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Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set more protective standards on the development of naturalgas than required in state or federal law and while a challenge to local restrictions is being litigated. Read more here.
On November 7, PA Republican Senators introduced Senate Bill 1346 that punishes local elected officials who want to better protect their constituents from the documented adverse health and environmental impacts of shale gas development. Read more here. In October 2022, Sen. Read more here. In October 2023, Sen. Read more here.
Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Constellation Energy Generation LLC - Eddystone Gas/Oil Power Plant: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit for the facility located in Eddystone Boro, Delaware County. ( Bradford County. ( Butler County. Received Dec. 13, Authorized Jan. Chester County. ( Bradford County. (
In 2013, they became the first group in the state to adopt a new conservation tool, called a Local Enhanced Management Area. Fossil energy use naturalgas is the most common fuel source for the groundwater pumps was 22 percent lower. Greenhouse gas emissions were 20 percent lower. That outcome appears to be happening.
DEP also issued seven more notices of violations to two more shale gas drillers-- Blackhill Energy LLC and EQT ARO LLC-- for abandoning wells they own, bringing the total for 2025 to 39-- closing in on as many violations as were issued in all of 2024-- 47. Drilled in 2013 but not produced. [ Inactive status expired on February 7, 2019.
18 -- Washington County Judge Rules Sunoco Pipeline Did Not Have Eminent Domain Authority To Take Property For Mariner East Pipelines In Landowner Lawsuit Alleging Fraud [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Leaves Behind: DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co.
Failed To Comply With Act 2 Cleanup Standards At The Greenzweig Shale Gas Wastewater Impoundment In Bradford County After 5 Years [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Is Leaving Behind: DEP Signs Consent Order With Roulette Oil & Gas To Plug Shale Gas Well Abandoned For 8 Years In Hebron Twp.,
DEP recommended the well owners put vents on the wells to vent the naturalgas to the atmosphere. DEP added, “Please note that it is not possible to completely eliminate the hazards of having naturalgas in your water supply by simply venting your well.” The remaining five wells were completed in early 2021.
EQT Chap LLC - Violations: 3 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells (11 Months) March 3, 2025 inspection of the 3 shale gas wells on the Brunazzi Unit well pad (9H, 10H 11H) in Deemston Borough, Washington County found the wells abandoned and not plugged. Wells drilled in 2013. Original violations issued on April 17, 2024.
Here are j ust a few examples of the penalties imposed by DEP against Big Shale Gas and related industries include-- -- $939,553 penalty against Chevron related to fatal gas well fire in Greene County; -- $1.1 billion cubic feet of naturalgas from the Rager Mountain Gas Storage area in Cambria County; -- $1.1
EQT Chap LLC - Violations: 3 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells (11 Months) March 3, 2025 inspection of the 3 shale gas wells on the Brunazzi Unit well pad (9H, 10H 11H) in Deemston Borough, Washington County found the wells abandoned and not plugged. Wells drilled in 2013. Original violations issued on April 17, 2024.
One way to better understand the impact the oil and gas industry has on the daily lives of Pennsylvanians is to read Oil and Gas Program inspection reports to see the kinds of violations DEP uncovers every day, week in and week out, as they inspect oil and gas wells and gas infrastructure across the state.
18 -- Washington County Judge Rules Sunoco Pipeline Did Not Have Eminent Domain Authority To Take Property For Mariner East Pipelines In Landowner Lawsuit Alleging Fraud [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Leaves Behind: DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co. Noon and 7:00 p.m.
The well sites, which were generally developed between 2011 and 2013, include-- -- Big Beaver Borough: Wall BEA 3H -- Chippewa Township: MAGA BEA 8H; Roberts BEA 6H -- Greene Township: Kirkwood BEA 8H -- Industry Borough: Cody Trust BEA 3H -- Ohioville Borough: David Burdick 3H; Fedorchak BEA 3H; James Tharp 3H -- South Beaver Township: David.
The conventional well, owned by Kriebel NaturalGas Co., Kriebel NaturalGas holds 1,681 permits. Drilled in 2013 but not produced. [ Five other companies were also cited for the same violation: Ows Energy, LLC, PPG Oper LLC, Baker Gas Inc., LLC, exploded and caught fire shortly before 1:00 p.m.
. - R.Bushnell Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP approved a Final Report on the remediation of soil contaminated with oil-based mud mixed with diesel fuel to meet the Statewide Health and Background Standards at the pad located in Springville Twp., Susquehanna County. ( PA Bulletin, page.2006 Montour County. ( PA Bulletin, page.1965 Washington County.
The state Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology and Penn State Project ECHO hosted two webinars in January and February for medical professionals and the public on Caring for Persons Living and Working in Communities Involved in Oil and NaturalGas Extraction. Of Health Oil & NaturalGas Production Health Concerns -- Dept.
School Campus Could Save $10 Million -- Scranton Times: Renewable NaturalGas Plant Operator At Keystone Landfill Begins Test Drilling For Underground Carbon Dioxide Storage -- Protecting Clean Water Together: Starting To Think About The Garden? Of Environmental Professionals Inviting Presentation Proposals For Annual Conference Sept.
