PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection has received and is reviewing the Act 2 Land Recycling Final Report by Equitrans on the cleanup of soil around the conventional gas well that failed and resulted in the uncontrolled venting of 1.1 PA Bulletin, page 201 ) The report deals with the George Reade 1 conventional well. 30 to Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection gave notice in the June 3 PA Bulletin it is taking action to enforce an order against Michael Harju and Economy Natural Gas, Inc. for their failure to plug four conventional natural gas wells leaking methane in Scott Township, Allegheny County. Photo: Economy Natural Gas, Inc.:

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2023

The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee will hold its second hearing May 1 on electric grid reliability and the failure of natural gas and other generation to provide power when called on by PJM during Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here. Read more here ] Click Here to read more from February hearing.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2023

The report’s concerns echoed statements on June 13 by Public Utility Commission Vice Chairman Stephen DeFrank about the intermittent nature of natural gas generation caused by extreme weather. Dry natural gas production in the Lower 48 dropped 16% from Dec. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2023

A January 3 DEP inspection report shows Energy Transfer reported a nine and a half hour uncontrolled release of ethane and other vapors from its Revolution Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County during a Christmas Day explosion and fire at the plant. on December 25 and ceased as of 4:59 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The PA Environment Digest prepared a policy paper in August of 2021 on the issue of requiring natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines to have insurance or financial assurance in place to cover property damage, bodily harm and environmental cleanup resources if a leak or explosion happens. Now, we simply don’t know. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The fact Loyalsock Creek is classified by DEP as an exceptional value stream -- the best water quality that must be protected with no degradation; and was designated the 2018 Pennsylvania River of the Year by DCNR and called a “timeless treasure” in the middle of this fight, was not enough to protect the watershed. [The

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2023

The DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council is scheduled to meet on May 25 to discuss a variety of issues including well plugging, proposed waste management regulations, methane emission court challenge, road dumping drilling wastewater and more.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2024

LLC to plug the Nancy 13 conventional gas well in Deerfield Township, Warren County that was found to be leaking brine and gas since at least December 20, 2018 -- continues. DEP’s eFACT database shows River Ridge Gravel Co has permits for 111 oil and gas wells. Read prior history here.] Photos: Row 1-- Tatonka Oil Co.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2021

The PA Environment Digest prepared a policy paper on the issue of requiring natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines to have insurance or financial assurance in place to cover property damage, bodily harm and environmental cleanup resources if a leak or explosion happens. Now, we simply don’t know. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

the Department of Environmental Protection released the first-ever assessment of how well conventional oil and gas drillers comply with state environmental laws and concluded, “(the) conventional oil and gas industry’s recent record of compliance with Pennsylvania law is simply not good, particularly with regard to improper abandonment of wells.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2022

“One of your first acts when you take office must be a ban on road spreading of ALL drilling waste.” Pennfield has obtained a Co-Product status instead of Waste with our brine. Additionally, that same company routinely lists the same amount of waste spread for each of its entries in a county. Click Here to sign petition.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

On April 5, township supervisors, concerned residents, and advocacy organizations submitted a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection calling on the agency to conduct a proper Public Participation Process for an oil and gas waste injection disposal well in Potter County. Some listings include links to permit applications.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2024

18 Webinar On Unlocking The Power Of Hydrogen [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project Executive Director Alison Steele Selected For Indo-Pacific Leadership Lab Climate Change And Adaptation Initiative -- Appalachian Region Independent Power Producers Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

On April 13, House Bill 170 (Otten-D-Chester) was introduced to expand safety zones around oil and gas wells and related natural gas infrastructure to help reduce their adverse impacts on public health and the environment. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

“The Department has determined that activities associated with your [Greylock’s] oil and gas activities, specifically the leak at the Mohr impoundment, has resulted in pollution of a private water supply.” million because the company paid the penalty in full before January 31, 2018. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hess, Former Secretary Department of Environmental Protection The information submitted to DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management from eight conventional oil and gas companies to justify allowing them to dispose of millions of gallons of wastewater by spreading it on dirt roads fails to meet the requirements of DEP’s 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On September 10, 2018, a second landslide occurred at the site. ETC Northeast Pipeline, LLC, is charged with 2 counts of Prohibition of Discharge of Industrial Waste; 2 counts of Prohibition Against Other Pollutions; 2 counts of Potential Pollution; and 3 counts of Unlawful Conduct.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2022

An October 13 inspection by the Department of Environmental Protection again found multiple violations of the state Clean Streams Law and Solid Waste Management Act at the PA General Energy Shawnee water withdrawal and natural gas pipeline construction site on the Loyalsock Creek in Gamble Township, Lycoming County.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

