Tag: shale gas
Posted on July 2, 2022
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Today’s Pennsylvania Bulletin includes an “Intent to Issue an Operating Permit under the Air Pollution Control Act” for the Welling Compressor Station at 165 Carlisle Road, Claysville, PA 15323. The Welling is one of the largest compressor stations in our county, one of over… Continue Reading “AIR POLLUTION: Welling Compressor Station in Washington County, PA”
Category: air quality, climate change, PennsylvaniaTags: asthma, benzene, Buffalo Township, Code Orange, compressor stations, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, fossil fuels, HAPs, methane, midstream, natural gas, NOx, ozone, Pennsylvania DEP, pipelines, PM10, shale gas, SOx, toluene, VOCs, Washington County, Welling Compressor Station, xylenes
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, Pennsylvania, radium, Radium 226, Radium 228, radon, shale gas
Posted on May 26, 2022
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Have you fallen victim to the oil and gas industry’s disinformation campaign? Have a listen to this new Podcast, or read the transcript, to find out for yourself: New Research: Big Fossil’s Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine“In the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,… Continue Reading “Oil and Gas Industry’s “Disaster Capitalism””
Category: climate change, fossil fuels, PennsylvaniaTags: API, climate policy, drilling, EarthWorks, frac sand, fracking, global warming, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, Marcellus Shale, methane, natural gas, Ohio, oil and gas, renewable energy, shale gas, Sharon Wilson, solar energy, Texas, Ukraine, US Chamber of Commerce, Utica Shale, West Virginia
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 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: electricity, PennsylvaniaTags: 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: climate change, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, water pollutionTags: acrylonitrile, air pollution, brominated trihalomethanes, BTEX, chloroform, 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 renewables, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, shale gas, tapwater, TENORM, trihalomethanes, VOC, water buffalo, water wells
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 16, 2022
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The Environmental Health Project has just released its White Paper, “Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect Public Health and What We Can Do to Correct It“ The Environmental Health Project recently presented its white paper at the Pennsylvania State Capitol… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom – How Policy Decisions Failed”
Category: PennsylvaniaTags: BTEX, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, drill rig, EHP, Environmental Health Project, formaldehyde, fracking, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, methane, public health, shale gas, Washington County, 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