By Jeremy Boren, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, April 17, 2011 Rolling hills and wide-open meadows attracted JoAnne Wagner to Mt. Pleasant, a Washington County community about 25 miles from Pittsburgh. That was in 2005. Today, the Marcellus shale gas boom has swept in more than 100 wells, pipelines, waste water ponds, trucks and bitter debates between those… Read more »
Sam had collected a number of handguns and rifles over the years and was aware that in Pennsylvania he was allowed to carry a firearm, as long as it was visible, except in the city of Philadelphia. Sam was driving on Main Street in Newfoundland when he was pulled over by a state… Read more »
Posted: March 13, 2011 Development of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale presents new challenges for emergency responders. A webinar to be offered on March 17 will discuss training, safety and response management options for natural gas development in the state. (From Penn State Ag Science News) The boom in natural-gas drilling into the Marcellus… Read more »
MATT HUGHES [email protected] The state Department of Environmental Protection on Monday released the results of a study into Marcellus Shale natural gas operations and their effect on air quality. The survey, based on data collected near Marcellus Shale natural gas operations in Susquehanna and Sullivan counties over four weeks, detected the main constituents of natural… Read more »
Freeze on issuance of drill permits sought to allow for study, regulation changes. MATT HUGHES [email protected] The first bill, also introduced by Mundy last summer, would place a one-year moratorium on the issuance of new gas drilling permits in order to give the state General Assembly time to enact necessary changes to environmental laws and… Read more »
BILL O\’BOYLE [email protected] WILKES-BARRE – Nearly 100 people came to ask questions of their legislators and hear their answers, but time was not on their side. Two state senators and six state representatives formed a panel at the annual Legislative Breakfast sponsored by the Wilkes-Barre Area League of Women Voters held Saturday morning in the… Read more »
PENNSYLVANIA SO far missed out on an estimated $121 million in revenue from theMarcellus Shale natural gas industry, and the tally spurts higher with each day that drillers siphon the resource from below our forests and farms. How much more money will we lose? 250 million? A billion? How much can we afford to lose? A… Read more »
The Utica Shale could become more important to the state than the Marcellus Shale. DAVID THOMPSON Williamsport Sun-Gazette WILLIAMSPORT — The Marcellus Shale may be Pennsylvania\’s biggest economic development story in decades, but it is not the state\’s only potentially lucrative shale play. “What we are likely to see in some areas of the Marcellus region… Read more »
Firm says drilling in Lake and Fairmount townships reveals insufficient natural gas. MATT HUGHES [email protected] The only company to drill Marcellus Shale gas wells in Luzerne County is pulling out of the region. Encana Oil & Gas USA Inc. announced Thursday that the two exploratory wells it has drilled in the county are unlikely to produce… Read more »
Claiming the lawsuit is “replete with hyperbole,” and arguing the Kingston-based “Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition” lacks legal standing, the contractor accused by the coalition of labeling anti-drilling activists as potential terror threats filed paperwork today seeking to be dismissed from the suit. The Coalition filed the lawsuit in federal court Sept. 27, naming state former Homeland… Read more »
