19 Delegates Call for Marcellus Permit Moratorium
Charleston Gazette
17 March 2011
March 17, 2011 by Alison Knezevich
In the final hours of the legislative session Saturday night, Delegate
Mike Manypenny, D-Taylor, was writing to state Department of
Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman and
collecting signatures from fellow delegates for the letter.
With the failure to pass any legislation to regulate Marcellus
drilling, Manypenny and others are asking Huffman to issue a moratorium
on new permits.
Manypenny and Delegate Barbara Fleischauer, D-Monongalia, plan a
Capitol press conference tomorrow at 1 p.m. to discuss the proposal.
According to the West Virginia Surface Owners’ Rights Organization, the
other delegates who signed the letter are:
Larry Barker, D-Boone; Anthony Barill, D-Monongalia; Bonnie Brown
D-Kanawha; Ray Canterbury, R-Greenbrier; John Doyle, D-Jefferson; Nancy
Guthrie, D-Kanawha; Bobbie Hatfield,
D-Kanawha; Linda Longstreth, D-Marion; Dale Martin, D-Putnam; Clif
Moore, D-McDowell; Don Perdue, D-Wayne;
Mary Poling, D-Barbour; Virginia Mahan, D-Summers; Pete Sigler,
R-Nicholas; Margaret Staggers, D-Fayette; Joe
Talbott, D-Webster; and Danny Wells, D-Kanawha.
This entry was posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 7:18 pm and is
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