Ken Ward, Jr. of the Charleston Gazette-Mail put together an excellent article on the wastewater treatment plant that Antero Resources is building on the Doddridge County and Ritchie County line.  He explains the need for the plant, the controversy around the plant, and gets into the regulatory framework that is either being used or abused depending on your point of view.  There are a number of points of view represented.

Basically, the plant takes up a lot of space and has disrupted the lives of the people who live next to it.

For regulatory purposes the plant is supposed to be privately held and used by Antero.  Being private instead of commercial, the plant doesn’t have to go through some regulatory approvals.  Interestingly, Antero will be taking water from other companies and treating it.  Usually that would be commercial, not private.   It looks like Antero is using a loophole to avoid regulations.  People don’t typically like that kind of thing, particularly when their lives are being disrupted by someone who is making a lot of money disrupting their lives.

There’s more in the article.  We won’t ruin it all for you here.