East-West Rail project: It s going to cut us in half
By Phil Shepka & Ben Schofield
BBC News
image captionLidlington level crossing is at the heart of a number of East-West Rail proposals
Residents of the small Bedfordshire village of Lidlington talk proudly about their thatched-roof pub, beautiful woodlands, lake popular with birdwatchers and their unique position at the bottom of a steep winding hill. But there are fears it could be divided in two under plans for a new rail link. How have the villagers reacted?
Lidlington s level crossing is at the heart of a number of proposals under the £5bn East-West rail project. It could be closed for 40 minutes every hour.
Hilltops Council
Hilltops seniors are invited to take the opportunity to participate in Hilltops Council’s free activities to celebrate this Seniors Week 2021.
Tech Savvy Seniors’ classes provide answers to individual questions at the Hilltops libraries on Friday 16 April 10am – 12 noon. Improve your knowledge and discover endless possibilities with your device or using library computers with assistance from Youth mentors. No questions will be too difficult for our younger generation!
Local Clinical Nurse Consultant, Joy Howell, will present an informative discussion on “Keeping mentally and physically healthy in older age: some tips and myths” with time for Q & A with a professional practicing in the field of health and wellbeing. Presented at the library branches, in Harden at 11am on Friday 16 April, Boorowa at 3pm on Monday 19 April and Young at 10am on Wednesday 21 April.
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending February 12th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 237 billion cubic feet to 2,281 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 105 billion cubic feet, or 4.4% below the 2,386 billion cubic feet that were in storage on February 12th of last year, but 57 billion cubic feet, or 2.6% above the five-year average of 2,224 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 12th of February in recent years..the 237 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was less than the average forecast of a 251 billion cubic foot withdrawal from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but much more than the 141 billion cubic foot withdrawal from natural gas storage seen during the corresponding week of a year earlier, as well as the average withdrawal of 142 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically b
The Allegheny Front
Judy Burger stands next to her home in Belmont County, Ohio. Across the road two frack waste injection wells are being constructed. She fears noise and pollution from constant truck traffic.
Drilling for oil and gas brings up millions of gallons of wastewater. In Ohio, much of that waste is pumped into underground wells.
Some communities want a say when the state approves these injection wells.
After 25 years in their Belmont County, Ohio home, Judy Burger’s husband is getting ready to retire. But their mostly peaceful half acre is quickly changing. I m a nervous wreck, Burger said. I have my blinds.closed in my house. So I don t have to look across the street to see the mayhem and the destruction and the coming reality.
Each well drilled using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil and gas production creates tens of millions of gallons of wastewater, called produced