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Posted on December 4, 2022
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From a fish kill in our public park, to a torched impoundment liner and decimated creek on Labor Day, these three 2009 bloopers added to local excitement! CROSS CREEK COUNTY PARK: BUFFALO, PENNSYLVANIA: DUNKARD CREEK FISH KILL: Sometime around September 1, 2009, there was… Continue Reading “Fracking & Flaring BLOOPERS 2009”
Category: Fracking & Flaring Bloopers, PennsylvaniaTags: Best Impoundment, blooper reels, candlestick flare, Cross Creek County Park, Dunkard Creek, fish kill, flaring, flowback, gas wells, Hopewell Township, hydraulic fracturing, Lowry Impoundment, Marcellus Shale, Washington County Pennsylvania, Wotring Road
Posted on November 28, 2022
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Southwestern PennsylvaniaIn the Spring of 2011, Chesapeake Appalachia LLC was the first oil and gas producer to drill an unconventional Marcellus Shale well in Union Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Yet, while large drilling sites are multiplying in Union Township, there are still no unconventional… Continue Reading “TALE OF TWO TOWNSHIPS: A Decade of Fracking Issues in America”
Category: EQT Gas Production, PennsylvaniaTags: drilling, El Rama, EQT, Finleyville, fracking, gas wells, Hartson Compressor Station, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, McIntosh Compressor Station, natural gas, oil and gas, Sarah 9H, Sarah Well Pad, shale gas, Union Township
Posted on November 14, 2022
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The following DEP notices were published in the November 12 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. By David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups — Lower Mount… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania DEP Permit Notices | Compliance Dashboard | Nov 5-12, 2022”
Category: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Bulletin, Petrochemicals, Pipelines, SW Pennsylvania, Washington County PATags: Armstrong County, Beaver County, Bradford County, Chevron, Clinton County, cracker plant, Delaware County, Elk County, EQT, FERC, gas wells, Governor Shapiro, Greene County, Lycoming County, methane, NFG, Northampton County, oil and gas, Pennsylvania DEP, Range Resources, Senator Fetterman, Susquehanna County, unconventional wells, Warren County, Washington County Pennsylvania
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 6, 2022
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The following DEP and Susquehanna River Basin Commission notices were published in the October 1 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industrial facilities. Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. Compiled by David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog… Continue Reading “Oil and Gas Facility Public Notices in PA”
Category: PA oil and gas notices, PennsylvaniaTags: air quality, Allegheny County, Armstrong County, Beaver County, Berks County, Bradford County, compressor stations, drilling, Elk County, encroachment permits, erosion and sedimentation, fracking, gas processing, gas wells, Greene County, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, McKean County, methane, oil and gas, pipelines, SHELL, SRBC, Susquehanna County, Susquehanna River, Tioga County, Washington County, water withdrawal, Westmoreland County, Wyoming County
Posted on September 22, 2022
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Bethany WV residents continue their fight against new forced pooling law In the September 10, 2022 blog, WEST VIRGINIA: Federal Court Throws Out ‘Forced Pooling’ Lawsuit, we saw where a lawsuit seeking to stop West Virginia’s new natural gas unitization law was ruled invalid.… Continue Reading “ROUND 2: West Virginia Forced Pooling Law Fight”
Category: Forced Pooling, Gas royalties, hydraulic fracturing, Legislation, Marcellus shale, natural gas, West VirginiaTags: Bethany, Brooke County, drilling, forced pooling, gas lease, gas wells, horizontal wells, oil and gas, oil and gas conservation, property rights, SB694, unitization
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 September 5, 2022
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Small Penalties no Deterrent to Future Abandonments by David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog | August 30, 2022 Only 15 of the 256 conventional oil and gas operators who received notices of violation for abandoning wells without plugging them over the last… Continue Reading “Only 15 out of 256 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Who Abandoned Wells Were Fined by PA DEP”
Posted on August 30, 2022
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Post-production costs for transportation and processing ‘gutting’ gas royalty payments below the required 12.5% minimum An August 25, 2022 story by Mike Jones “Farmers discuss natural gas royalties with state, local leaders” in the Observer-Reporter included quotes from several local farmers lamenting their shrinking… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania Farmers with Gas Leases Feel Shortchanged”
Category: Gas royaltiesTags: drilling, frac chemicals, fracking, gas wells, Hopewell Township, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Washington County Pennsylvania, well pad
Posted on August 27, 2022
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Oil & Gas Well Drillers Notified DEP They are Cleaning-up Soil & Water Contaminated with Chemicals Harmful to Human Health and Aquatic Life at 272 Locations in PA by David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog | August 24, 2022 Conventional and unconventional… Continue Reading “Creating New Pennsylvania Brownfields”
Posted on August 18, 2022
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New study finds that children born within 1.24 miles (2 kilometers) of an active well site were 2 to 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia between the ages of 2 and 7. Researchers at the Yale School of Public… Continue Reading “More leukemia in young children living near Pennsylvania fracking sites”
Posted on August 4, 2022
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Hickory and Mt. Pleasant Township were ground zero when Marcellus Shale fracking began in Pennsylvania back in 2004. As with many communities, gas development became an extremely divisive issue among neighbors. Today’s story by Mike Jones in the Observer-Reporter, DEP investigating mysterious odor emitted… Continue Reading “What’s That Smell?”
