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Train to Be a Pine Creek Waterdog

By Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group
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3 days 2 hours ago

WELLSBORO -- Become a Pine Creek Waterdog. It’s simple and could make a huge difference in protecting our environment and assisting the DEP in enforcing compliance with our regulations. more»

PA Environment Digest: March 8, 2010

By PennEnvironment
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3 days 6 hours ago

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CBF, TU Call for Ban on Marcellus Gas Wells in Floodplains

By Chesapeake Bay Foundation
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1 week 3 days ago

Hydrofracking in Floodplains is an Environmental Disaster Waiting to Happen more»

Can Gas Well Casings Protect Us from Leaks - Long-Term?

By Dr. Anne Harris Katz
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1 week 3 days ago

When looking to answer the question of whether well casings are adequate to protect water supplies and public health and safety, look no further than the release posted below from DEP. It describes a situation where an old well casing failed, resulting methane gas release. more»

Marcellus Shale Topic of Wildlife Society Conference

By Pennsylvania Chapter of the Wildlife Society
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1 week 3 days ago

The Pennsylvania Chapter of the Wildlife Society will host the 2010 annual Spring Conference and Workshop, “Marcellus Shale Gas Extraction: Lessons Learned from Past Natural Resource Extraction and What the Future Holds” March 19-20 at the Ramada Inn, State College. more»

Fate of Hyner View State Park Vista Remains Unresolved

By James Nevins, Western Clinton Sportsmen’s Association
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2 weeks 1 day ago

CHAPMAN TOWNSHIP -- Interest in what some are calling “The Battle of Hyner Mountain,” continues to draw local, state-wide and even international interests to enter the fray. more»

Hyner View State Park/water withdrawal hearing

By Jim Nevins, Western Clinton Sportsmen’s Association
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2 weeks 3 days ago

CHAPMAN TOWNSHIP -- The issue of the safety of Hyner View State Park and the vista from its summit remains unresolved. 

At the Feb. 18 hearing before the Chapman Township Zoning Board, considerable testimony from various parties was given -- so much, in fact, that a second hearing must be scheduled.  more»

Oil, Gas Office in Scranton to Improve Oversight

By Department of Environmental Protection
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5 weeks 11 hours ago

HARRISBURG -- Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger today announced plans to open a new Oil and Gas Management office in Scranton, Lackawanna County, to improve the agency’s ability to oversee and respond to issues stemming from increased natural gas drilling throughout the region. more»

Pennsylvania’s Gas Wells Booming—But So Are Spills

By Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica
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6 weeks 2 hours ago

As more gas wells are drilled in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale, more cases of toxic spills are being reported. Earlier this month, Pennsylvania's environmental officials fined Pennsylvania-based Atlas Resources after a series of violations at 13 wells, including spills of fracturing fluids and other contaminants onto the ground around the sites. And just last week the agency fined M.R. more»

Place a Moratorium on Drilling in Forests

By David Masur, PennEnvironment Director
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6 weeks 9 hours ago

Pennsylvania's state forests are some of the most pristine, wild parts of our natural heritage. Unfortunately, state officials in Harrisburg are threatening to do irreversible damage to our state forests for short-term gain. [1]

Politicians in Harrisburg want to give gas companies carte blanche to carve up and drill throughout our precious state forests. more»

Marcellus Shale Updates: PA Environment Jan. 25

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6 weeks 4 days ago

Follow one of the links below to read more Marcellus Shale-related updates from PA Environmental Digest.

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DEP Fines M.R. Dirt Inc. $6,000 for Residual Waste Sludge Spill

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7 weeks 2 days ago

Seven Tons Spilled in Clinton County Last Fall

WILLIAMSPORT -- The Department of Environmental Protection has fined M.R. Dirt Inc. of Towanda, Bradford County, $6,000 for a residual waste sludge spill last September at the Avis exit of U.S. Route 220 in Pine Creek Township, Clinton County. more»

Marcellus Shale Coalition Announces New President

By PA Environment Digest
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7 weeks 2 days ago

The Marcellus Shale Coalition this week announced Kathryn Klaber as the new organization's first President and Executive Director.

