HARRISBURG – A bill to improve emergency management and response at Marcellus Shale wellsites received the approval of the Senate today. Sen. Lisa Baker (R-20) offered the following remarks in support of the measure, which she sponsored: There are many [...]
By Julie Johnsson and Mark Chediak Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) — A shale-driven glut of natural gas has cut electricity prices for the U.S. power industry by 50 percent and reduced investment in costlier sources of energy. With abundant new supplies [...]
From Potter County Today Actions of two relatively new local organizations — the Triple Divide Watershed Coalition and the Water Quality Action Team – are being cited as water protection and public education models that could be followed across the [...]
Company Lost 800 to 1,000 Gallons in March 2011 WILLIAMSPORT – The Department of Environmental Protection has fined TerrAqua Resource Management LLC of Williamsport, Lycoming County, $18,500 for a March 2011 hydraulic fracturing, or frack, water spill at the company’s [...]
CANTON – A fracking brine spill at a Talisman Energy USA Kirkowski well pad in Bradford County is a case of vandalism, police said Thursday. Officials from the state police, state Department of Environmental Protection and Talisman Energy are investigating [...]
From Potter County Today Federal and state environmental officials will be in Potter County on Wednesday (Jan. 11) to learn more about county’s Triple Divide Watershed Coalition. That organization will meet at 9 am in the Roulette Firehall. During a meeting of [...]
From Potter County Today Seneca Highlands Career & Technical Center, in partnership with the Potter County Education Council, has been approved as a ShaleNET Training Partner – one of just eight established in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. Having an [...]
Process uses deep wells in rock to dispose of liquid wastes during natural gas drilling From MSNBC Recent earthquakes in Ohio and Oklahoma have been directly linked to deep wells used to dispose of liquid wastes for hydraulic fracturing or [...]
HARRISBURG – Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Mike Krancer today urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to dismiss a petition that the Clean Air Council filed with EPA in November 2011. The petition claimed that Pennsylvania is failing to implement [...]
HARRISBURG – Legislation authorizing increased state oversight of natural gas pipelines in Pennsylvania has been signed into law by Gov. Tom Corbett. Bill sponsor Rep. Matt Baker (R-Bradford & Tioga) said he was pleased that the General Assembly and governor [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett in December signed a state bill into law which gives the Public Utility Commission regulatory oversight of the commonwealth’s natural gas pipelines. The state law will take effect in February. On the federal level, [...]
Company Lost Control of Natural Gas Well for Three Hours WILLIAMSPORT – The Department of Environmental Protection has fined Talisman Energy USA Inc. of Warrendale, Butler County, $51,478 for a January 2011 gas well control incident at the company’s Department [...]
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor earthquakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday. [...]
HARRISBURG – A disagreement between Pennsylvania House and Senate versions of legislation that would empower county governments to enact impact fees to help cover the local effects of Marcellus Shale gas drilling continues to cast a shadow over the state’s [...]
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A supervisor in a small rural township in northern Lycoming County took matters into his own hands when a Marcellus shale drilling company kept using a road it had been told to keep big trucks off of. Daniel Roupp [...]
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