Rodney White is wrapping up a lengthy career with Platts today, and he has watched up close the battles over developing the Marcellus and Utica shales, among other areas. Not only that, he lives in West Virginia, home to part of the Marcellus. Here are some of his departing thoughts for The Barrel. Most of the people, if not all, the people in the oil and gas industry I have worked with, have been professional and spoken truthfully about the issues that mean so much to folks who live in and around the Appalachian oil and gas fields. Some companies have gone the extra mile to make things right when things go wrong. They fix roads, clean up streams and try to be good neighbors. It isn’t easy for anyone. The Appalachian terrain is not easy to work in. The terrain is steep and narrow, hence the reason we have rock […]