuts, efficiency improvements By Lynn Cook and Bradley Olson Sept. 27, 2016 5:30 a.m. ET When oil prices began to plunge two years ago due to a global glut of crude, experts predicted ...

  By Shauna Johnson in News | September 22, 2016 at 4:05PM CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Dozens of employees of TransCanada in West Virginia, formerly employed by Columbia Pipeline Group, are being laid off this week as part of TransCanada’s efforts to align operations with combined company needs, according to a spokesperson. The exact number of ...

$2M natural gas truck facility planned for Clendenin Andrew Brown , Staff Writer MarkWest, a natural gas company with operations in several states, is planning to build a trucking facility for natural gas liquids near Clendenin. The company filed for a building permit for the proposed project with Kanawha County late last week. According to ...

Daily Mail editorial: Could methanol plant be start of new growth? August 18, 2016 With chemical manufacturing plants lined along the Kanawha River from Belle to Institute, the area used to be known as the Chemical Valley. Few people use that term anymore. Many of the plants and most of the jobs the chemical industry ...

From WVUToday MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Researchers at West Virginia University studied drilling wastes produced at two research wells near Morgantown and found they are well below federal guidelines for radioactive or hazardous waste. Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the West Virginia Water Research Institute at WVU, will present these and other findings from the Marcellus Shale Energy and Environmental Laboratory, or ...

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. http://www. wsj .ccm/articles/judge-strikes-down-obama-rule-on-fracki ng-on-public-lands-1466600116   U.S. Judge Strikes Down Obama Rule on Fracking on Public Lands Interior Department lacked the authority to issue stricter regulation, federal judge in Wyoming finds By AMY HARDER Updated June 22, 2016 6:35 p.m. ET A federal judge in Wyoming has blocked an Interior Department rule ...

Production of crude oil and natural gas has more than offset the drop in coal use over the last six years, the federal government said Monday. Energy production has soared over the last half-decade, with shale oil leading the nation to record energy development, according the Energy Department's independent research arm. The Energy Information Administration ...

A recent USA Today/Rock the Vote survey of millennials shows 80 percent of millennials support transitioning to “mostly clean” or renewable energy by 2030. Although their hearts may be in the right place, few millennials appear to realize how much energy their lifestyles actually consume, where this energy comes from and how much it would ...