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Gas Drilling Using Best Management Practices

By Dr. Anne Harris Katz
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1 week 2 days ago

The Texas Oil and Gas Accountability Project has published a best management practices guide for its state's oil and gas development. This could be a model for state's newly under pressure for unconventional shale drilling -- like Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia. more»

Drilling Concerns: Make Your Voice Heard

By Dr. Anne Katz
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1 week 2 days ago

Here are two places on the Internet where you can add your voice to those of many others concerned about natural gas drilling issues. more»

DEP's Failure

By Jon Bogle for Responsible Drilling Alliance
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1 week 5 days ago

BEFORE: Muncy Creek floodplain, north of Tivoli, flooded on Jan. 25, 2010.
AFTER:  By Feb. 21, 2010, XTO had a well in full operation.   more»

Help Us Stop Illegal Water Pollution

By David Masur, PennEnvironment Director
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2 weeks 5 days ago

As gas drilling ramps up across the state, many companies are already running roughshod over environmental laws like the Clean Water Act, and illegally polluting our environment. We need companies to follow our environmental laws -- but we need your help. more»

Natural Gas Pipelines Are Next

By Dr. Anne Harris Katz
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2 weeks 5 days ago

First it was well pads, frac ponds and access roads. Now, that gas is coming out of the ground, the industry is ratchetting up its efforts to build the infrastructure necessary to get gas to the markets where people and industries use it. So, it's pipelines. In our area of Pennsylvania, pipeline construction -- and the land leasing efforts associated with this -- are up and running. more»

Telling Us What We Want to Hear

By Jon Bogle for www.responsibledrillingalliance.org
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3 weeks 4 days ago

I find that the gas drilling industry manipulates the facts to their advantage on a number of issues.  Recently, a gas industry talking point has appeared designed to calm our concerns.  We are told it isn’t the practice of the industry to return and refrack their wells. Too expensive is the explanation. more»

Hyner View State Park - View in peril from gas trucks

By Jim Nevins, Western Clinton Sportsmen's Association
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4 weeks 37 min ago

 I am the Information and Education Coordinator for the 1000+ member Western Clinton Sportsmen's Association.  We have been an environmental watchdog for this section of North Central Pennsylvania for over 80 years.  more»

Be a Voice for Clean Water; Only Four Days Remain

By Barbara Jarmoska
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4 weeks 1 day ago

Friday is the last day for you to comment on the proposed standards to reduce new TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) discharges into Pennsylvania’s rivers. New, enhanced restrictions are recommended by the DEP’s Environmental Quality Board in hopes of offsetting the hazard posed to PA streams and rivers from millions of pounds of salt in gas well drilling waste water (also known as frack water). more»

NY Congressman Vows to Protect State from Gas Industry

By NorthcentralPA.com
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6 weeks 5 hours ago

New York Congressman Eric Massa authored an article in the Pen Yan, NY Chronicle-Express vowing to protect the region from natural gas industries intent on creating toxic dumps.

Read a few excerpts: more»

Keeping an Eye on the Gas Industry

By Dr. Anne Harris Katz
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6 weeks 5 hours ago

For those watching the gas drilling industry's activities, keep in mind that the federal EPA now has a hotline (they call it a tip line) for reporting issues that the public spots. details are available at this website (also in the attachment): http://www.epa.gov/region03/marcellus_shale/tipline.html more»

PA's Streams and Rivers Need You

By Dr. Anne Harris Katz
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7 weeks 5 days ago

If you have not already told DEP what you think of their proposed new regulations on dumping pollutants into our streams and rivers, please take time to do it now. more»

Send Carney a Message

By Dr. Anne Katz
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8 weeks 10 hours ago

Congressman Carney has publicly stated that he isn't ready to commit his vote to the Frac Act, but he might be willing to get off that fence to vote in favor if enough people -- in and out of his district -- tell him he should. more»

Gas Industry's 'Green' Credentials Far from Certain

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8 weeks 6 days ago

The natural gas industry works diligently and pays much money to convince local residents, members of congress, and the public at large that there’s no need to worry about water, land and air contamination as a result of drilling. more»

Pennsylvania Farms Soon to Become Waste Farms

By NorthCentralPA.com
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9 weeks 2 days ago

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Soon, the words "farm" and "land" in Pennsylvania won’t bring idyllic visions of rolling green hills dotted with grazing cattle, or quilted with fields of corn, wheat and rolls of hay. more»

We Can’t Take Safe Drinking Water for Granted

By Janet K. Little, MPH, RD, LDN
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10 weeks 1 day ago

When calculating a patient’s fluid needs, I have never wondered if the water will have contaminants such as Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and sulfates and chlorides from gas drilling.  But, I do now after attending a Public Hearing on Proposed New Marcellus Wastewater Standards.  The Environmental Quality Board recently held public hearings in Allentown and other locations in the state. more»

Are Gas Companies ‘Toxic Terrorists’?

