dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Lake Lynn Generation has submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission responses to some public comments about its actions taken at Cheat Lake in response to last summer's drought. The comments concerned Lake Lynn's state Water Quality ...
FAIRMONT – The state Department of Environmental Protection has $38 million in federal funds to plug certain oil and gas wells and is gathering public input on how to pick the projects. Thirteen people – some of them well owners – gathered at the Kingmont Community Building Wednesday ...
Recreating Sunnyside with downtown PODA? For decades, Morgantown city government looked askance at the bars and related activity in Sunnyside. Gatherings in the streets, couches burned and general mayhem requiring expensive police action and clean-ups. All eventually leading to demolition ...
CHARLESTON — If you’ve gone outside in the past day or two, you’ve noticed the haze. But that smokiness in the air doesn’t just make it harder to see the sunshine. It can also make it more difficult — and dangerous — to breathe. The West Virginia Department of Environmental ...
MORGANTOWN – National Energy Technology Laboratory is embracing a new technology called geospatial mapping to locate hard-to-find orphaned oil and gas wells. “Finding the location and characterizing these orphaned wells is critical to ensure safe and effective plugging, which will help ...
As you may have heard, the U.S. Geological Survey recently released a report on the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in West Virginia’s water. The study came at the behest of the state Legislature and was done in conjunction with several West Virginia agencies, ...