Guest Commentary: Natural gas pipelines induce fear, anxiety and loss in Appalachia

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By ERIN BROCK CARLSON and MARTINA ANGELA CARETTA | The Conversation
February 5, 2021 at 11:50 a.m.

More than 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines run throughout the United States. In Appalachia, they spread like spaghetti across the region.

Many of these lines were built in just the past five years to carry natural gas from the Marcellus Shale region of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, where hydraulic fracturing has boomed. West Virginia alone has seen a fourfold increase in natural gas production in the past decade.

Such fast growth has also brought hundreds of safety and environmental violations, particularly under the Trump administration’s reduced oversight and streamlined approvals for pipeline projects. While energy companies promise economic benefits for depressed regions, pipeline projects are upending the lives of people in their paths.

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/02/05/natural-gas-safety-environment-climate/

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1. ppl in WV can comfort themselves with their new federal min wage increase....oh wait... nt