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Dozens of TransCanada workers being laid off in West Virginia as company integrates Columbia Pipeline Group
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 ...
$2M natural gas truck facility planned for Clendenin
$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 ...
Could methanol plant be start of new growth?
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 ...
Research at WVU concludes waste from test fracking wells safe to be on highways
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 ...
DC Circuit Challenge to EPA’s New Methane Rules Gains Steam
By Stan Parker Law360, New York (August 2, 2016, 8:43 PM ET) The coalition challenging new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations on methane emissions swelled in size Tuesday, with more than a dozen states and a host of fossil fuel industry groups asking the D.C. Circuit to review the ...