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One way to better understand the impact the oil and gas industry has on the daily lives of Pennsylvanians is to read Oil and Gas Program inspection reports to see the kinds of violations DEP uncovers every day, week in and week out, as they inspect oil and gas wells and gas infrastructure across the state.
Read through the list of articles below announcing criminal convictions and related actions to better understand the criminal charges brought against Big Shale Gas in Pennsylvania. DEP Penalties From 2009 to this year, the Department of Environmental Protection was involved in penalty settlements totaling over $129.7
By Cat (Cathy) Lodge, Washington County Resident My family’s home is in Washington County and we have more Marcellus and Utica Shale naturalgas industrial facilities than any other county in Pennsylvania. Counties across the state have witnessed harm from the heavy industrial activity associated with naturalgas exploration.
PA Bulletin, page 2006 ) Waste Permits -- PennEnergy Resources, LLC - W58 Tank Pad: Permit application withdrawn for the installation of 1 tank for oil and gas liquid waste under WMGR123 in Winfield Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2010 ) -- National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. PA Bulletin, page 2010 ) -- National Fuel Gas Supply Corp.
So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. We find in our studies that as somebody's value of their unconventional naturalgas development activity metric goes up, the risk or severity of the health outcome goes up.
Over the past 20 years, hydraulic fracturing has become the most popular method of extracting naturalgas and. While fracking has benefits such as increasing the availability of oil and naturalgas which in turn leads to a decrease in energy. degradation. . particularly. malfunction.
This contamination led to multiple Dimock residents suffering from impacts to their own personal water supplies, including the explosion of Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well in January 2009.
Local airpollution (and global climate change) ; 4. — Ditching coal and naturalgas for solar and wind. Source: Bloomberg ) as their prices dropped in the past decade, making them already more than competitive with coal and naturalgas. Crumbling infrastructure in the US ; 2. per watt in 2008 to $3.36/watt
fracking) to extract naturalgas from shale rock formations deep within the earth has raised many public health and environmental issues in the past few years. These issues range from potential water contamination, airpollution, noise, dust, truck traffic, groundwater spills, methane emission leaks, and even earthquakes.
The last time DEP inspected the wells on the Warrant 566 tract was on February 11, 2009 when violations were found, but immediately corrected, according to DEP’s Oil & Gas Compliance Database [inspection reports not online]. PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov.
Sandra Steingraber, Senior Scientist with the Science and Environmental Health Network , provided an overview of findings from the newly published 9th Compendium of Scientific, Medical, Media Findings Demonstrating Risk, Harms of NaturalGas Development and Infrastructure during a briefing hosted by the Better Path Coalition.
Several provisions – a few of which are directly available to local governments – can additionally help address local airpollution and other inequitable impacts to vulnerable communities. States, Indian tribes, and airpollution control agencies are also eligible for funding. Second, $11.97
[Note: Residents of Dimock Township have been waiting for reliable, permanent replacement water for their well water contaminated by shale gas fracking more than 20 years ago in the largest groundwater contamination event caused by shale gas development in Pennsylvania history.
On December 1, 2023 , DEP inspected the Charter 502-2 conventional well in Scott Township, Allegheny County operated by Economy NaturalGas, Inc. DEP issued or continued 508 notices of violation for abandoning conventional oil and gas wells without plugging them so far in 2023. billion cubic feet of naturalgas in November 2022.
We know that, for children living, and pregnant mothers living close by well pads or other naturalgas facilities, that they suffer tremendous amount of health impacts, from birth defects, to lower birth weight, to exposure to cancer-causing VOCs and other toxins; it's a problem. Health exposures can also occur from spills or leaks.
My work began when my daughter was born in 2009. My children began to experience negative health impacts from the oil and gas industry. Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To NaturalGas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [September 2023] -- State Dept.
Based on these assurances and promises to “take all steps necessary to abate and remediate” any harms they did cause, Bryan Latkanich signed a gas lease agreement with Chevron on December 7, 2009. Then they came back with a new offer saying they found 40 to 60 times more naturalgas on his farm.
Both the United States and the European Union electricity generations have 25-30% coal (historically much higher, hence its title of King), naturalgas 35%, nuclear 20-25% and renewables make up 15% on both markets. It is worth remember that overall, airpollution accounts for 7 million deaths per year (WHO).
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Renewables contributed to electricity prices rising six times more in California than in the rest of the US since 2011, the state’s “take-off” year for rapid growth in wind and solar, a price rise that occurred despite the state’s reliance during the same years on persistently-low-priced naturalgas. Today, the US uses just 0.5
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on naturalgas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. See my colleague Mike Jacobs’ recent blog for more on LNG exports.) .
Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, NaturalGas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With NaturalGas Fracking -- EPA Honors Energy-Efficient Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.
Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta SOMO PaulaR Fri, 03/01/2024 - 15:21 Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Read more Audrey Gaughran Shell cannot be allowed to divest from the onshore oil industry in the Niger Delta before it takes responsibility for its toxic legacy of pollution and the safe decommissioning of abandoned oil infrastructure.
Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied NaturalGas, Lubricants, Naturalgas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.
Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied NaturalGas, Lubricants, Naturalgas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.
Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).
Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).
Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied NaturalGas, Lubricants, Naturalgas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.
Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).
Section 111 of the Clean Air Act authorizes EPA to address airpollution from both new and existing sources if the pollutant endangers public health or welfare. EPA ) held that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses meet the definition of an airpollutant under the Clean Air Act. The West Virginia v.
In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009.
Section 111 requires EPA to establish standards of performance for certain categories of stationary sources that “cause[ ], or contribute[] significantly to, airpollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.” In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. Court of Appeals, D.C.
When one of our neighbors here — in our naturalgas burning neighborhood — burns wood, everyone's like, “What are you doing? There was a renewables claim where a person claimed that solar and wind only require three to five times more land than naturalgas or nuclear plants. And, and I appreciate it! I don't want smoke!
Unleashing American Energy -- Reconsideration of regulations on power plants (Clean Power Plan 2.0) -- Reconsideration of regulations throttling the oil and gas industry (OOOO b/c) [Rule Reducing Methane Emissions] -- Reconsideration of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that improperly targeted coal-fired power plants (MATS) -- Reconsideration of mandatory (..)
Unleashing American Energy -- Reconsideration of regulations on power plants (Clean Power Plan 2.0) -- Reconsideration of regulations throttling the oil and gas industry (OOOO b/c) [Rule Reducing Methane Emissions] -- Reconsideration of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that improperly targeted coal-fired power plants (MATS) -- Reconsideration of mandatory (..)
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