Energy Wars

When Fracking Companies Own the Gas Beneath Your Land

Natural gas companies have cut down forests and paved over farms on West Virginia private lands, calling it “reasonably necessary” to access subsurface gas they own the rights to. A new ProPublica documentary chronicles the legal battles. When Beth Crowder and David Wentz bought their 351-acre property in West Virginia in 1975, […]

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Kentucky Project’s Demise Linked to International Fallout From Journalist’s Murder

When battery manufacturer EnerBlu announced it would suspend plans for a new factory in Pikeville, Kentucky, the company used an intriguing phrase. “Unexpected geopolitical factors,” the company said, had soured the deal.   According to a former executive at the company, those factors tied the rural eastern Kentucky development project […]

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