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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.
The conventional well, owned by Kriebel NaturalGas Co., Kriebel NaturalGas holds 1,681 permits. Kriebel NaturalGas holds 1,681 permits. Other violations include leaking gas and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. DEP inspection report Part 1.
The Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy Policy and Management in Washington County will host a free March 8 webinar on renewable naturalgas as part of its Energy Lecture Series. Renewable NaturalGas: Sustainable Energy from Trash” will be the subject of a free, hour-long webinar at 11:00 a.m.
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
DEP also issued seven more notices of violations to two more shale gas drillers-- Blackhill Energy LLC and EQT ARO LLC-- for abandoning wells they own, bringing the total for 2025 to 39-- closing in on as many violations as were issued in all of 2024-- 47. Leechburg Gas holds 16 permits. -- Charles E. Violations continued.
Bob Donnan Bob Donnan, a resident of Peters Township, Washington County, has been active on shale gas drilling issues since 2009 when the industry was dumping fracking waste into the Monongahela River, his drinking water source. Click Here for a copy of the presentation slides.
Dietterich - Violations - 3 Abandoned Wells November 25, 2024 follow-up inspections of three conventional wells in Allegheny and Washington counties found them all abandoned and not plugged and with violations for failure to submit production, waste generation, well integrity reports. Wells drilled in 2009 and 2008. Decrease To 31.2%
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.
Conventional Gas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Williams/Laurel Mountain Midstream, LLM On Monday, March 17, 2025 at approximately 5:30 p.m., Owner failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Gas leak was repaired, but violations continued. Read more here. Read more here. No response requested.
Original violations issued October 18, 2022 for abandonment, failing to obtain a bond, failure to submit production, waste generation and mechanical integrity reports. Well was drilled in 2009. Request response by January 28. Suchko holds 3 conventional well and one pipeline permit. DEP inspection report. DEP inspection report.
From 2009 through March 2024, the average retail price of electricity leapt by $3.21 per kilowatt hour in Pennsylvania as the state’s share of naturalgas increased by 16%. 16 In-Person Program In Waynesburg, Greene County On Protecting Public Health, Resources From Shale Gas Development [PaEN] -- Sen. 28 to Oct.
Here are the details-- On September 25 - 26, 2024 , DEP inspected three shale gas wells owned by Diversified Prod LLC in Fayette and Westmoreland counties in response to requests for well transfers to Big Dog Energy and found two wells continue to be abandoned and not plugged the third with other violations. Well was drilled in 2009.
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.
Between 2009 and 2021, daily withdrawals of water in the state decreased by 33%, mostly because of coal-fired power plants closing. Withdrawals are used for drinking water, power generation, industry, fracking for naturalgas, irrigation, watering livestock and wastewater treatment.
During last years report, Kurt Klapkowski, DEP Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, also highlighted the complexity of these investigations especially in areas with underground coal mining, naturalgas pipelines, gas storage areas and thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells.
She also assisted with the conversion of the recycling collection vehicles to renewable naturalgas. During Joanne’s tenure, the Authority was awarded the 2009 Best Local Government Program by the National Recycling Coalition. Posted: February 19, 2024] PA Environment Digest
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. Receiving and processing gas at the surface. Sending the gas through pipelines. And also a disposing of the waste stream. We founded the Environmental Health Institute in 2007.
“The Department has determined that activities associated with your [Greylock’s] oil and gas activities, specifically the leak at the Mohr impoundment, has resulted in pollution of a private water supply.” There were two shale gas wells on Mohr B drilled in March of 2009 and May of 2011.
DEP inspection report ] On November 8, 2023 , DEP did a followup inspection of the Brown 4 conventional gas well operated by Randy A. Dietterich in Robinson Township, Washington County and found the well continues to vent naturalgas that is a “hazard to the public health and safety” and continues to be abandoned without being plugged.
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. Coterra entered a plea to Prohibition Against Discharge of Industrial Wastes, a violation of the Clean Streams Law.
Gray in Peasant Township, Warren County in response to a citizen complaint about stray gas contaminating a private water supply. The inspections identified 13 conventional wells that were abandoned and not plugged, where the owner failed to submit well integrity, production and waste generation reports. National- $3.58 National- $3.58
The numbers for this year’s edition are quite impressive: Nuclear is the most expensive per MWh: $148 (+20% since 2009). Naturalgas is at $60. But utility-scale solar PV is at $50 (-72% since 2009) and wind reaches $45 (-47%). a glut of naturalgas, 2. Then comes coal, with $102.
29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included Health Department Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Pennsylvanians Near State’s Four Active Nuclear Power Plants Sept. Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Million In Energy Savings; 14.6% Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Million In Energy Savings; 14.6%
Here are 59 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Million In Energy Savings; 14.6% 12 to Nov.
The Regulation sets a deadline on the operation of final disposal facilities for radioactive waste. For existing nuclear nations, appropriate plans for waste management already exist because they are required by relevant EU law and international guidance. The use of gaseous fossil fuels has not been restricted by an expiration date.
Owner also failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Myers Gas - Violations: Abandoned, Unplugged Conventional Well February 24, 2025 inspection of the Danner 3 conventional well in Victory Township, Venango County found the well abandoned and unplugged. Violations issued. Response requested by April 7.
The wells were drilled in the first waves of shale gas development in 2007 and 2012. Other violations included failure to have emergency plans onsite, failure to submit production, wastes generation and disposal and well integrity reports. Violations were issued -- Dunkard Twp.:
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.
DEP also issued violations for failing to submit production and waste generation and well integrity reports. On December 1, 2023 , DEP inspected the Charter 502-2 conventional well in Scott Township, Allegheny County operated by Economy NaturalGas, Inc. billion cubic feet of naturalgas in November 2022.
Residents of Dimock, Susquehanna County and eight major environmental and advocacy organizations will hold a Stand With Dimock Day on August 16 to call attention to the fact that water supplies contaminated by shale gas development in 2009 have still not been replaced.
She points out that billions were spent over two decades to evaluate Yucca Mountain as a site for nuclear waste disposal before the proposal failed. In Pennsylvania’s older oil-and-gas fields, many drill holes exist that can constitute a leakage pathway for reservoir gases, including injected CO2. That means more injection wells.
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.
My work began when my daughter was born in 2009. My children began to experience negative health impacts from the oil and gas industry. This allows fracking waste labeled as residual waste to be disposed of in municipal landfills. Municipal landfills from toxic radioactive fracking waste.
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.
On September 18, 2023 , DEP did a follow up inspection of the DR02 shale gas well pad and impoundment operated by Nucomer Energy LLC in Hickory Township, Forest County and found it in the same condition it was on July 8, 2022. DEP’s inspection report said the well was drilled in 2009 and has not been produced to date. Read more here.
“So in an article I read recently from the New Yorker, it said the DOH [Department of Health] confirmed that this study would look at correlations between illnesses and their proximity to oil and gas infrastructure, but would not directly examine the dangers of radioactive waste. Why in the hell not? Seriously, why isn't that included?
Wikipedia states that he held the “first congressional hearings on the climate change, and co-sponsor[ed] hearings on toxic waste and global warming.” Found on wikipedia, this is a 2009 figure so to-date numbers would be much much higher…). ” in 1976 !! For this, I believe Al Gore is an environmental hero.
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. Numbers have been updated with current figures. Current situation. A moral imperative. while GDP grew too.
-- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb. Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, NaturalGas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Rural Communities On The Front Lines Of Solar's Growth -- Sen.
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.
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.
Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. 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 is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. 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).
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