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 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