MORGANTOWN – One of the factors that helped sink Amendment 2, with its associated plan to reimburse counties for lost property taxes from state budget surpluses, is the certainty – cited regularly by opponents – that surpluses are uncertain. Natural gas severance tax revenues played ...
A building in downtown Morgantown was briefly evacuated on Wednesday afternoon after Morgantown fire and police departments responded to assist with a gas leak at the structure housing Huntington Bank, on the corner of High Street and Pleasant Street. According to Christine Mitchell, ...
For months now, West Virginia’s severance tax collections for energy production — primarily coal and natural gas — have been running way ahead of estimates. The state finished the fiscal year June 30 with $769 million in severance tax revenue, 233% ahead of estimates. The state has ...
MORGANTOWN — “Beyond Coal” and “Beyond Gas” have been catchphrases signifying the generally adversarial nature of the clean energy transition in West Virginia. But “Beyond Despair” would be a good catchphrase for the spirit of WVU's Evolving Energy Conference taking place ...
MORGANTOWN — Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) announced on Friday that it has selected West Virginia for an 1,800-megawatt combined-cycle natural gas power station using carbon capture and storage. Following permitting and construction, the project will go into operation later this ...
MORGANTOWN – Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin are on the same page on getting the Mountain Valley Pipeline completed. But Capito said on Thursday that she isn't yet on board with Manchin's permitting reform bill that would enable it. “Let's see the details, let's see what ...