Category: natural gas
Posted on November 20, 2022
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The Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area leak in Cambria County is proving difficult to stop, while bringing worrisome comparisons to the Aliso Canyon and Powhatan Point incidents, where huge volumes of methane reached the atmosphere. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas that contributes… Continue Reading “Massive Leak at Gas Storage Area in Western PA”
Category: climate change, gas infrastructure, Leaking gas wells, methane, natural gas, Oil and gas accidents, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania air quality, Safety, SW PennsylvaniaTags: blowout, Cambria County, climate change, Equitrans, Equitrans LP, gas storage, global warming, methane, methane emissions, methane gas, natural gas, natural gas leaks, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania DEP, Rager Mountain Gas Storage
Posted on November 17, 2022
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Mr. Hess served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection from 2001 to 2003, Executive Deputy at DEP from 1995 to 2001, as staff to the PA Senate Environmental Committee and various positions in the former Department of Environmental Resources, working on… Continue Reading “3 Major Natural Gas Articles from David Hess – PA Environment Digest Blog”
Category: Fracking in Pennsylvania, Health near Fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Oil & Gas Contamination, Pennsylvania air quality, PFAS, Radioactive drilling waste, SW Pennsylvania, Washington County PATags: Chevron, drilling, drilling noise, EQT, fracking, health risks, health studies, hydraulic fracturing, impoundment dam, impoundments, LWV, Marcellus Shale, Marianna, PFAS, PITT, public health, shale gas, shale gas drilling, Washington County Pennsylvania
Posted on November 15, 2022
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Our March 21, 2014 flight over the Utica and Marcellus Shale revealed the rapid pace of development on a huge cryogenic gas plant in a West Virginia valley known as Majorsville (Google Map link) as well as capturing additional images of shale gas production,… Continue Reading “Marcellus Shale Images | Majorsville transformation”
Category: Majorsville, West Virginia, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Utica shale, West VirginiaTags: cryogenic gas plant, gas liquids, gas pipelines, gas processing, images, Majorsville WV, Marcellus Shale, Marcellus shale photos, MarkWest, pipelines, Utica Shale, Utica shale photos, West Virginia
Posted on November 10, 2022
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Our home electric and gas utility bills arrived in late October. Total: $38.67 Image: Electric bills for 12 month period = $290.44$24.20 average per month includes EV charging It’s been over a year since we upgraded our home heating and cooling system from an… Continue Reading “Hybrid HVAC with Solar Energy and an EV”
Category: energy costs, Energy Savings, Energy storage, Home battery backup, natural gas, Natural gas prices, Pennsylvania, renewable energy, solar, Solar and EV, solar energy, Solar energy in Pennsylvania, Solar energy savings, Solar EV Charger, Utility BillsTags: air conditioning, Chevy Bolt, electric bill, electric grid, electric vehicle, electricity rates, energy savings, EV, EV charging, gas bill, gas furnace, heat pump, home cooling, home heating, HVAC, McMurray Pa, natural gas, October, Pennsylvania, renewable energy, renewables, rooftop solar, solar energy, solar panels, utility bills
Posted on November 7, 2022
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Lawsuit filed October 28, 2022 in Washington County, Pennsylvania Washington County Courthouse Latkanich v. Chevron et al PFAS: The latest toxic concern for those near fracking By Kristina Marusic | Environmental Health News | August 4, 2022 For more than a decade, Bryan Latkanich… Continue Reading “LANDMARK LAWSUIT: Latkanich v Chevron, EQT, PFAS Defendants”
Category: Litigation, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Pennsylvania, PFAS, SW Pennsylvania, Washington County PATags: acetone, air contamination, barium, benzaldehyde, benzene, biocides, butyl cyclohexane, chemicals, Chevron, Crawford County, drill sites, drilling, drinking water, E&S, EQT, ethyltoluene, flaring, formaldehyde, frac fluid, fracking, Fredericktown, gas infrastructure, hippuric acid, hydraulic fracturing, impoundments, Latkanich, lawsuits, Marcellus Shale, Martins Ferry, methane, napthalene, NORM, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, PFAS, PFOA, PFOS, pits, pollution, polyethylene glycol, produced water, radiation, radioactive waste, radium, spills, strontium, styrene, tetradecane, thorium, toluene, toxins, transmuconic acid, Utica Shale, VOCs, water contamination, water well, wells, xylene
