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Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
million gallons of toxic, radioactive drilling waste on unpaved roads in the Commonwealth. Feridun’s attempt to use the Oil and Gas Division’s Oil and Gas Reporting Electronic (OGRE) system to track where the waste has gone revealed many problems with the system’s design and entries that should set off alarms but don’t.
DEP’s eFACTS database file for the Mohr A and B well pads includes DEP approvals for “alternative waste management practices” for land application of drilling waste on the Mohr A and B well pad site dated April, May and October 2011 which match the drilling dates of seven out of the eight wells. Read more here. Read more here.
It found that greenhouse-gas emissions emitted by the lab in 2018 was 223 800 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent. Leading by example: going green in the lab. He also says that the lab has decreased its energy consumption by 20% while at the same time boosting the performance of the synchrotron via a recent upgrade.
On April 5, township supervisors, concerned residents, and advocacy organizations submitted a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection calling on the agency to conduct a proper Public Participation Process for an oil and gas waste injection disposal well in Potter County. Some listings include links to permit applications.
Hess, Former Secretary Department of Environmental Protection The information submitted to DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management from eight conventional oil and gas companies to justify allowing them to dispose of millions of gallons of wastewater by spreading it on dirt roads fails to meet the requirements of DEP’s 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8
He pointed out there are a number of entities “moving through the co-product determination process in DEP’s Waste Management Program that allows road dumping under the Residual Waste Regulations. But, so far none of those entities have met the requirements of DEP’s Residual Waste co-product determination process. Read more here.
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regarding the energy company’s failure to fix a natural gas 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. Read more here. Read more here.
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2018) determined that between 2008 and 2014, spreading OGPW on roads in Pennsylvania released 4-times more radium than centralized treatment facilities and potentially 200-times more than accidental spill events.” Operators reported road dumping a total of 3,259,405 gallons of their wastewater from 2018 through 2021. Read more here.
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That was the provocative question posed by David Coley, a physicist at the University of Bath , UK, to an audience at the headquarters of the Institute of Physics (IOP) shortly before it relocated to its environmentally sound premises at King’s Cross, London, in 2018. CO 2 storage is not like that.”. But industrial negligence does happen.
He pointed to a series of medical visits and diagnoses medical professionals called, hydraulic fracking/volatile hydrocarbon exposure, respiratory irritation from hydrocarbon exposure, neurotoxicity, and radiation exposure.
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The groups got a printout from DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database showing between February 21, 2018 and March 11, 2022 showing 601 instances of non-compliance (unique Violation IDs) reported for 13 unique DEP permits (unique Site Names) associated with Olympus as the Operator. Read more here. Read more here. 30 to Jan.
million from ETC Northeast Pipeline for the 2018 explosion of the Revolution Pipeline in Beaver County that was deposited into the Fund supporting the Oil and Gas Management Program. Also on the EQB agenda is a fee report for Radiation Protection Programs. Read more here.] Read more here.]
Decommissioning of both units will require the disposal of both high level and low-level radioactive waste and the safe, permanent storage of the nuclear fuel used by both units that is still on Three Mile Island. Our information from the radiation protection staff on the island indicated otherwise. Read more here. Read more here.
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Decommissioning of both units will require the disposal of both high level and low-level radioactive waste and the safe, permanent storage of the nuclear fuel used by both units that is still on Three Mile Island. Our information from the radiation protection staff on the island indicated otherwise. Read more here. Read more here.
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Figure 2: Source breakdown and impact overview of black carbon from the climate and clean air coalition (Climate & Clean Air Coalition 2018). Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 56 (6): 709–42. Compounds that can absorb energy are important because they alter the radiative balance of our Earth’s atmosphere.
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The requirements in the bill cover oil and natural gas facilities, including wells, pipelines, pumping stations, compressor stations, power plants, natural gas processing plants or plants processing waste streams from oil and gas operations. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Of Health Awards $2.5
Read more here. -- Radiation Levels In Storage Tank Prompt Decontamination: On June 28, DEP inspected the Sensinger shale gas well pad operated by Chesapeake Appalachia LLC in Franklin Township, Bradford County in response to a notification that over 800 gallons of production wastewater was released over a 10 day period on the well pad.
DEP’s inspection report also includes violations for failure to submit production and waste generation and well integrity reports. The original spill violations were issued on July 18, 2018-- nearly 6 years ago-- with no action by the well owner. The original violation for venting was issued on February 26, 2024.
“I had a certain expectation that my water wouldn't be damaged, my house wouldn't be damaged, that this gross negligence wouldn't go on, that they wouldn't get fines from the DEP, that I wouldn't be exposed to radiation, I wouldn't be exposed to chemicals,” said Latkanich. I didn't want that,” said Latkanich. “So So I suffer with the pain.
And no one should be surprised when workers and residents who are exposed to fracking’s toxic chemicals and radioactive waste start getting sick with a variety of sometimes common, sometimes weird, and sometimes, often debilitating and deadly illnesses. Doctors, nurses, and other health professionals aren't surprised.
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