Marcellus Shale Brings Flurry of Activity: ; Gas Boom Mirrors Gold Rush
Charleston Daily Mail › November 28, 2011
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NEW MARTINSVILLE - It's like the stories you've read about the California gold rush, but this rush is to West Virginia's northern panhandle and the lure is natural gas.
There are traffic jams in this Wetzel County town, even at mid- day. Almost anything that fits on a trailer can be seen moving up and down Route 2. To ease the congestion, the industry voluntarily suspends truck movement on secondary roads during the hours school buses operate.See the full content of this document
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Marcellus Shale Brings Flurry of Activity: ; Gas Boom Mirrors Gold Rush
Take a back road when school buses aren't running and you are likely to be slowed by a convoy of tractor-trailers moving entire sets of drilling equipment to a new Marcellus Shale well site.
Visit a well site and you'll see the expected: Workers clad in heavy outdoor work clothing, climbing rigs, moving equipment and working in trailers that are half offices and half homes away from home. The surprise isn't that there are so many people drilling for gas - it is that so ...See the full content of this document
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