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10 weeks 1 day ago

Homeland Security monitors municipal water supplies to ensure that terrorists do not poison Americans; however, people should also be concerned about local terrorism in the form of oil and natural gas companies that contaminate the water and environment with hazardous toxins. more»

The story of Dish, Texas

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13 weeks 2 days ago

This blog, created and maintained by Calvin Tillman, mayor of Dish, Texas, "...shows the extreme negative effects that the natural gas pipeline industry has had on the small town of DISH, Texas.  We have three metering stations, 11 compressor stations, and over 20 pipeline, in less that 2 square miles. more»

Testimony on Proposed Wastewater Regulations

By Nathan Sooy, Clean Water Action
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11 weeks 5 days ago

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. –  All across Pennsylvania, natural gas companies are rushing to drill new gas wells to extract gas deposits in the Marcellus Shale – which runs beneath most of our state one mile down. more»

Gas Industry Paints Bulls Eye on Marcellus Shale

By Barbara Jarmoska
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11 weeks 5 days ago

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. –  On August 18th the Environmental Quality Board proposed to amend 25 Pa. Code Chapter 95 relating to Wastewater Treatment Requirements. more»

Job 1 Is to Tame Marcellus Shale drillers

By Jan Jarrett, President / CEO PennFuture
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11 weeks 5 days ago

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. –  With 2009 winding down, your PennFuture is already making plans for 2010. more»

Rush to Drill on Massive Scale Has Dangerous Implications

By Cathy Frankenberg, Clean Water Action
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11 weeks 6 days ago

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Statement by Cathy Frankenberg, Lehigh Valley Program Organizer, Clean Water Action on proposed revisions to Chapter 95, Wastewater Treatment Requirements. December 17, 2009 more»

Pennsylvania Should Follow New York’s Lead

By Anne Harris Katz, Ph.D.
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11 weeks 6 days ago

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. –  My name is Anne Harris Katz. I am a resident of Fairfield Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. I am a professional biologist retired from a career in academic science. more»

TDS, Salt Will Change the Ecology of the Rivers

By Harvey M. Katz, Ph.D.
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11 weeks 6 days ago

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. –  My name is Harvey M. Katz and I live in Fairfield Township, Lycoming County, PA. Though I am currently retired I spent my career as a research fishery biologist and worked initially as a marine biologist and later with large and small riverine freshwater systems. more»

Proposed TDS limitations

By Tanya Dierolf, PennFuture
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11 weeks 6 days ago

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. –  My name is Tanya Dierolf. I am the Central Pennsylvania Outreach Coordinator for Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture). PennFuture is a statewide, public interest, membership organization with five offices throughout the Commonwealth. more»

Caution Required in Gas Drilling

By Joe Sestak
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11 weeks 6 days ago

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Statement by U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Joe Sestak (D-7-PA) at an Environmental Quality Board Public Hearing on proposed revisions to Chapter 95, Wastewater Treatment Requirements. more»

On Point Radio Podcast Discusses Hydraulic Fracturing

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12 weeks 2 days ago

America could be the Saudi Arabia of natural gas, they say. New technology — hydraulic fracturing — makes it possible, accessible. But it also means shooting a river of chemicals up and down through our water table. The water we drink. This hour, On Point: American energy, and the rewards and costs of getting at the gas trapped in shale.

Read the article here: more»

Hitchhikers Extend Aquatic Reach to PA Thanks to Gas Drilling

By Dr. Anne Katz
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13 weeks 2 days ago

The golden algae that caused the Dunkard Creek fish kill in West Virginia may have come east from Texas in a natural gas tanker truck. No matter how it got here, it's in the waterways of the northeast now. more»

Use Your Feet to Protect Our Rivers

By Responsible Drilling Alliance
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13 weeks 2 days ago

Gas drilling waste water is extremely high in TDS.  Under current rules they are allowed to discharge this TDS content directly into the river.  The new proposed rules would greatly limit new TDS discharges.  Not surprisingly these new proposed rules have come under quite a bit of pressure from a number of industries not just the gas drillers.  It is important to note that thes more»

Maybe it won't happen, but it could

By Anne Katz
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13 weeks 6 days ago

Have a look at this article about uranium getting into water wells in Nevada, and consider the mechanism. Then think natural gas drilling. more»

Monitoring Marcellus Gas Drilling in Pennsylvania

By Dick Martin, Pennsylvania Forest Coalition
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13 weeks 6 days ago

Is it possible to enable growth of the gas energy industry and still protect our water resources?  If we don’t do this correctly – from the start – taxpayers could be paying for a century of cleanup such as what we were stuck with from the coal industry acid mine drainage cleanup.  Here is a list of problems that must be solved:
 

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