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Hard Rock Exploration has received a state permit to drill a test well into the Rogersville Shale in Putnam County.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that the Department of Environmental Protection approved the permit for the vertical test well on Monday.
Hard Rock plans to drill the well just south of Winfield’s town limits.
The Rogersville Shale underlies parts of southwestern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky and ranges from 9,000 to 14,000 underground. Cabot Oil and Gas drilled a test well in Putnam County in 2014 just northwest of Hurricane.
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The West Virginia Board of Education got its first look Wednesday at a proposal to update school funding in West Virginia, and voted that that the current funding formula does not provide a thorough and efficient education to public school students.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTwenty days from the election, Republican Congressman Riley Moore and Ace Parsi, the Democratic challenger in the second congressional district of West Virginia, met for a debate.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe changing colors of the leaves and the dropping temperatures of fall bring with them calls to get vaccinated against the flu. But in recent years, that call to action has expanded. We talk with Dr. Brian Huggins, Monongalia County health officer and medical director, about when to get vaccinated.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsGas prices are at record highs nationwide for autumn. West Virginia Democrats are again asking Gov. Patrick Morrisey to help cut the price.
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