The announcement was made before about 700 people at the Second Annual Marcellus Shale and Department of Environmental Protection Best Management Practices Workshop and Training Seminar in State College. more»

Sierra Club Urges Adoption Of Severance Tax

By PA Environment Digest
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7 weeks 2 days ago

Responding to the announcement that the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources had successfully auctioned $128.4 million in gas exploration leases, the Pennsylvania Sierra Club called on Gov. Rendell to restore the funding to the agencies that administer state lands. more»

SRBC Orders Gas Driller to Stop Work

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7 weeks 3 days ago

HARRISBURG -- The Susquehanna River Basin Commission on January 12 ordered Texas-based Novus Operating, LLC, a natural gas drilling company, to immediately cease all water-related activities at two drilling pad sites in the Marcellus shale formation in Brookfield Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.  The company began drilling two wells without prior approval from SRBC. more»

'What We Don't Know'

By ProPublica
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9 weeks 5 days ago

ProPublica has uncovered more than a thousand reports of water contamination from drilling across the country, some from surface spills and some from seepage underground. In many instances the water is contaminated with compounds found in the fluids used in hydraulic fracturing. more»

Environment Trumps Drilling in NY

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10 weeks 2 days ago

Despite the fact that key environmental issues remain unresolved, gas drilling and extraction is accelerating in Pennsylvania.  

In fact, state politicians have worked hard to get out of drillers’ way. more»

Gas companies, environmental agencies dispute drilling impact

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10 weeks 2 days ago

The Marcellus Shale boom may be impacting the air, a concern that is more important to some than economic development and water concerns.

Environmental groups are claiming air pollution is caused by trucks, compressors and processing plants associated with drilling for the clean burning fuel. Natural gas industry companies are rushing to dismiss the claim. more»

Contamination at PA Gas Well Site in Watershed

By Damascus Citizens for Sustainability
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10 weeks 4 days ago

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa -- According to the Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, an investigation of the Robson Well site in Oregon Township, Wayne County, PA, has confirmed contaminated soils at the site. This is the only active well within the watershed region. more»

Environmental Costs of Drilling Are Emerging

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11 weeks 22 hours ago

After drilling nearly 700 Marcellus Shale wells throughout Pennsylvania, environmental costs of drilling are emerging. more»

Advocacy Group Releases Policy Blueprint

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13 weeks 2 days ago

In the face of ongoing environmental damage and public health threats posed by Marcellus Shale drilling, a statewide environmental advocacy group released a new policy blueprint today that will tackle these challenges as drilling continues across the Commonwealth. more»

Marcellus Shale Drill Sites Alter Pa. Land Use

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13 weeks 3 days ago

RENOVO – For decades, natural-gas drilling has been part of the landscape in Sproul State Forest, a vast timberland in northern Pennsylvania pocked with hundreds of shallow wells and crossed by pipelines. But Douglas J. more»

Pennsylvania residents sue over gas drilling

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15 weeks 3 days ago

DIMOCK, Pennsylvania, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Residents of a small rural Pennsylvania town sued Cabot Oil&Gas Corp (COG.N) on Friday, claiming the company's natural-gas drilling has contaminated their water wells with toxic chemicals, caused sickness and reduced their property values. more»

Pine Creek 'Waterdogs' Hold Training Session

By Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group
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14 weeks 3 days ago

The Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group is holding its second training workshop for Waterdogs to help document and record possible environmental violations at Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling operations.

The training session will be held on December 8 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts (104 Main Street, Wellsboro) more»

What’s in Store for PA’s Natural Resources?

By Robert M. Pennell
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16 weeks 2 days ago

They call it the “Pennsylvania Wilds,” over 6 million acres of relatively unspoiled forests and mountains in 12 northern Pennsylvania counties, long known for its remnants of virgin forests, pristine mountain streams, abundant wildlife and magnificent vistas. Just over 2 million of those acres are public land, an area equivalent to the acreage occupied by Yellowstone National Park.   more»

Oil and Gas at Your Door

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EARTHWORKS' Oil and Gas Accountability Project produced a comprehensive guidebook for landowners who are being confronted with oil and gas development. OGAP works with tribal, urban and rural communities to protect their homes and the environment from the devastating impacts of oil and gas development. more»

Marcellus Shale Waste Water Radioactive

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New York's Department of Environmental Conservation analyzed 13 samples of Marcellus Shale drilling wastewater and ascertained that they contain levels of radium-226, a derivative of uranium, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the environment and thousands of times the limit safe for people to drink. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/10-2

Landowner Sues Energy Company for Contaminating Soil, Water

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A landowner in southwest Pennsylvania is suing Atlas Energy Inc. for polluting his soil and water. more»

PA Faces Onslaught of Wastewater

By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica
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22 weeks 5 days ago

Workers at a steel mill and a power plant were the first to notice something strange about the Monongahela River last summer. The water that U.S. Steel and Allegheny Energy used to power their plants contained so much salty sediment that it was corroding their machinery. Nearby residents saw something odd, too. more»

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