 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The EPA just shut down three coal fired power plants in West Virginia which goes along with layoffs from a significant share of the state's remaining coal miners. Now the EPA is going after the farmers after determining that all ditches, potholes, swamps, swales and ephemeral streams are under their joint jurisdiction with the junior damn builders, a/k/a Army Corps of Engineers. Farm Bureau had fought the proposed plan but the EPA used taxpayer money and had all the green weenies in the country send in letters of support. Some may remember that Albert Gore Jr. [the fellow who was said to have invented the internet, along with other whoppers] said we should get all our food from third world countries. Obviously he has many likeminded zealots in the federal government who want to shut down agriculture, especially all related to meat and egg production. Who knows, perhaps government agents spread the bird flu causing the current chaos in the poultry sector. That, just like the proposed turnover of "Club Gitmo" to the Castro brothers would help bring America to its knees, a/k/a fundamental transformation.
Helen Nutter is in Roane General Hospital where she is to undergo surgery to put back together the broken bones in her arm.
Jackie Boggs & James Copeland have a new baby boy weighing 8 lb. 10 oz. and 21 1/2" long. He has been named Jaxen Copeland. Mother has since had some problems.
Harold Cunningham age 77 of Mt. Zion passed away. He was a son of Roy & Zela Cunningham. He leaves his widow, Vera Jo and two children Michael Cunningham and Connie Wilson.
Dotty dePue age 74 of Spencer passed away. She and her husband farmed on the old Benniah dePue farm on Spring Creek and operated the dePue Oil Company, the outfit that set fuel tanks on drilling locations, construction sites, etc.
Johnna Heater of 3666 Secrest Road, Apt B-4, Wooster Ohio 44699 had her surgery on May 20 and it was determined that she has cancer. She noted that 8 car loads of gas & oil representatives from Texas & Oklahoma came to see her in the hospital to see what they could do for her. She asked that folks pray for her.
The USDA's multiflora rose plants were covered with flowers this year showing that the virus that was supposed to kill the pest that the government men inflicted on the citizens didn't live up to expectations. Perhaps all those who have positions in the big fancy building down in the swamps of the lower Potomac could be made to spend the rest of their lives grubbing the Asian pests with the stipulation that they cannot use gloves.
It was reported that some of the trees that Freddie Bush cut for Heartwood Fund were so big that they had to be logged up so they could be pulled up the hill to the log landing.
R. W. Arthur was attending to business in Elizabeth.
One of the advantages of living in the Creston area is that there are no riots, etc. The rioters in Ferguson Missouri are now mad that the George Soros group that hired them and fetched them there from all over the nation quit paying them the promised $5,000/month.
Down at the Mouth of the Elk there is talk about the results given by the "Blue Ribbon Panel" on highway funding. Those who attended the "listening tour" meetings realized that the whole thing was a sham, sorta like Madame Hillary's listening tours complete with those in the audience who were to give the predetermined answers to the specially selected questions. Those who follow the highway situation can only conclude that since they cannot wisely use what they have now, any extra $$ would only be blown like most lottery winners.
Momentum is building a pipeline from Doddridge County to go to the existing Columbia line in Braxton County (the line the taxpayers built in World War II for oil transport).
It was reported that a well is to be drilled this summer in the Medina area [northern Jackson County] and that Cabot's Rogersville shale well in Putnam Count, in addition to being wet, is making 20 million cubic of gas/day.
Some folks were at a meeting in Ritchie County the other day and the locals said that they were told that the "royalty owners" were all on board for the big company forced pooling bill. The Wirt royalty owners made it clear that such definitely was NOT the case. The out of state biggies do not want to pay fair royalties and bonuses and want the legislature to give them a multibillion dollar windfall. Some are greased and others are gullible and some think it won't impact their part of the state. The forced pooling bill will impact just 54 of the state's 55 counties as Jefferson County apparently has no oil & gas formations.
The price of Pennsylvania grade crude rose to $59.30/bbl. with condensate fetching $35.30, Marcellus &Utica light $53.30 and medium $59.30/bbl. April natural gas brought a whopping $1.05.
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