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Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set more protective standards on the development of naturalgas than required in state or federal law and while a challenge to local restrictions is being litigated. Read more here.
On November 7, PA Republican Senators introduced Senate Bill 1346 that punishes local elected officials who want to better protect their constituents from the documented adverse health and environmental impacts of shale gas development. Read more here. In October 2022, Sen. Read more here. In October 2023, Sen. Read more here.
Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Constellation Energy Generation LLC - Eddystone Gas/Oil Power Plant: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit for the facility located in Eddystone Boro, Delaware County. ( Bradford County. ( Butler County. Received Dec. 13, Authorized Jan. Chester County. ( Bradford County. (
On June 14, House Bill 1467 was introduced to establish an Oil and NaturalGas Facility Health Impacts Assessment Program in the Department of Health. The Department of Health is required to establish an Oil and NaturalGas Production Health Registry to track public exposures and health impacts from oil and naturalgas facilities.
Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a naturalgas industry wish list of measures they want to expand naturalgas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.
On January 26, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Equitrans Midstream for abandoning and not plugging 19 conventional gas wells at the Swarts NaturalGas Storage Field in Greene County. Billion Cubic Feet Of NaturalGas In 2022 In November 2022, Equitrans Midstream Corp.
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.
Failed To Comply With Act 2 Cleanup Standards At The Greenzweig Shale Gas Wastewater Impoundment In Bradford County After 5 Years [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Is Leaving Behind: DEP Signs Consent Order With Roulette Oil & Gas To Plug Shale Gas Well Abandoned For 8 Years In Hebron Twp.,
Here are j ust a few examples of the penalties imposed by DEP against Big Shale Gas and related industries include-- -- $939,553 penalty against Chevron related to fatal gas well fire in Greene County; -- $1.1 billion cubic feet of naturalgas from the Rager Mountain Gas Storage area in Cambria County; -- $1.1
EQT Chap LLC - Violations: 3 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells (11 Months) March 3, 2025 inspection of the 3 shale gas wells on the Brunazzi Unit well pad (9H, 10H 11H) in Deemston Borough, Washington County found the wells abandoned and not plugged. Wells drilled in 2013. Original violations issued on April 17, 2024.
On January 20, the naturalgas industry and Senate Republicans launched an effort to unleash the industry by reducing regulations, requiring automatic approval of permits and limiting opportunities for public review of permits at a hearing of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Pittsburgh. Read more here. Read more here.
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. Drilled in 2013 but not produced. [ Inactive status expired on February 7, 2019.
18 -- Washington County Judge Rules Sunoco Pipeline Did Not Have Eminent Domain Authority To Take Property For Mariner East Pipelines In Landowner Lawsuit Alleging Fraud [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Leaves Behind: DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co.
On August 23, the PJM Interconnection Critical Issue Fast Path Resource Adequacy stakeholder group heard testimony and suggestions on the issue of making electricity market changes to address nonperformance of naturalgas and other generators during emergencies and events like Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here.
PGE will attempt to use new underground “micro-tunneling” technology for the naturalgas pipeline, down steep slopes on both sides the Creek. miles up steep slopes up to a third leased tract on state forest land on the south side of the Creek. The freshwater pipeline will be constructed aboveground.
The share of online transactions among total US sales grew from just under six percent in 2013 to around 15 percent in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s Annual Retail Trade Survey.
Dernbach said that Pennsylvania’s courts did not take the environmental rights amendment seriously until 2013, when they invalidated parts of a state law that encouraged oil and gas development. NextEra operates a naturalgas plant and several solar facilities in Maine, while Calpine and Vistra run naturalgas plants in the state.
EQT Chap LLC - Violations: 3 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells (11 Months) March 3, 2025 inspection of the 3 shale gas wells on the Brunazzi Unit well pad (9H, 10H 11H) in Deemston Borough, Washington County found the wells abandoned and not plugged. Wells drilled in 2013. Original violations issued on April 17, 2024.
On February 11, CNX Resources CEO Nicholas Deluliis told DEPs Citizens Advisory Council a year and a half of air and water monitoring shows no material impact to air or water quality from their naturalgas development operations. Deluliis did a presentation to the Council on Radical Transparency, a program CNX launched with Gov.
Reliability Resource Initiative (RRI) proposal to fast track naturalgas power plants at the exclusion of renewable and other clean energy projects, leaving them stuck in the permitting queue. On February 12, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the PJM Interconnection, Inc.s
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 2013 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc.: Tioga County. (
. - R.Bushnell Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP approved a Final Report on the remediation of soil contaminated with oil-based mud mixed with diesel fuel to meet the Statewide Health and Background Standards at the pad located in Springville Twp., Susquehanna County. ( PA Bulletin, page.2006 Montour County. ( PA Bulletin, page.1965 Washington County.
The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility are proud to co-host the 2025 Shale Gas and Public Health Conference on February 27 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
The conventional well, owned by Kriebel NaturalGas Co., Kriebel NaturalGas holds 1,681 permits. Drilled in 2013 but not produced. [ Five other companies were also cited for the same violation: Ows Energy, LLC, PPG Oper LLC, Baker Gas Inc., LLC, exploded and caught fire shortly before 1:00 p.m.
