One Man’s Mission to Reinvent the Northern Panhandle Glynis Board March 12, 2016 Photo by Glynis Board Story courtesy of Weelunk partner West Virginia Public Broadcasting Accompanying story here: Listen Is the Northern Panhandle experiencing an economic rebirth? More than one panha...
A Future: Live As If There Were One Callaway Barr January 24, 2016 2 Albert Einstein once said, “Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.” Wheeling, in its lack of foresight and adaptation to economic cha...
Will Companies Claim Eminent Domain on Gas Rights? Glynis Board September 8, 2015 1 Eminent Domain of Natural Gas Rights Discussed in Wheeling About 10 people showed up for a public meeting at the McLure House in Wheeling last week (9/3/15) to discuss forced oil and gas leasing. It may not ...
Commissioner Coffland and Today’s Belmont County Steve Novotney August 22, 2015 1 They sat back, and they watched from across the Ohio River as commissioners in Wetzel, Marshall, and Ohio counties handled an invasion by the natural gas and oil industries that began in 2007, and what they saw...
Fracking the People Steve Novotney December 13, 2014 3 By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com I asked Belmont County Commissioner Matt Coffland what he thought of the fracking-under-the-Ohio-River proposal a couple of months ago, and he replied, “I sure hope they don’...
DEP Official: Radiation Levels in Local Fracking Waste Safe Ashton Marra November 19, 2014 By Ashton Marra West Virginia Public Radio and Weelunk.com Listen to the story here: WVPublicBroadcasting State lawmakers were updated Monday morning on a study the Department of Environmental P...