Tag: Pennsylvania
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 16, 2022
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Pennsylvania is on track to fully participate in ‘Reggie’ if GOP lawsuits, or the November 8, 2022 gubernatorial election, doesn’t derail the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. “This regulation has the support of businesses and residents, and will save lives… Continue Reading “2021 RGGI Annual Report”
Category: air qualityTags: 2022 election, air pollution, asthma, asthmatic children, carbon, carbon dioxide, climate change, CO2, COPD, environmental justice, health threat, Monongahela River Valley, nitrogen oxides, PA DEP, particulate matter, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania governor, Pittsburgh, PM, public health, Reggie, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, RGGI, senior citizens, sulfur dioxide, Three Rivers
Posted on May 13, 2022
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The story ‘Preparing for Petrochemicals‘ by Rick Mullin appeared on Chemical & Engineering News (c&en) on May 9th. The author took a balanced approach to what this massive Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex (aka ‘cracker plant’) will mean to Beaver County and the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania tri-state… Continue Reading “Frackin’ & Crackin’ Plastic This Summer”
Category: plasticTags: air pollution, BCMAC, Beaver County, Breathe Project, drilling, ethane, exports, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, manufacturing, Marcellus Shale, Monaca, nurdles, Ohio River Valley, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, pipelines, plastic, SHELL
Posted on May 8, 2022
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How wet was it Friday in western Pennsylvania? Just ask Dr. Oz… it was too wet for ducks!!! Yet even on a rain-soaked Pennsylvania day like that, our solar panels were still producing solar energy. Maybe not the 50 kWh they would on a… Continue Reading “Rainy Day Still Produces Solar Energy”
Category: solar energyTags: Conor Lamb, Dave McCormick, Dr Oz, John Fetterman, Malcolm Kenyatta, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania renewables, renewable energy, renewables, solar panels, US Senate
Posted on May 6, 2022
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We watched Part One last night, and thought it was well done. As they point out, this event happened just 12-days after THE CHINA SYNDROME was released in movie theaters. What timing! Checking the PJM Interconnect webpage this morning we see NUCLEAR energy is… Continue Reading “Netflix Docu-series Revisits Three Mile Island”
Category: electricityTags: coal, commodities, electric grid, energy generation, fossil fuels, gas, gas prices, grid, Netflix, nuclear energy, Pennsylvania, PJM Interconnect, price spikes, renewable energy, renewables, shale gas, solar energy, Three Mile Island, utilities
Posted on May 5, 2022
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In addition to a tornado warning —that had us eating supper in our basement at 6:00PM Tuesday evening— the third segment of this PBS Frontline documentary aired later that same evening. I recognized a couple powerful allies in the oil & gas air pollution… Continue Reading “‘The Power of Big Oil: Part 3 – Delay’”
Category: water pollutionTags: acrylonitrile, air pollution, brominated trihalomethanes, BTEX, chloroform, climate change, drilling, drilling waste, FLIR, fracking, global warming, Hickory Pa, Marcellus Shale, methane, Monongahela River, Mt Pleasant Township, natural gas, NORM, NOx, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania renewables, Pittsburgh, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, shale gas, tapwater, TENORM, trihalomethanes, VOC, water buffalo, water wells
Posted on May 2, 2022
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Robert Donnan ©2009 Enter the darkness, in the ground,Frack it, attack it, damn that sound!Gas to be drilled, big money found,Spewing secret chemicals all around. Steal the water, from the fish,Pump it, pipe it, spot the dish.Secret formula? Aw tish-tish,Resolve it later, don’t we wish! Will… Continue Reading “All Hail Marcellus Shale”
Category: Marcellus shaleTags: drilling, frac chemicals, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, methane gas, Ohio, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, proprietary frac fluids, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, Radium 226, Radium 228, West Virginia
Posted on May 1, 2022
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On April 28, the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Concerned Health Professionals of New York released their Eighth Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking and Associated Gas and Oil Infrastructure. The Compendium is a collection of… Continue Reading “Risks and Harms of Fracking and Oil and Gas Infrastructure”
Category: Fracking Health RisksTags: air pollution, drilling, ethane, frac, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, Marcellus Shale, methane, methane gas, natural gas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, Radium 226, Radium 228, Utica Shale, wastewater, water pollution, well pad, West Virginia
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 13, 2022
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Yesterday’s Zoom presentation by that same title was quite alarming, especially for those of us living in Pennsylvania, where Diversified Energy now owns over 22,000 oil and gas wells. Diversified actually owns more wells in the United States than Exxon, or any other oil… Continue Reading ““DIVERSIFIED ENERGY: Business Model Built to Fail Appalachia””
Category: PennsylvaniaTags: climate change, conventional wells, Diversified Energy, GHG, global warming, greenhouse gas, Kathy Hipple, London Stock Exchange, LSE, methane, methane emissions, Ohio, Ohio River Valley Institute, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, stripper wells, Ted Boettner, Tony Ingraffea, unconventional wells, 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
Posted on April 4, 2022
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You really need this sort of birds eye view to fully realize the widespread oil and gas development that’s taken place in western Pennsylvania since 2004, when the first Marcellus Shale gas well was drilled in Westland, Mount Pleasant Township, Pennsylvania, followed by more… Continue Reading “Birds Eye View of Pennsylvania Gas Production”
Category: Marcellus shaleTags: cryogenic gas plant, drilling, ethane, gas liquids, gas production, Hickory Pa, McDonald Pa, methane, methane gas, Pennsylvania, propane, Smith Township, Washington County
Posted on March 31, 2022
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There’s been some squawking lately about the prospect of some proposed, large scale solar farms, eating up too much farm land in Pennsylvania. One article made reference to one-percent of the farm land in Lawrence County, Pa as being a large amount for a… Continue Reading “Marcellus Shale Land Grab”
Posted on March 21, 2022
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While the Department of Defense and others ‘in the know’ call for greater security from renewables, it’s the oil and gas industry trying to spin it the opposite way. “The world is changing, and we at the Department of Defense can’t afford to stand… Continue Reading “Energy Security”
Posted on March 19, 2022
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DTV has been detected in a total of 15 Pennsylvania counties Last year was the first time I found a deer tick embedded in my skin. Talk about raising your awareness level! Fortunately, I found it early on, and tested negative for Lyme disease.… Continue Reading “Dangerous Deer Tick Virus”