Last twelvemonth West Virginia issued over 5,000 permits for horizontal fracking wells. Horizontal fracking allows companies to drill for miles surreptitious inward whatever direction from i unmarried point. Although horizontal wells alone require a unmarried betoken to drill these unmarried points take away large gravel clearings. In West Virginia's mountainous terrain this oft requires flattening hilltops, novel roads together with tree clearance.
ProPublica together with the Charleston Gazette-Mail convey teamed upwards to map horizontal fracking wells inward West Virginia. A Guide to Every Permitted Natural Gas Well inward West Virginia is illustrated amongst an interactive map which non alone shows the place of every good exactly every bit good shows the guess extent of each surreptitious horizontal well.
The ProPublica article every bit good includes pocket-sized round out maps showing aerial views of all good pads inward the state. These aerial views present the extent to which trees convey been cleared for each well's construction. If you lot hover over the pocket-sized round out aerial sentiment of a good you lot tin dismiss sentiment who it is owned by. It is every bit good possible to filter the pocket-sized maps shown past times county together with past times society name.
