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
Posted on September 26, 2022
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Study: Industry Data Shows Hazardous Air Pollutants Are ‘Ubiquitous’ in the Natural Gas Transmission System By David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog | September 21, 2022 (Note: Photos and quotes have been added to the original blog) In the first peer-reviewed study… Continue Reading “Justification for More Robust Gas Leak Prevention Programs”
Category: Air pollution, air quality, Cancer in SW Pennsylvania, Fracking Health Risks, gas infrastructure, LNG, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Oil & Gas Contamination, Oil and Gas, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania air quality, Pipelines, Washington County PA
Posted on September 13, 2022
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Threatens to Put PA’s Taxpayer-Funded Well Plugging Program Even Further Behind By David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog | September 6, 2022 The pace of companies abandoning conventional oil and natural gas wells without plugging them continues to accelerate in 2022 threatening… Continue Reading “PA: Conventional O&G Companies Accelerating Pace of Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them”
Category: Abandoned Wells, methane, natural gas, Oil & Gas Contamination, Oil and Gas, Pennsylvania, Well pluggingTags: abandoned wells, drilling, gas wells, methane, oil and gas drilling, oil wells, orphaned wells, PA DEP, Pennsylvania taxpayers
Posted on August 9, 2022
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GUEST POST: An Industrial Machine Moving Across the PA Countryside Leaving Behind Big Liabilities and Spreading Pollution Everywhere It Goes By David E. Hess – PA Environment Digest – August 3, 2022 On July 30, Gov. Wolf directed the Department of Environmental Protection to… Continue Reading “Conventional Oil & Natural Gas Drilling”
Category: Oil & Gas Contamination, PennsylvaniaTags: abandoned wells, brine, chemical spills, conventional gas wells, conventional wells, diesel fumes, drill cuttings, drill rig, drilling, drilling waste, environmental impacts, forest fragmentation, fracking, gathering lines, hydraulic fracturing, hydrogen sulfide, industrial pollution, national forest, natural gas, oil tanks, road spreading, taxpayers, waste dump, waste pits, wastewater, well plugging
Posted on July 31, 2022
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Due to all the oil and gas drilling violations in Pennsylvania, someone once said, “If they’re drilling they’re spilling.” This latest report from the former head of the Pennsylvania DEP, David E. Hess, brings us up to date: 16 Oil & Gas Facility Spill,… Continue Reading “Thrills & Spills”
Category: Marcellus shale, Oil & Gas Contamination, PennsylvaniaTags: Allegheny County, Bradford County, Butler County, Chesapeake Appalachia, Clearfield County, CNX, drilling, Dynamic Frac Services, Elk County, EQT Drilling, fracking, Greene County, Greylock Conventional, hydraulic fracturing, KU Resources, Marcellus Shale, MCC Partners, Penneco Oil Company, PennEnergy, Range Resources Appalachia, Repsol Oil & Gas, Sullivan County, Susquehanna County, SWN Production Company, Tioga County, Washington County