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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.
regarding the energy company’s failure to fix a naturalgas leak that caused a house explosion in Greene County in 2018. Three occupants of the home, a couple and their four-year-old son, sustained severe burns after the house at 161 Bowser Road exploded and caught fire on October 31, 2018.
In 2018, frustration was so great with the lack of compliance with Energy Transfer/Sunoco on the Mariner East Pipeline Project that DEP imposed a total permit block on the company and Republican Sen. billion cubic feet of naturalgas from the Rager Mountain Gas Storage area in Cambria County; -- $1.1
As evidence of these diagnoses and conditions, the Latkanichs provided toxicology reports and a copy of his sons May 1, 2018 medical report. Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To NaturalGas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [September 2023] -- State Dept.
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.
Speakers from several public health, community advocacy and environmental groups will participate in a September 19 webinar -- A Year Later: Have Leaders Addressed Health Concerns From NaturalGas Development Raised In University Of Pittsburgh Public Health Studies? Shapiro's deal with naturalgas developer CNX Resources.
On June 7, the Better Path Coalition reported the Department of Environmental Protection has removed the co-product category from its waste disposal reporting database for conventional oil and gas well owners, according to documents the Coalition received in response to a Right-To-Know request. have gotten easier.
Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right to Know request shows DEP took major enforcement actions against 26 shale gas drilling and pipeline companies in 2023, including imposing $2,290,849 in penalties for violations going back to 2018.
3 train derailment at the Ohio-Pennsylvania border that released carloads of toxic chemicals, state officials have expressed far less concern about the largest naturalgas leak in state history. gas storage facility in Jackson Twp., Photo: Equitrans naturalgas leak from space, Environmental Defense Fund.)
We already know what the solid waste consists of and we know what the toxic and radioactive wastewater contains. We already know what is leaching out of landfills where fracking waste is dumped and what is ending up in our rivers where we source our drinking water. 28 to Nov. 4 PA Bulletin [PaEN] Related Articles Last Week: -- Gov.
Among the DEP Oil and Gas inspection reports this week was an April 3 inspection of the Buhl Farm 1 conventional oil well owned by Edward W. For nearly seven years-- since July 18, 2018 when the spills were first discovered-- DEP has been trying to work with Benko to get the multiple spills at the site cleaned up. Violations continued.
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.
LLC conventional well site known as Nancy 13 in Deerfield Township, Warren County found it to be still venting naturalgas to the atmosphere. [ LLC operates 149 conventional oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania. Notice of violations were issued for failure to file the well integrity and production and waste generation reports. [
The hearing also did not tackle the issue of why Pennsylvanians, sitting on top of one of the richest naturalgas reservoirs in the world, have been subjected to naturalgas cost increases of as much as 154 percent over the last year from utilities. Or, why a Susquehanna County Gas Company is proposing to raise rates 33.2
As the region's premier low carbon intensive naturalgas development, technology, and applications company, CNX is uniquely positioned to help revolutionize Appalachia, one of the world's most energy abundant regions, into an energy, manufacturing, and technology hub of the future. On December 12, CNX Resources Corp.
You can help DEP’s evaluation too by sending the problems you’ve had with conventional oil and gas drilling operations to DEP’s Oil & Gas Program email: ra-epoilandgas@pa.gov. Oil & Gas Drilling Is Not A Clean Business Do you believe drilling conventional oil and naturalgas wells is a clean business?
Energy Information Administration (EIA)-- -- NaturalGas: Pennsylvania’s marketed naturalgas production, primarily from the Marcellus Shale, reached a record 7.6 Why aren't naturalgas or nuclear or coal, why aren't they applying for new generation capacity? Read more here. ]
Daryl Metcalfe, Majority Chair of the House Environment Resources and Energy Committee, announced a September 20 “Wellhead to Stovetop - Conveying Energy in PA” hearing on naturalgas and pipelines in Pennsylvania. Receiving and processing gas at the surface. Sending the gas through pipelines. In a March hearing, Rep.
Shapiro made as Attorney General to advance commonsense measures that prioritize public health and safety and ensure the naturalgas industry is performing its work in line with the highest standards. The Governor's Office said the agreement helps further a promise Gov.
An October 13 DEP inspection of the construction site again found multiple violations of the state Clean Streams Law and Solid Waste Management Act. PGE will attempt to use new underground “micro-tunneling” technology for the naturalgas pipeline, down steep slopes on both sides of the Creek. Read more here. Read more here.
million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use naturalgas and hydrogen in their operations for at least 20 years. The bill also more than doubles the tax credit for using naturalgas to make petrochemicals or fertilizer from naturalgas. billion in state tax incentives.
A January 3 DEP inspection report shows Energy Transfer reported a nine and a half hour uncontrolled release of ethane and other vapors from its Revolution Cryogenic NaturalGas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County during a Christmas Day explosion and fire at the plant. on December 25 and ceased as of 4:59 p.m.
The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee will hold its second hearing May 1 on electric grid reliability and the failure of naturalgas and other generation to provide power when called on by PJM during Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here. Read more here ] Click Here to read more from February hearing.
Is this what we should expect from the naturalgas industrial infrastructure in Washington County and Pennsylvania? December 25 Christmas Morning Explosion Kasey Duran and her family live about 1,500 feet from the Energy Transfer Revolution Cryogenic NaturalGas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County.
