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FrackTracker and WV Host Farms Confer in WV Gas Fields

Article by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County

FrackTracker sent a small group to meet with West Virginia Host Farms the 26th of September. Most people who study fracking know about FrackTracker through it’s maps which show newly permitted wells and know about Host Farms from it’s program which allows scientists and other visitors to have access to points of interest through landowners and providing meals and lodging for them.



The groups met in West Union for lunch and then toured a well site, a pipeline laying location, and a large and growing compressor station. Extensive discussion of “after-the-fact” permits and “negotiated settlements” of fines for infractions of law and regulations occupied a large part of the lunch period. There is a great contrast between the way corporations and individuals are treated.

Field Trip to a West Virginia Host Farm Planned by SavetheWaterTable.org

SWTO is arranging a trip to one of the WV Host Farms fracking areas on Oct. 25-27, 2013 and are inviting interested members to join us.

The Host Farm program is providing journalists, photographers, scientists, students, activists, politicians and concerned citizens with proximity to fracking activities from their own properties. The people who comprise the Host Farm network are committed to exposing the negative impacts that the fracking activities have unleashed.

My Property Value Plummeted Because Of Nearby Fracking! Can I Sue?

Here in West Virginia, homeowners are lookiung at land being cleared for fracking sites next to their homes that just happen to be for sale. With months of noisy, unsightly work just getting started, how will they ever sell their home? Potential buyers will have heard about the large number of trucks that will soon be clogging the quaint county lanes and they will have heard about people who claim fracking destroys water wells for miles around the fracking sites. Who will buy a home next to a potential health hazard when the home's main selling point, the glorious view of the hills of West Virginia, no longer exists?

West Virginia Landowners, Prep for Possible Drilling Contamination

by Dan Heyman, Public News Service - WV

West Virginia citizen groups say they're helping landowners prepare for potential air and water contamination from Marcellus natural gas drilling. Doddridge County landowner Christina Woods works with her local watershed association and with West Virginia Host Farms, a group that helps landowners connect with researchers who can test their water and air.

Woods said she could have used that kind of help a year ago, when a company drilling a well a mile from her home dumped fracking waste on the road.

"The smell was so strong that my throat started hurting immediately, and my tongue went numb and tingly," Woods recalled. "All summer, I tried to get the DEP to take care of it. They said it just wasn't toxic enough to warrant a full cleanup."