Category: Pennsylvania, Washington County PATags: centralized impoundment dams, emissions, gas pipelines, gas wells, Hickory Pa, Marcellus Shale, methane, Mt Pleasant Township, oil and gas, pig launchers, radioactive waste, Radium 226, shale gas, shale waste, waste pits
Posted on July 27, 2022
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According to this latest news story, EQT’s transaction with Diversified “freed EQT of about $200 million in plugging and other liabilities.” On July 25th, reporter Anya Litvak covered this latest story about abandoned wells in our tri-state area in “Lawsuit claims Diversified and EQT… Continue Reading “LITIGATION: The Abandoned Well ‘Hot Potato’”
Posted on June 16, 2022
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The June 8, 2022 explosion and fire at the FREEPORT LNG export terminal in Quintana, Texas, dropped the Henry Hub commodity price for natural gas, from $9.34 two days before the incident to $7.26 a week later, a huge 23% price drop. Conversely, LNG… Continue Reading “LNG Export Outage Helping US Prices”
Category: exports, LNG, PennsylvaniaTags: Britain, commodity prices, drilling, Europe, exports, fracking, gas wells, heat wave, hydraulic fracturing, Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG, Marcellus Shale, natural gas, oil and gas, renewable energy, renewables, solar energy, Texas, wind energy
Posted on June 13, 2022
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While the CEO of the largest US shale gas producer keeps talking about “unleashing” Marcellus Shale natural gas, and more specifically, it’s condensed liquid form, LNG, we’re suddenly snapped back to its radioactive realities. Reporter JUSTIN NOBEL spelled it out in his June 9,… Continue Reading “Unleashing the American LNG ‘Trojan Horse’”
Category: LNG, PennsylvaniaTags: Cove Point, drilling, Europe, exports, fracking, gas wells, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, Marcellus Shale, oil and gas, radium, Radium 226, Radium 228, radon, shale gas
Posted on June 11, 2022
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Allegheny County Council held a public hearing June 9, 2022 on legislation to prevent the leasing of additional county parks for gas production activities, following the non-surface oil and gas lease signed in October 2014 for Deer Lakes Park, to allow hydraulic fracturing under… Continue Reading “‘Protect Our Parks’ in Allegheny County, PA”
Category: Allegheny County PA, Pennsylvania, PittsburghTags: Deer Lakes Park, drilling, fracking, gas lease, gas wells, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, methane, oil and gas, Rich Fitzgerald
Posted on June 7, 2022
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Today’s PA Environment Digest Blog contained important testimony from the Pennsylvania Senate Hearing held last Thursday and seen in its entirety in this video. Brian S. Schwartz, MD, MS laid it out with crystal clarity in his June 2, 2022 testimony: “We’ve studied asthma… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania Must Act”
Category: Fracking Health Risks, PennsylvaniaTags: asthma, congestive heart failure, COPD, diagnoses, Dr Brian Schwartz, drilling, fracking, gas wells, Geisinger Health, health studies, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, Maryland, mental health, methane, New York, oil and gas, pregnancies, preterm births
Posted on June 3, 2022
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Yesterday, Pennsylvania Senators Katie Muth and Jim Brewster hosted a public hearing in Monroeville, PA: “Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect Public Health and What We Can Do to Correct It.” Watch the 2 hour and 44 minute hearing video… Continue Reading “Fracking Public Health and Policy in Pennsylvania”
Category: Marcellus shale, PennsylvaniaTags: Alison Steele, Brian Schwartz, Cathy Lodge, centralized impoundment dams, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, compressor stations, cryogenic plants, DOH, drilling, EHP, EIP, ethane, fracking, fugitive emissions, gas processing, gas wells, Gasland, Geisinger Health, Gillian Graber, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, Jay Costa, Jim Brewster, Katie Muth, Lisa Graves-Marcucci, LNG, methane emissions, oil and gas, Pennsylvania DEP, Pennsylvania Legislature, pig launchers, pipelines, propane, Protect PT, public health, public policy, Ra226, shale waste, Smith Township, Washington County, well pads
Posted on May 23, 2022
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Reporter Anya Litvak’s May 21, 2022 story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ‘Airport authority brokers new deals with CNX to incentivize drilling and, possibly, make fuel from natural gas‘ revealed old and new information about the business dealings of the Allegheny County Airport Authority (ACAA)… Continue Reading “PIT Airport Doubling-Down on Fracked Gas”
