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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.
Williams/Laurel Mountain Midstream, LLM notified DEP of a rupture in the Patterson to Anden six-inch naturalgas gathering pipeline near Todd Farm Road on the Manack farm in Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County. Williams/Laurel Mountain said the underground pipeline served conventional gas wells in the area.
Absorbent material and booms were in place along a path of brown staining from the release to help cleanup the waste and preventing it from traveling any further. DEP also detected naturalgas and crude oil odors at the site. Multiple violations were issued by DEP. A response to the violations was requested by May 13.
rate increase by Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania Inc. allowing for a formal investigation into the companys request to increase naturalgas rates for approximately 445,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in 26 counties across its Pennsylvania service territory. million (12.0%).
Shell Petrochemical Plant Penalties In May 2023, the Shell Petrochemical Plant served by the pipeline signed a consent order that included over $17 million in penalties to resolve airpollution violations-- over $12.6 million in penalty payments and $5 million in local community environmental restoration funding. Read more here.
The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the May 3 PA Bulletin it received an Air Quality Plan Approval application on April 4 for a 4.6 gigawatt naturalgas-fired power plant from Homer City Generation, LLC to be located in Center Township, Indiana County. ( Read more here.
This testimony was presented by Sarah Martik , Executive Director of the Center for Coalfield Justice based in Washington County, at a March 11 hearing by the DEP Office of Environmental Justice on an Air Quality Permit for the expansion of the MarkWest Energy's Harmon Creek NaturalGas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County.
Busik Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP approved a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with diesel to meet the Statewide Health Standards at the pad located in Dimock Twp., Waste Permits -- Range Resources-Appalachia, LLC : DEP invites comments on General Waste Permit WMGR123 for treatment of oil and gas wastewater for 1.3
Air Quality Permits -- Williams Field Services Company, LLC - White Compressor Station: DEP renewed the GP-5 General Air Quality Permit covering multiple airpollution sources for the facility located in Springville Twp., Susquehanna County. Application received Sept. 30, 2024, approved Oct. 9, 2024. ( Susquehanna County.
. - J.Blaisure Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP approved a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with production wastewater to meet the Statewide Health Standards at the pad located in Jessup Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Greene County. Received Sept. 13, 2023, Revoked April 23. ( Greene County. Received Feb. 4, Revoked April 17. (
million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use naturalgas and hydrogen in their operations forever into the future. It seems clear the tax credits are an attempt to try to make naturalgas competitive again through taxpayers subsidies after U.S.
The following notices were published in the April 19 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. PA Bulletin, page 2939 ) 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 51 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Received Sept.
For DEP, the Agenda includes a proposed regulation establishing an annual permit fee for shale gas wells [ Read more here ] and updated waste management regulations covering conventional oil and gas operations [ Read more here ]. Bradford County. ( Butler County. Received Jan. 28, Issued Jan. Washington County. Received Dec.
Every step of the petrochemical and plastics supply chain releases harmful pollutants - from extraction of fracked ethane gas used to make the building blocks of plastics to processing, production and transportation.
DEP issued multiple violations related to the incident, including contamination of a water supply, discharge of pollutants into waters of the Commonwealth and failure to control the disposal of drilling wastes. Greene County [PaEN] -- 6-Inch Conventional NaturalGas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Causes Spill In Rostraver Twp.,
. -- Hyde Park Foundry & Mach Co - Violation: Abandoning Well (2023) October 25, 2024 follow-up inspection of the LOTS 255,256,257,358 2 in Hyde Park Borough, Westmoreland County found the well abandoned, not plugged and without production, waste generation and well integrity reports. DEP continued violations. DEP continued violations.
On January 22, Senators Steven Santarsiero (D-Bucks) and Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, introduced Senate Bill 581 to increase setback safety zones from naturalgas drilling sites and other infrastructure based on the latest science. Read more here.
On September 18, Senators Steven Santasiero (D-Bucks) and Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, announced they were introducing legislation to increase setback safety zones from shale naturalgas drilling sites based on the latest science. Read more here.
So, we're all making decisions right now about whether it makes any sense, again, to vote on something that would ban naturalgas development in the state, said King. She added-- It is possible that the department proposes something different that is not effectively a ban on oil and gas development.
