Source : Mountain Messenger

Excerpt from Peggy Mackenzie’s article in the Mountain Messenger:

We are seeing profit-hungry motivated behavior mount as gas drilling companies scramble for leases in karst country. Like any “gold rush,” the money is so good.  Karst topography is a landscape created by groundwater dissolving sedimentary rock such as limestone, according to the website watersheds.org. Karst makes our Valley especially vulnerable when it comes to drilling.

As information streams in concerning the use of hydraulic fracture drilling for natural gas in the abundantly rich shale fields around the country and especially the Marcellus shale which lies beneath West Virginia and other states in the eastern US, it has been pointed out that natural gas is cleaner that coal and oil. Lawmakers, and members of the oil and gas industry along with the media have jumped on the bandwagon touting natural gas as America’s latest clean energy effort.

But, as Myles Yates of SaveTheWaterTable.org says, “Get it straight: Natural gas extracted by way of hydraulic fracture is NOT clean energy.”

Location: Senior Citizen Center in Union, WV

Date & Time: Monday 08.09.2010 @ 7pm

Description: Our organization will come together as a whole to regroup, to create plans for our next steps, and to further develop and refine our committees and leadership.

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Location : Senior Citizen Center in Union, WV

Date & Time : TUESDAY 07.27.2010 @ 19:00

Description : SavetheWaterTable.org is holding a meeting to get serious. Time to do the mechanics of forming an organization – brainstorm, research, communicate, strategize, act! The organization’s dual and simultaneous focus is equally on information dissemination and education as it is action and code reform. NOW is the time to get down to brass tacks, determine the next steps and mobilize into action in the form of motivated committees. Come and join us! Save the Water Table! This is NOT A PUBLIC MEETING. It is for members interested in forming and managing an organization. We will hold organized public Q&A informational meetings in the future.

To become a member, Register at SWTO