{"id":2732,"date":"2017-02-12T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2017-02-12T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:07:13","slug":"martinsburg-journal-transcanada-pipeline-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=2732","title":{"rendered":"Martinsburg Journal TransCanada Pipeline Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the front page of the Martinsburg Journal<\/em> this morning, in large color type, the paper reported on the results of an online poll it conducted Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The poll asked a simple question — Do you support the TransCanada gas pipeline?<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the pipeline that TransCanada is proposing to put under the Potomac River and C&O Canal that will transport fracked gas from Pennsylvania into West Virginia, where it will be picked up by the proposed Mountaineer Gas pipeline.<\/span><\/p>\n

TransCanada was greeted by more than 100 opponents of the pipeline<\/a> last Thursday at an Open House in Hancock.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Those opposed to the pipeline in Hancock clearly outnumbered those in favor.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the front page of the Journal<\/em> raised eyebrows when the paper reported that the results of the poll were 76 percent in favor of the TransCanada pipeline to 24 percent opposed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Opponents of the poll were tracking the poll online Saturday night — and a screenshot at 10:30 pm showed the poll results at 195 votes opposed to the pipeline (75.58 percent) to only 63 votes in favor (24.42 percent).<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, the final total at the end of the day was 282 opposed to 64 in favor. That\u2019s 82 percent opposed to 18 percent in favor.<\/span><\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Journal<\/em> apologized for the error and promised to run a correction on page two of Monday\u2019s Journal.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Journal<\/em> is a pro-fossil fuels newspaper. <\/span><\/p>\n

On January 29, the Journal<\/em> ran an editorial titled — Pipelines a Good Start to Help State.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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