School Campus Could Save $10 Million -- Scranton Times: Renewable NaturalGas Plant Operator At Keystone Landfill Begins Test Drilling For Underground Carbon Dioxide Storage -- Protecting Clean Water Together: Starting To Think About The Garden? Of Environmental Professionals Inviting Presentation Proposals For Annual Conference Sept.
18 -- Washington County Judge Rules Sunoco Pipeline Did Not Have Eminent Domain Authority To Take Property For Mariner East Pipelines In Landowner Lawsuit Alleging Fraud [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Leaves Behind: DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co. Noon and 7:00 p.m.
From June 24 to 30, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 435 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 23 violations of environmental regulations-- 8 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 15 violations by the unconventional shale naturalgas industry.
Failed To Comply With Act 2 Cleanup Standards At The Greenzweig Shale Gas Wastewater Impoundment In Bradford County After 5 Years [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Is Leaving Behind: DEP Signs Consent Order With Roulette Oil & Gas To Plug Shale Gas Well Abandoned For 8 Years In Hebron Twp.,
All the wells were drilled in the first rush of shale gas drilling before 2013 The violations were issued for these wells-- -- Fayette County Henry Clay Twp.: W.Smith 1 - Abandoned and leaking gas since Sept. Almost all are repeat offenses where Diversified has failed to correct violations for more than three and a half years.
a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi, PetroChina and Kogas): 2013 – 2021 Shell Canada Ltd.: 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: Susannah Pierce also has a track record of aggressively promoting the liquified naturalgas (LNG) industry. As always, the format is satirical but the information is real.
Note: One of the three studies was DEP’s 2013/2016 TENORM study of naturally occurring radioactive material in oil and gas wastewater, drill cuttings and naturalgas itself completed with the help of Perma-Fix Environmental Services.] All three reports support our findings.” 1 Monthly Eyes On Shell Meeting.
Meaningful Air Monitoring Results Difficult DEP’s Bureau of Air Quality did regional air quality sampling around shale gas facilities between 2010 and 2013 in Southwest, Northcentral and Northeast parts of the state. CNX installed two Particulate Matter 2.5 Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.
Read more here ; -- Conventional Oil & Gas Compliance Report issued in December. Read more here ; -- Status of updating conventional drilling regulations; and -- Naturalgas industry effort to reform permitting, limit public comments. The Council will be discussing their comments on the 2013-2018 report at this meeting.
He went on to serve as the SRBCs Executive Director from 1992-2013. Paul also utilized SRBCs enforcement powers more aggressively, especially with respect to water use for naturalgas development that began in the basin in 2008.
Joseph also unlawfully burned debris such as wooden mats from the oil and gas operations on his property. The majority of the drill cuttings were dumped at sites owned or controlled by Joseph, while some ended up at sites where he had contracts to provide fill material.
From April 15 to 21, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 465 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 50 violations of environmental regulations-- 46 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 4 violations by the unconventional shale naturalgas industry.
million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2
the Department of Environmental Protection told me from 2013 through 2017, 276,416 tons of oil-field waste were disposed. 15-16 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference [PaEN] -- PA Assn. 15-16 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference [PaEN] -- PA Assn. 15-16 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference [PaEN] -- PA Assn.
Failed To Comply With Act 2 Cleanup Standards At The Greenzweig Shale Gas Wastewater Impoundment In Bradford County After 5 Years [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Is Leaving Behind: DEP Signs Consent Order With Roulette Oil & Gas To Plug Shale Gas Well Abandoned For 8 Years In Hebron Twp.,
Resource Link: -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Announces Award Of $155,000+ To Support 34 Local Watershed Improvement Projects [PaEN] Related Articles: -- DEP, Attorney General Announce $14,866,280 In Grants To Fund 79 Local Water Quality Improvement Projects Funded By Growing Greener, NaturalGas Pipeline Penalties [PaEN] -- PA American Water (..)
Failed To Comply With Act 2 Cleanup Standards At The Greenzweig Shale Gas Wastewater Impoundment In Bradford County After 5 Years [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Is Leaving Behind: DEP Signs Consent Order With Roulette Oil & Gas To Plug Shale Gas Well Abandoned For 8 Years In Hebron Twp.,
All three reports support our findings,” including DEP’s 2013/2016 TENORM study of naturally occurring radioactive material in oil and gas wastewater, drill cuttings and naturalgas itself completed with the help of Perma-Fix Environmental Services. Click Here for the full response from Dr. Burgos. 28 to Feb.
Under the guise of “self-help” proposals, Republican Senators Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and Joe Pittman (R-Indiana) said DCNR should lease at least 22,000 acres of State Forest land for more naturalgas drilling and allow the mining of 920 acres of coal under Yellow Creek State Park in Indiana County to help pay for needed infrastructure improvements.
Other witnesses said expanding renewable energy would reduce energy costs, avoid increasing over-reliance on naturalgas and its price spikes, improve electric grid reliability, is needed to keep Pennsylvania competitive and generate business investment and jobs. The cost of doing nothing grows larger every single day.”
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