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State’s unemployment debit card program “problematic,” report says
In 2009, we reported on the problems some West Virginians were having with a then-new unemployment program that gave people their benefits on prepaid debit cards, rather than old-fashioned checks....
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Beware the Marcellus Shale gas boom?
A new report from the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy offers some cautions about the much-touted boom in oil and gas drilling in our state. The report, Booms and Busts: The Impact of West...
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Getting the right information on Marcellus Shale
West Virginia’s political leadership and much of the media continue their push to show how great Marcellus Shale drilling is going to be for our state, and to dispel any notion that the state’s tax...
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W.Va. AFL-CIO compares Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon to bank robber...
Yesterday, Chesapeake Energy officials were tweeting away in an effort to downplay the potential impacts of their company’s decision to sign a long-term contract to transport 75,000 barrels of ethane...
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How many jobs would a ‘cracker’ plant create?
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin waves to the crowd Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 prior to delivering his state of the state address at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin...
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DOE slashes estimate of Marcellus Shale reserve
In this July 27, 2011 file photo, Range Resources site manager Don Robinson stands near the well head by the drill that goes into the shale at a well site for natural gas in Washington, Pa. (AP...
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New state report: ‘Overall impact’ of W.Va. tax credit programs on economic...
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Maloney is certainly getting a lot of attention for his remarks about the tax credit legislation Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin eased through the legislature this...
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Why we’ll never know the real story of how W.Va. lost out on the Shell...
Yesterday morning, I happened to put in a call to my old buddy, Tomblin administration Commerce Secretary Keith Burdette, to ask him a couple of questions about the Marcellus Shale drilling boom —...
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Shedding light on Stamping Plant tax deal
The South Charleston Stamping Plant will be home to Gestamp, an $11 billion international automotive stamping company. Gazette photo by Chip Ellis The big news in the Kanawha Valley this week has been...
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McClendon gives up Chesapeake board chair
Here’s the announcement today from Chesapeake Energy: Chesapeake Energy Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has renegotiated the terms of the company’s Founder Well Participation...
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‘Pants on fire’: Getting facts right on Marcellus jobs
As the Marcellus drilling boom continues, the media reports of almost unlimited jobs and economic impact grow and grow (see here, here, here and here) — with few questions ever asked about where the...
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Part 2: How many jobs would a cracker create?
The potential construction of a natural gas “cracker” plant was understandably a big topic of discussion yesterday at Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s Energy Summit here in Charleston. Unfortunately, though,...
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The Utica Shale: Big deal or big hype?
Earlier this summer, Gazette-Mail business writer Andrew Brown produced a detailed look at how West Virginia’s oil and gas industry uses partition lawsuits to assemble the mineral rights it wants to...
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