Kriebel NaturalGas holds 1,681 conventional and related permits. Failed To Comply With Act 2 Cleanup Standards At The Greenzweig Shale Gas Wastewater Impoundment In Bradford County After 5 Years [PaEN] -- DEP Signs Consent Order With Roulette Oil & Gas To Plug Shale Gas Well Abandoned For 8 Years In Hebron Twp.,
A DEP inspection report on February 28 said Chesapeake did preoperational well water samples which identified a landowner with a preoperational water sample that was previously non-detect in 2013, but which now had an elevated methane reading. Slam bar holes and other gas readings found no gas leaking at this well.
Neuman ruled Sunoco Pipeline, LLC did not have eminent domain authority to take property for the Mariner East Pipelines in 2013 from Bradley and Amy Simon and possibly many other property owners. Judge Neuman said since Sunoco was also not regulated as a public utility by the state in 2013, it also had no eminent domain power under state law.
He went on to serve as the SRBCs Executive Director from 1992-2013. Paul also utilized SRBCs enforcement powers more aggressively, especially with respect to water use for naturalgas development that began in the basin in 2008.
On February 14, the President issued an executive order establishing the National Energy Dominance Council to promote the use of crude oil, naturalgas, lease condensates, naturalgas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critical minerals.
PA Bulletin, page 1161 ) -- DEP published notice in the February 1 PA Bulletin it will hold a March 5 hearing on a proposed Title V RACT 3 Air Quality Permit for the Hazleton Generation naturalgas power plant in Hazle Township, Luzerne County. ( Received July 16, Issued Jan. PA Bulletin, page 1110 ) Read more here. Greene County. (
14 - Shale Gas Well Ordered Plugged After 8 Years; 20 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Well Leaking Gas For 23 Months And Counting [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Leaves Behind: DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co.
On June 14, House Bill 1467 was introduced to establish an Oil and NaturalGas Facility Health Impacts Assessment Program in the Department of Health. The Department of Health is required to establish an Oil and NaturalGas Production Health Registry to track public exposures and health impacts from oil and naturalgas facilities.
Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a naturalgas industry wish list of measures they want to expand naturalgas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.
On January 26, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Equitrans Midstream for abandoning and not plugging 19 conventional gas wells at the Swarts NaturalGas Storage Field in Greene County. Billion Cubic Feet Of NaturalGas In 2022 In November 2022, Equitrans Midstream Corp.
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On August 23, the PJM Interconnection Critical Issue Fast Path Resource Adequacy stakeholder group heard testimony and suggestions on the issue of making electricity market changes to address nonperformance of naturalgas and other generators during emergencies and events like Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here.
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On February 11, CNX Resources CEO Nicholas Deluliis told DEPs Citizens Advisory Council a year and a half of air and water monitoring shows no material impact to air or water quality from their naturalgas development operations. Deluliis did a presentation to the Council on Radical Transparency, a program CNX launched with Gov.
Dernbach said that Pennsylvania’s courts did not take the environmental rights amendment seriously until 2013, when they invalidated parts of a state law that encouraged oil and gas development. NextEra operates a naturalgas plant and several solar facilities in Maine, while Calpine and Vistra run naturalgas plants in the state.
PA Bulletin, page 2006 ) Waste Permits -- PennEnergy Resources, LLC - W58 Tank Pad: Permit application withdrawn for the installation of 1 tank for oil and gas liquid waste under WMGR123 in Winfield Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2010 ) -- National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. PA Bulletin, page 2013 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc.: Tioga County. (
The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility are proud to co-host the 2025 Shale Gas and Public Health Conference on February 27 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
Reliability Resource Initiative (RRI) proposal to fast track naturalgas power plants at the exclusion of renewable and other clean energy projects, leaving them stuck in the permitting queue. On February 12, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the PJM Interconnection, Inc.s
From June 24 to 30, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 435 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 23 violations of environmental regulations-- 8 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 15 violations by the unconventional shale naturalgas industry.
All the wells were drilled in the first rush of shale gas drilling before 2013 The violations were issued for these wells-- -- Fayette County Henry Clay Twp.: W.Smith 1 - Abandoned and leaking gas since Sept. Almost all are repeat offenses where Diversified has failed to correct violations for more than three and a half years.
a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi, PetroChina and Kogas): 2013 – 2021 Shell Canada Ltd.: 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: Susannah Pierce also has a track record of aggressively promoting the liquified naturalgas (LNG) industry. As always, the format is satirical but the information is real.
Note: One of the three studies was DEP’s 2013/2016 TENORM study of naturally occurring radioactive material in oil and gas wastewater, drill cuttings and naturalgas itself completed with the help of Perma-Fix Environmental Services.] All three reports support our findings.” 1 Monthly Eyes On Shell Meeting.
Failed To Comply With Act 2 Cleanup Standards At The Greenzweig Shale Gas Wastewater Impoundment In Bradford County After 5 Years [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Is Leaving Behind: DEP Signs Consent Order With Roulette Oil & Gas To Plug Shale Gas Well Abandoned For 8 Years In Hebron Twp.,
Meaningful Air Monitoring Results Difficult DEP’s Bureau of Air Quality did regional air quality sampling around shale gas facilities between 2010 and 2013 in Southwest, Northcentral and Northeast parts of the state. CNX installed two Particulate Matter 2.5 Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.
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