As rising electricity costs and energy demand strain family budgets and our electric grid, Congress should preserve residential and utility-scale clean energy investments as well as other measures that wisely steward, rather than waste, our precious energy resources. Earlier Action The MERP's waste emissions charge is estimated to raise $7.2
May 11, the Environmental Integrity Project and Clean Air Council filed a federal lawsuit against the Shell Petrochemical Plant for repeatedly violating permitted airpollution limits from a massive new plastics production plant in Beaver County, which opened last year. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S.
. -- DEP published notice in the May 3 PA Bulletin it received an Air Quality Plan Approval application on April 4 for a 4.6 gigawatt naturalgas-fired power plant from Homer City Generation, LLC to be located in Center Township, Indiana County. ( There is a 30 day public comment period from this publication. Read more here.
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 the agenda for DEP’s Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board June 13 meeting is a discussion of a variety of topics, including-- -- Potential For Wastewater Migration From Underground Injection Disposal Wells -- Financial Assurance Strategies To Address Future Well Abandonment -- Orphan & Abandoned Well Topics-- -- Implications Of Changing Definitions (..)
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
On August 14, CNX Resources issued a press release announcing the preliminary results of air emissions monitoring at 14 sites it said "indicate that CNX naturalgas development poses no public health risk." Eleven of the sites were monitored for as little as just four weeks up to 24 weeks or less.
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.
As Attorney General and now as Governor, I have listened to Pennsylvanians concerned about their health and safety and I am delivering on the promise I made to them to conduct the most robust air monitoring in the country, saidGov. will be monitored close to the well pad through the duration of the air monitoring project.
On September 13, the Pittsburgh-based Environmental Health Project issued a review of the University of Pittsburgh studies released on August 15 showing links between naturalgas development and Lymphoma cancer, worsening asthma conditions and lower birth weights. "We
On March 14, the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Adelphia Gateway naturalgas pipeline company was not entitled to a different outcome in Federal Court after receiving an adverse judgment in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in Cole et al v. Department of Environmental Protection in 2021. Opinion, p.
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.
Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Majority Chair of the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee , announced to the Committee-- “Five minutes ago I was called by my [Democratic] leadership and asked to not run these bills” to increase safety zones around naturalgas facilities and enacting a cryptocurrency permit moratorium. “I
After an experience dealing with airpollution issues in her own home, she has first-hand knowledge of the health impacts that pollution can have on a family and how government agencies often ignore residents in distress. Injection Wells There are the waste drains. We heard a lot about the waste from the site.
This means that Pennsylvania-based [conventional] oil and gas companies are the region’s primary perpetrators of leaked methane. On a national level, these wells waste enough methane to supply over 3.6 billion in wasted energy. million homes in the U.S. annually, amounting to $1.5 These leaks, however, are fixable.
Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Chesapeake Appalachia llc - Marbaker Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated by production wastewater to meet a Statewide Health Standard at the pad located in Auburn Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Delaware County. ( Greene County. ( Franklin County. (
On September 27, families in Southwest PA will gather at a Washington County Town Hall meeting to seek answers and policy changes one month after studies by the University of Pittsburgh linked naturalgas development and increases in asthma and negative childhood health outcomes.
in Lower Burrell City, Westmoreland County and found it to be abandoned and not plugged with a faint odor of gas. The owner also failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports for at least five years. On October 11, 2024 , DEP inspected the WK Stewart 1 conventional well owned by Big Sand Drilling Co Inc.
Hill also noted the company has been under investigation by the Office of Attorney General for possible state Solid Waste Management Act violations over road dumping of their wastewater under the co-product determination process in DEPs Residual Waste Regulations. Read more here. I've got brine from that well."
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. Those grand jurors, they did incredible work.
The following notices were published in the March 29 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. PA Bulletin, page 2565 ) Read more here. -- Tennessee Gas Pipeline - Compressor Station 219: DEP to hold May 7 hearing on Title V RACT 3 Permit for the facility located in Jefferson Township, Mercer County. ( Luzerne County. (
The following notices were published in the April 26 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Miles Of 20-Inch NaturalGas Pipeline: DEP invites comments on a Chapter 105 permit for a pipeline project impacting Robinson Run and wetlands at several locations. Jefferson County. ( Greene County. Bradford County.
Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To NaturalGas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [September 2023] -- State Dept.
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.
The well-- Wissinger 001-- is owned by Kriebel NaturalGas Co. LLC that also had a conventional gas well explosion and fire on March 19 in Manor Borough, Westmoreland County. Read more here. The March 25 e xplosion involved a production storage tank and occurred at 10:25 a.m while the well tender was blowing out the well.
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