Posted on November 6, 2022
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Funding came partly from federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Reid Frazier reports on November 4, 2022 in StateImpact Pennsylvania: EPA awards $4 million for new air monitoring in Pa. environmental justice areas The grants will pay for 11 projects around the state, totaling $4.27… Continue Reading “EPA awards $4 million for new air monitoring in Pennsylvania”
Category: Air pollution, air quality, Allegheny County PA, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, DEP violations, EPA, fossil fuels, gas infrastructure, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Ohio River Valley, Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, Pittsburgh International Airport - PIT, Shell Cracker Plant, SW Pennsylvania, U.S. Climate Legislation, Washington County PATags: air emissions, air inversions, air pollution, air quality, air quality monitoring, Allentown, Burgettstown, Clairton, compressor stations, Delaware County, EJ, emissions, EPA, EPA Region III, FracTracker, GASP, MarkWest, New Castle County, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, ProtectPT, Revolution Gas Plant, Smith Township, Washington County Pennsylvania
Posted on October 28, 2022
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Sean O’Leary wrote an excellent Ohio River Valley Institute blog on October 13, 2022 about the past, present and future of natural gas prices. Source: Author’s calculation based on EIA U.S. Price of Natural Gas Delivered to Residential Customers. Consumer Price Index calculation using the Bureau… Continue Reading “Inflation, Exports and Natural Gas Prices”
Posted on October 17, 2022
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The regulation meets 2016 standards set by the federal government, and if the rule isn’t finalized by December 16th, Pennsylvania faces around $500 million in highway funding sanctions in the next year. (See YouTube video below) DEP estimates the regulation could reduce VOC emissions… Continue Reading “PA Moves Gas Well Emissions Rule to Beat Costly Federal Deadline”
Category: Leaking gas wells, methane, natural gas, ozone, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania air quality, PFAS, SW Pennsylvania, Well pluggingTags: conventional gas wells, conventional wells, emissions, gas wells, Harrisburg, legislation, methane emissions, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Legislature, VOC
Posted on October 15, 2022
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OPINION: Joseph Otis Minott | Clean Air Council | October 6, 2022 Big gas has throttled Pennsylvania’s economy and that of the wider Ohio Valley for the last fifteen years. While gas executives like Energy Transfer’s Kelcy Warren and Chesapeake’s Aubrey McClendon managed to… Continue Reading “MINOTT: Big Gas Will Throttle our Economy no More”
Category: natural gas, Ohio River Valley, Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, plastic, Shell Cracker PlantTags: air pollution, Beaver County, Bloomberg Philanthropies, cancer, Clean Air Council, drilling, emissions, health care, health risks, heart disease, hydraulic fracturing, Joseph Otis Minott, lung disease, Marcellus Shale, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, petrochemicals, public health, renewable energy, solar energy, tax breaks
Posted on October 5, 2022
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Definition of ‘Rife’ – In widespread existence, practice, or use; increasingly prevalent. An October 1, 2022 BBC story by Jess Kelly, Owen Pinnell & Esme Stallard paints the dark reality facing children and their parents around the oilfields in Iraq. That reality is more poignantly displayed in a video that shows… Continue Reading “FLARING: Where ‘Cancer is Rife’”
Category: Leukemia near gas production, LNG, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Ohio River Valley, Oil & Gas Contamination, Oil and Gas, Pennsylvania air quality, Pennsylvania Dept of Health, Radioactive drilling waste, Washington County PATags: acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, benzene, BTEX, Canon-McMillan high school, Canonsburg PA, Cross Creek County Park, Ewing Sarcoma, flares, flaring, health study, health threat, leukaemia, leukemia, radioactive shale, Radium 226