Governor Justice's administration is jamming through the Antero Frackwaste dump, that will threaten so many families with the same sort of future that Minden, WV, is experiencing right now.
Rigged to Sacrifice Regular People
Petition: Don’t let Antero’s Frack Dump Poison Ritchie County, WV!
Antero's frack dump has been purposefully sited in the peripheral zone of concern for the drinking water intake for about a third of the population of Ritchie County.
Sacrifice Zones
"It's not what they are sacrificing, it's that they have been sacrificed."
West Virginia’s Resource Curse
Frack executives have specifically stated that they site "shale gas wells away from large homes where wealthy people live and who might have the money to fight such drilling and fracking operations."
What fracking sounds like
Just in case you were wondering...
Ken Ward on the Antero Project
Ken Ward writes: "When lawmakers passed and Tomblin signed a 2011 law aimed at better regulating oil and gas drilling, they weakened some provisions of it that would have provided more protections for residents near gas production operations. State officials said they would study those issues and could come back to them later. The studies were done, and recommended more protections, but the law hasn’t been updated based on the findings... "
The Appalachian Oracle 