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Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, airpollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
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Read more here ] The Office of Attorney General also brought about a 2021 settlement with Chesapeake Energy for payment of royalties to landowners with shale gas leases that involved $5.3 penalty and $5 million restitution from the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for airpollution violations; -- $1.4 Read more here.]
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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.
Hill also noted the company has been under investigation by the Office of Attorney General for possible state Solid Waste Management Act violations road dumping their wastewater under the co-product determination process in DEPs Residual Waste Regulations. Original violation issued April 19, 2021. Read more here.
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This educational session is part of Protect PT’s EPA funded study Clean Air For All: Knowledge is Power, which focuses on three local sources of airpollution in Westmoreland and Allegheny County. We are conducting these studies in response to ongoing resident concerns about how airpollution is impacting their health.
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In addition to this uptick in production, at the same time, we had a big increase in waste production. So actually about 98% of waste production from fracked wells is in the form of produced water. Where does this waste actually go? Are There Disproportionate Exposures From Waste? It has several different outlets.
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Owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Well owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Well owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Read more here. Well completed in 2011.
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23 Webinar On The Facility's Report Card -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Shell Petrochemical Plant Receives DEP Notice Of Violation For Exceeding Air Emission Limits In Nov., Click Here to watch online. Click Here for more on the agenda.)
Presumably the authors of this legislation did not mean that barbers or any of the 28 state “licensed professionals” could be the reviewers of permits covering airpollution, hazardous waste or stream channel crossings. Read more here. Read more here.
And also a disposing of the waste stream. They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, airpollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Then drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
Two of the top 10 EQIP practices by total dollar amount spent are practices we identified as industrial, providing little to no conservation benefits, in our previous report: waste facility cover and waste storage facility. Despite these protective measures, animal waste often escapes and contaminates local water.
Department of Environmental Protection in 2021. Neighbors Clifford Cole, Pamela West, Brian Weirback, Kathy Weirback, Todd Shelly, and Christine Shelly oppose the DEP permit, an air quality Plan Approval, which would allow Adelphia to emit hundreds of tons of airpollution into the community.
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On October 6, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the 13 schools, businesses and community organization winners of the 2021 Governor's Awards for Environmental Excellence. The center’s boiler water treatment system was replaced with newer technology, and new air compressors installed.
billion gallons of drilling wastewater generated every year in Pennsylvania-- where it does for disposal or recycling, waste injection well development, problems with the conventional and shale gas wastewater reporting system, road dumping of conventional drilling wastewater and much more. Click Here to read the entire article. 27 Released 1.1
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The inspection report added violations for failure to contain regulated substances and wastes in storage structures or tanks and failure to notify DEP of spills and releases of regulated substances. The report continued violations for failing to prevent contamination from discharging on the site. Timberline Energy Inc. 27 Released 1.1
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