Category: Pittsburgh International Airport - PITTags: ACAA, airport, Allegheny County Airport Authority, CNX Resources, cryogenic plant, drilling, fracking, gas lease, gas processing, gas wells, Marcellus Shale, PIT, Pittsburgh International Airport, public comments, shale gas, Southpointe, Utica Shale
Posted on May 17, 2022
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If you take a look at how much Texas nets from its severance tax on oil and gas production, you realize how badly Pennsylvanians are getting screwed with mere ‘chump change’ impact fees. There have been multiple efforts over the years, the latest by… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania’s Impact Fee is ‘Chump Change’”
Category: Pennsylvania, UncategorizedTags: Cross Creek County Park, drilling, ethane, exports, fracking, gas liquids, gas wells, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, impact fee, LNG, Marcellus Shale, Mariner East, methane, oil and gas revenues, politicians, propane, resource curse, taxpayers, Washington County
Posted on May 3, 2022
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(Reprinted with permission from the May 2, 2022 PA Environment Digest Blog by David E. Hess, former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection) From 2016 to 2021, DEP approved 752 plans for the permanent disposal of drill cuttings at oil and gas well drilling… Continue Reading “Dusting by Oil and Gas Drillers”
Category: Oil and GasTags: alternative waste disposal, asthma, conventional wells, COPD, drill cuttings, drilling, dust emissions, dusting, gas wells, Kurt Klapkowski, Marcellus Shale, NORM, oil and gas drilling, PA DEP, particulates, radioactive waste, rock formations, Spud, TENORM, unconventional wells, wastewater, well plugging
Posted on April 28, 2022
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Last night in Jefferson Hills Borough, Pennsylvania, Lisa Graves-Marcucci, Pennsylvania Coordinator of Community Outreach for the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), gave an informational presentation to the borough’s Environmental Advisory Council (EAC) regarding Act 14 notifications. These important Act 14 notifications, sent by certified or… Continue Reading “Pa. Act 14 Notifications and Local Communities”
Category: Pennsylvania Act 14Tags: Act 14 notifications, drilling permits, fracking, gas drilling, gas production, gas wells, legal notices, Marcellus Shale, MPC, municipality, PA DEP, township, well pad, well sites
Posted on April 26, 2022
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A well-written and researched story by Justin Nobel was published yesterday on DeSmog: ‘This Needs to Be Fixed’: Nuclear Expert Calls Radioactivity Levels Found Outside Ohio Oilfield Waste Facility ‘Excessive’. Justin’s MUST READ story is about a facility in Martins Ferry, Ohio, that processes… Continue Reading “The ‘Un-Natural Gas’ Radioactive Waste Stream”
Category: Marcellus shale, PennsylvaniaTags: drilling, fracking, gas patch, gas wells, GOP, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, landfills, LNG, Ohio, oil and gas, Ra226, Ra228, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, Radium 226, Radium 228, shale gas, Utah, Utica Shale, West Virginia
Posted on April 11, 2022
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(UPDATED: FULL REPORT AND APPENDICES LINKED BELOW) In the big push by GOP candidates in the US Senate and Pennsylvania gubernatorial races for an accelerated amount of drilling and fracking in our Keystone state, these candidates are ignoring an existing problem with fugitive methane… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania has a Methane Problem”
Category: methane, PennsylvaniaTags: Bill McSwain, Dave White, Diversified Gas and Oil, Dr Oz, gas wells, GHG, global warming, Joe Manchin, Josh Shapiro, Lou Barletta, methane, methane emissions, Washington County Pennsylvania
PIT Airport Doubling-Down on Fracked Gas
Posted on May 23, 2022 by bobscaping
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Reporter Anya Litvak’s May 21, 2022 story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ‘Airport authority brokers new deals with CNX to incentivize drilling and, possibly, make fuel from natural gas‘ revealed old and new information about the business dealings of the Allegheny County Airport Authority (ACAA)… Continue Reading “PIT Airport Doubling-Down on Fracked Gas”
Category: Pittsburgh International Airport - PITTags: ACAA, airport, Allegheny County Airport Authority, CNX Resources, cryogenic plant, drilling, fracking, gas lease, gas processing, gas wells, Marcellus Shale, PIT, Pittsburgh International Airport, public comments, shale gas, Southpointe, Utica Shale