DEP issued notices of violations for abandonment, failure to submit annual production and waste generation and well integrity reports and for other violations. Violations related to well abandonment and failure to submit annual production and waste generation and well integrity reports remain in place. [

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

On December 12, the Better Path Coalition delivered signatures from 65 organizations , institutions, and businesses, and more than 2,700 individuals on a letter and petition calling on Governor-Elect Shapiro to ban road spreading of conventional drilling waste. Pennfield has obtained a Co-Product status instead of Waste with our brine.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

DEP took higher level enforcement actions against 15 other conventional operators for violations, including issuing Field Orders, Administrative Orders and Compliance Orders and obtaining Court Orders, for spills, illegal disposal of waste, creating a health and safety hazards by venting gas and erosion and sedimentation BMP failures.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

More Background Since March 2011, the state Department of Health has been attempting to document health complaints of residents initially in unconventional oil and gas drilling areas and maintains a Health Complaints Registry. within one-half mile). Of Health Awards $2.5 Of Health Awards $2.5

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

billion cubic foot uncontrolled venting of natural gas in November 2022. Every conventional gas well is vented to the atmosphere for days to remove stray solids and liquids and other foreign matter from the well that could contaminate the stream of natural gas. Read more here. and Pennzoil Company in Elk County.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

More complete DEP records now show conventional oil and gas drillers reported spreading 977,671 gallons of untreated drilling wastewater on Pennsylvania's roads in 2021, according to an updated report by the Better Path Coalition released Wednesday. Fracking waste is fracking waste. Read more here. There’s no difference.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

But the answer is not to waste public dollars to build expensive gas pipelines that will exacerbate climate change for decades. Natural” gas is a fossil fuel and was responsible in 2018 for the biggest spike in carbon emissions Ontario has seen in decades.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2024

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the January 27 PA Bulletin -- -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 27 PA Bulletin it is extending the deadline for conventional and unconventional natural gas facility operators to submit their first methane pollution emissions report to June 1, 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Among the issues raised by the appellants in their original appeal were-- concerns the landfill’s operation would attract birds and interfere with the operation of the nearby Grove City Airport; that the oil and gas drilling wastes the landfill was allowed to accept presented a radiation hazard; and the landfill’s compliance history.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

President, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community - By Rev. Ketyer, M.D.,

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2024

Cases like this should prompt a broader discussion of financial assurance requirements for conventional oil and gas operators, like the well plugging insurance concept presented by DEP to the PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council last October. Read more here. No follow-up response requested; -- August, 2022: No cleanup progress.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 8, 2024

29 Webinar On Green Infrastructure And Salty Stormwater DEP Accepting Applications For 2023 Reimbursement For Waste Host Municipality Inspectors Applications Now Being Accepted For DEP County Recycling Coordinator Grants PA Resources Council: Resolve To Waste Less In 2024, PRC Has Lots Of Tools To Help Still Time To Enter! 30 to Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

And perhaps one reason it’s not is because only six companies account for 70 percent of the penalties, resulting in less impact on an industry that has made abandoning oil and gas wells with little or no penalty a pervasive part of their business model. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

After a legal challenge to the practice in 2018 arising from environmental and health concerns, DEP temporarily banned most spreading of wastewater from conventional oil and gas drilling on the approximately 25,000 miles of dirt and gravel roads in the state. million gallons between 2018 and 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2023

Acquires PA-Based Plants & Goodwin Well Plugging Firm To Create Methane Emission Offsets House Environmental Committee Holds May 22 Hearing On Hydrogen Hubs & Climate Change PUC Alerts Consumers To Electricity Price Changes Coming June 1-- From 20.7%

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

2018) determined that between 2008 and 2014, spreading OGPW on roads in Pennsylvania released 4-times more radium than centralized treatment facilities and potentially 200-times more than accidental spill events.” Operators reported road dumping a total of 3,259,405 gallons of their wastewater from 2018 through 2021. Read more here.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Natural CO2 refrigeration at the ice rinks to 100% renewables-powered venues are just some of the technologies implemented. For the first time at any Olympics, China is using CO2, collected from industrial waste gases, to cool ice rinks in its four ice sports venues. Cooling ice rinks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This conclusion came from adding up the emissions from coal used to power the production process, natural gas-based fertilizer and diesel fuel used to farm and transport the corn and ethanol. 2030 California Renewable Natural Gas Outlook: Resource Assessment, Market Opportunities, And Environmental Performance.

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