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Washington County [January 2025] -- Environmental Health Project Releases New White Paper: PA's Shale Gas - What We Can Do Now To Better Protect Public Health [PaEN] -- On Feb. Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts From NaturalGas Development [November 2023] -- Part I - Environmental Impacts: State Dept.
Of Health, Penn State Medical Webinars On Caring For Persons Living & Working In Communities With Oil & NaturalGas Extraction [PaEN] -- Part II - Health Impacts: State Dept.
Chevron drilled two shale gas wells on the Latkanich property approximately 500 feet from the familys water supply starting in 2011. On April 22, 2022, the Latkanichs filed a complaint with DEP requesting an investigation of their water supply saying it was impacted by oil and gas operations, including PFAS forever chemicals.
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.
The repeated and heavy road dumping of conventional oil and gas wastewater that continues on Pennsylvania dirt and gravel roads and amounts to the repeated "ground surface" application of oil and gas wastewater evaluated in the Moody study. Read more here - page 50. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.
-- Financial Times: How Oil & Gas Companies Disguise Their Methane Emissions -- WBOY: EPA Officials Share Findings After Radiation Found At Fairmont, WV Oil & Gas Wastewater Processing Site -- Altoona Mirror Editorial: Norfolk Southern Railcar Inspection Rule Problematic -- Utility Dive: North American Electric Reliability Corp: NaturalGas (..)
The webinar will serve as a platform for the virtual release of Pennsylvanias Shale Gas Boom: What the Shapiro Administration Can Do to Better Protect Public Health, a companion piece to our 2022 white paper on shale gas development accountability.
Hosted By PA League Of Women Voters & University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health [PaEN] -- Fact Sheet: How Oil and Gas Operations Impact Your Babys Health -- Frackland Video Tour, with Lois Bower-Bjornson , Clean Air Council -- 3 Days That Shook Washington County: NaturalGas Plant Explosion; Pipeline Leak Of 1.1
The repeated and heavy road dumping of conventional oil and gas wastewater that continues on Pennsylvania dirt and gravel roads and amounts to the repeated "ground surface" application of oil and gas wastewater evaluated in the Moody study. Read more here - page 50. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.
The 2009 finding was referenced in subsequent endangerment and cause-or-contribute findings for other source categories, including power plants , oil and naturalgas operations , and aircraft. EPA also made a separate cause-or-contribute finding in which it determined that U.S.
DEP Radiation Protection Advisory Committee meeting. Of Rural Conservation Spring Fling Bird Watch Walk In Washington County 6th Oil/NaturalGas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables -- Financial Times: China Says It Can Live Without US Farm, Energy Goods [PA Exported $3.1 April 30-- In-Person.
It takes a year, sometimes two or three to find those responsible, in particular for shale gas operations. We heard testimony from some homeowners who felt that oil and gas operators would remove their water buffalo in direct response to additional or continuing complaints that they made. Read more here.
And when I assumed office in 2022, one of the things that I certainly articulated to my community in representing them is that this issue of our energy industry in Pennsylvania, it needs to be coupled with rigorous environmental regulation and certainly in sensitive areas relative to schools and parks and residential areas.
DEP Radiation Protection Advisory Committee meeting. Muhlenberg Township Building, 210 George Street, Reading. Click Here to watch online. April 30-- Agenda Posted. April 30-- In-Person. Delaware River Basin Commission Public Input Session On Climate Resilience Plan. Liberty, New York.
This year, in addition to the trihalomethane notice, we received notices of exceeding lead levels and notices above radiation levels. Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To NaturalGas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [September 2023] -- State Dept.
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.
On January 12, the PJM Interconnection declared ‘Conservative Operations’ to maintain electric grid reliability forced by naturalgas pipeline fuel restrictions brought on by winter weather impacts on their operations. No action is requested of the public.
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.
By Lisa DePaoli, Center for Coalfield Justice Time and time again, EQT [naturalgas drilling company] shows that they don’t care about the communities they operate in. The company has not provided a sufficient alternative source of water since the frack-out that occurred in New Freeport, PA on June 19th, 2022.
Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Calls Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment ‘Stupid’ [PaEN] -- State Dept. Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?
