PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
On February 26, the Independent Fiscal Office reported 2023 Pennsylvania natural gas production was up 1.0% Total annual production was 7,520 billion cubic feet in 2023; 7,441 billion cubic feet in 2022; 7,563 billion cubic feet in 2021; 7,077 billion cubic feet in 2020; and 6,816 billion cubic feet in 2019.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 31, 2024
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 Natural Gas Storage Field in Greene County. 2019 Violations The environmental compliance record of Equitrans Midstreams is not encouraging.
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PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2023
On October 17, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held an informational briefing on Project Canary , a company that measures, analyzes and reports on methane emissions from natural gas production and distribution infrastructure.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 10, 2023
On December 27, 2022-- Christmas week-- a malfunction at the CNX Oak Springs Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Station in South Franklin Township, Washington County resulted in the release of an estimated 1.1 million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. From approximately 10:14 a.m. to at least 11:55 a.m.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 4, 2023
The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a proposed Section 401 Water Quality Certification related to an Equitrans proposal to drill two new horizontal natural gas storage wells in the Swarts Complex and Hunters Cave Storage Fields in Center, Franklin, Morris and Washington Townships, Greene County. (
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 5, 2023
From July 29 to August 4, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 702 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 68 entries of environmental regulation new and outstanding violations-- 67 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 1 violation by the unconventional shale natural gas industry.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 14, 2023
On March 14, the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Adelphia Gateway natural gas pipeline company was not entitled to a different outcome in Federal Court after receiving an adverse judgment in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in Cole et al v. Department of Environmental Protection in 2021. Opinion, p.
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