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Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3 Million Highlight Big Shale Gas, Related Petrochemical Industry Compliance History In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

DEP Penalties From 2009 to this year, the Department of Environmental Protection was involved in penalty settlements totaling over $129.7 56,650 For Susquehanna County Spills [October 2009] -- DEP Fines Company Handling Gas Drilling Frack Water $3,000 For Unpermitted Transfer Station [August 2009] -- DEP Agrees To Allow U.S.

2014 99
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Lessee: Don’t Covet Your Neighbor’s Operations

Energy & the Law

Cromwell and Anadarko’s wells In 2009 Cromwell obtained the Ferrer and Tantalo leases covering small fractional interests in several sections. Anadarko drilled the 75 – 26 –1 well, which paid out in August 2009. The primary term of Cromwell’s leases passed in 2012 and 2014 respectively. Under the facts in Cromwell v.

2009 148
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People Won’t Be Able to Eat Healthier Unless We Make It Possible

Union of Concerned Scientists

Double Up Food Bucks started in 2009 in Michigan and has since expanded nationally. An evaluation from 2014 (the only one I could find) found that LAMP served 19,423 producers, and programs with a goal of direct market development served 3.5 In other words, SNAP users can get $20 worth of produce at a local market for half the price.

2014 246
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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

2010 122
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A Day Made a Difference in This Purchase and Sale Agreement

Energy & the Law

The Memorandum recited that it was “subject to other provisions of the Lease” and “the Primary Term thereof expires on the 31 st day of December 2009.” In 2014, Apache bought lessee Gunn’s remaining interest of the leases and its PSA rights. The parties recorded a Memorandum of Lease in the public records.

2016 130
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Dam Battles Converge on Cambodia’s 3S Rivers

Circle of Blue

Construction began in 2014. In a 2009 report he authored for the Rivers Coalition in Cambodia, an NGO alliance, Baird predicted the dam “would result in increased poverty and malnutrition over a wide area in Cambodia.”

2012 273
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Where Is The Water Going?

Circle of Blue

Vidovich made headlines – and a lot of enemies – in 2009 by permanently selling rights to 14,000 acre feet of state water from a Kings County water district to southern California for $73 million, according to media reports. The sale is still considered a blow to Kings’ water portfolio by other farmers. It doesn’t make economic sense.

2009 317