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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: LNGTags: Britain, commodity prices, drilling, Europe, exports, fracking, gas wells, heat wave, hydraulic fracturing, Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG, Marcellus Shale, natural gas, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, 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: LNGTags: Cove Point, drilling, Europe, exports, fracking, gas wells, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, Marcellus Shale, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, 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 2014 for Deer Lakes Park, to allow hydraulic fracturing under the… Continue Reading “‘Protect Our Parks’ in Allegheny County, PA”
Category: Allegheny County PATags: Deer Lakes Park, drilling, fracking, gas lease, gas wells, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, methane, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, 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 RisksTags: 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, Pennsylvania, 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 shaleTags: 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, 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: 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, Pennsylvania, 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 shaleTags: drilling, fracking, gas patch, gas wells, GOP, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, landfills, LNG, Ohio, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, 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: methaneTags: Bill McSwain, Dave White, Diversified Gas and Oil, Dr Oz, gas wells, GHG, global warming, Joe Manchin, Josh Shapiro, Lou Barletta, methane, methane emissions, Pennsylvania, 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