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.
In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether naturalgas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. See Paragraph 71 in appeal.] Read more here.
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.
The PA League of Women Voters and the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health is now accepting registrations for the 11th Annual Shale Gas & Public Health Conference to be held in-person and online November 14 in Pittsburgh.
Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,103 notices of violation so far in 2023, which means they are on track to exceed the 1,234 violations DEP issued them in 2022, according to DEP’s newly released 2022 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report. Read more here. Read more here.
Million People ‘Are Impacted By General Oil & Gas Operations’ In Pennsylvania [April 2025] -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3 Million People ‘Are Impacted By General Oil & Gas Operations’ In Pennsylvania [April 2025] -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3
Federal regulations-- 40 CFR 261-- which are followed by the state regulations, say any drilling fluids, produced waters or other waste from exploration, development or production of oil, naturalgas or geothermal energy are exempt from hazardous waste regulations. Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?
To put these numbers in context, DEP just issued its 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report that said 5,416 notices of violation were issued to conventional operators during all of 2022. DEP reported it had issued conventional oil and gas operators 4,514 notices of violation in 2021 in the 2021 Oil and Gas Annual Report.
On September 30, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas fracking operations in Pennsylvania sent nearly 236,00 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to out-of-state low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal, more volume than all the industries combined in the four-state Appalachian Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact.
By Justin Nobel This guest essay first appeared on I nquirer.com on September 16, 2022. If the radiation levels in the sludge decrease enough, the waste can be trucked to the same local landfills that handle household trash instead of being shipped by rail to radioactive waste disposal sites out west — a more expensive but safer option.
The Department of Environmental Protection issued a record 6,860 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. more than in 2022 and 569.9% Click Here to read the 2022 compliance report summary. Culture Of Non-Compliance’ On December 29, 2022.
Scope The General Permit covers liquid wastewater generated by any oil and gas operation defined under the Unconventional Oil and Gas Regulations in Chapter 78a , including well sites, water withdrawals, residual waste processing and treatment operations, construction of pipelines, naturalgas compressors and naturalgas processing plants.
Environmental Protection Agency issued for public input a draft white paper on control techniques and measures that could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new stationary combustion turbines. electricity generation in future years, primarily use naturalgas to create electricity.
FBP would treat fluids from the hydraulic fracturing process used to extract naturalgas. The shale gas industry also shipped over 138,000 cubic feet of TENORM waste to secure low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities in 2022 and over 911,000 cubic feet since 2017. Read more here.] [In
None of the samples indicated that contaminants were present at concentrations that would require remedial action under Pennsylvania residual waste regulations, and none showed any risk of harm to the public or environment from radiation. Use It Here - First’ [PaEN] [Posted: December 15, 2022] PA Environment Digest
In August of 2020 when the last permit fee increase was put in place, DEP estimated it would need the revenue from 2,000 unconventional shale gas permits a year to adequately support the regulatory program for both conventional and unconventional oil and gas drilling. [In Read more here. [
“And while we don’t have the data to unambiguously tie increases in stream sediment radium to disposal of these wastes in landfills, the observations clearly indicated we should really start scrutinizing, and probably rethink, the disposal of oil and gas waste in landfills.” Related Articles This Week: -- Agenda For Oct.
Of Conservation Districts: Highlights Of County Conservation District Activities In 2022 -- 49 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA -- Gov.
Click Here for more photos & maps Recent DEP Inspections DEP’s eFACTS database file for the Mohr A and B lists the sites as “active” and the last onsite inspection was conducted on September 8, 2022. PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec.
The PA League of Women Voters and the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health have made videos of the panel discussions, presentations and Q/A sessions from the 2023 Shale Gas and Public Health Conference held on November 14. Visit Health’s Oil and NaturalGas Production Health Concerns webpage for more information.
The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 13 PA Bulletin it 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 213 ) Read more here.
“During the permitting process, the permittee misrepresented a lot of things in the application, specifically ongoing water pollution, the fact that this would include oil and gas waste, and it would be a radiation source,” said Johnson “That's just the tip of the iceberg on the permitting issues we've seen in this one case.
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