Nearly 7 Year Struggle Continues To Cleanup Conventional Well Spills Among the DEP Oil and Gas inspection reports this week was an April 3 inspection of the Buhl Farm 1 conventional oil well owned by Edward W. Violations issued for abandonment and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports.
The fact Loyalsock Creek is classified by DEP as an exceptional value stream -- the best water quality that must be protected with no degradation; and was designated the 2018 Pennsylvania River of the Year by DCNR and called a “timeless treasure” in the middle of this fight, was not enough to protect the watershed. [The
The Department of Environmental Protection gave notice in the June 3 PA Bulletin it is taking action to enforce an order against Michael Harju and Economy NaturalGas, Inc. for their failure to plug four conventional naturalgas wells leaking methane in Scott Township, Allegheny County. Photo: Economy NaturalGas, Inc.:
LLC -- an Ohio-based company-- to plug the Nancy 13 conventional gas well in Deerfield Township, Warren County that was found to be leaking brine and gas since at least December 20, 2018 -- continues. PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec.
Learn how to protect yourself, your home, and your community from the dangers of oil and gas development at our Community Workshop: Living Near Shale Gas. This workshop covers oil and gas development topics, from extraction, production, transportation, and waste.
The DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council is scheduled to meet on May 25 to discuss a variety of issues including well plugging, proposed waste management regulations, methane emission court challenge, road dumping drilling wastewater and more.
PA Bulletin, page 213 ) According to Equitrans, CONSOL has plans to mine coal above and around the Equitrans Hunters Cave and Swarts NaturalGas Storage Fields over the next several decades. As a result, Equitrans will seek approval to transfer two existing horizontal naturalgas storage wells to CONSOL who will then abandon them.
The Department of Environmental Protection has received and is reviewing the Act 2 Land Recycling Final Report by Equitrans on the cleanup of soil around the conventional gas well that failed and resulted in the uncontrolled venting of 1.1 PA Bulletin, page 201 ) The report deals with the George Reade 1 conventional well. 30 to Jan.
The following factsheet on asthma and air pollution from naturalgas facilities was compiled by the Environmental Health Project -- Asthma is a chronic disease that affects breathing. more than 25 million people (7.9%), including six million children, have asthma (CDC, 2018). In the U.S.,
“One of your first acts when you take office must be a ban on road spreading of ALL drilling waste.” Pennfield has obtained a Co-Product status instead of Waste with our brine. Additionally, that same company routinely lists the same amount of waste spread for each of its entries in a county. Click Here to sign petition.
But the answer is not to waste public dollars to build expensive gas pipelines that will exacerbate climate change for decades. Natural” gas is a fossil fuel and was responsible in 2018 for the biggest spike in carbon emissions Ontario has seen in decades.
In a statement, Del-Cheso United said-- On the morning of September 16, a 20-inch naturalgas liquids pipeline operated by Energy Transfer exploded in a suburban neighborhood outside Houston Texas. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1
LLC to plug the Nancy 13 conventional gas well in Deerfield Township, Warren County that was found to be leaking brine and gas since at least December 20, 2018 -- continues. DEP’s eFACT database shows River Ridge Gravel Co has permits for 111 oil and gas wells. Read prior history here.] Photos: Row 1-- Tatonka Oil Co.
As multiple media outlets have reported, t his increase in energy prices was driven by the spike in oil and naturalgas prices on foreign energy markets that directly affect what the U.S. As Supply Crunch Concerns Mount -- NaturalGas Intel: LNG Demand Seen Driving NaturalGas Prices Higher This Summer, FERC Says -- Reuters: U.S.
On August 14, Attorney General Michelle Henry announced Greylock Production, LLC, a naturalgas energy production and delivery company, has pleaded no contest to multiple environmental violations stemming from the operation of several wells over a period of five years. The waste that spilled ended up in an unnamed tributary.
Vanora To PUC and Senate Bill 1237 (Baker-R-Luzerne) reauthorization of the PA One Call underground utility notification program [Almost all conventional naturalgas, oil gathering pipelines are still excluded]. Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee hearing on waste to fuels. Room G-50 Irvis Building.
. : Austin E Shale Gas Pad 1 Compressor: DEP issued a Air Quality General Permit (GP-5) for the compressor station located in Lenox Twp., PA Bulletin, page 6926 ) -- Waste Management-Tullytown Facility - Backup Enclosed Methane Flare: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval for the flare located at the landfill facility in Falls Twp.,
The studies found shale gas wells-- -- Can Make Asthma Worse: “We learned that there was a strong link between the production phase of unconventional naturalgas development and severe exacerbations, emergency department visits and hospitalizations for asthma in people living within 10 miles of one or more wells producing naturalgas.
the Department of Environmental Protection released the first-ever assessment of how well conventional oil and gas drillers comply with state environmental laws and concluded, “(the) conventional oil and gas industry’s recent record of compliance with Pennsylvania law is simply not good, particularly with regard to improper abandonment of wells.”
This conclusion came from adding up the emissions from coal used to power the production process, naturalgas-based fertilizer and diesel fuel used to farm and transport the corn and ethanol. 2030 California Renewable NaturalGas Outlook: Resource Assessment, Market Opportunities, And Environmental Performance.
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