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What’s Up With Water — June 7, 2022

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In France, May was unusually warm, and that could limit operations at some of its nuclear power facilities. Most inland facilities cool their power-generating equipment with river water. In recent years, several heat waves in France have affected nuclear power generation, forcing plants to cut back or shut down.

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DEP Reports Shale Gas Operations Sent Over 138,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2022 - Over 911,000 Cubic Feet Since 2017

PA Environment Daily

On September 29, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas operations in Pennsylvania sent 138,336 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to the Waste Control Specialists low-level radioactive waste facility in Texas for disposal. Click Here for DEP table on TENORM waste. Read more here.

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DEP: XTO Energy Failed To Restore 5 Multi-Million Gallon Shale Gas Water Impoundments In Butler County

PA Environment Daily

14, 2022, Deadline for restoration August 2023 DEP inspection report. -- Ambrose Freshwater Impoundment: Last use Nov. 13, 2022, Deadline for restoration August 2023 DEP inspection report. . -- Summit Township-- -- Kozik Centralized Freshwater Impoundment: Last use was Nov. DEP requested a response to the violations by June 12.

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Sen. Yaw Proposes Independent Energy Office To Promote Development Of PA’s Diverse Energy Portfolio - Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Coal

PA Environment Daily

Not mentioned at all was the fact that natural gas costs went up by as much as 128% for Pennsylvania consumers and electricity costs by as much as 34%, driven by the natural gas price spikes caused by the whims of a Russian dictator that resulted in oil and gas industry profits of $200 billion in 2022.

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DEP: PA Fracking Operations Sent Nearly 236,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2021 - 811,070 since 2016

PA Environment Daily

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.

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DEP Invites Comments On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities; 7 Hearings Set

PA Environment Daily

Existing Oil & Gas Methane Rule The Environmental Quality Board adopted regulations in December 2022 requiring methane pollution reductions from conventional oil and gas facilities in response to a federal rule then in effect. Read more here. Only 27 conventional facility owners submitted reports in June 2024 as required. Read more here.

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PA Republican Senators Introduce Bill To Punish Local Elected Officials Who Want To Protect Their Constituents From The Documented Adverse Health, Environmental Impacts Of Shale Gas Development

PA Environment Daily

In October 2022, Sen. million, down over $100 million from the record revenue in 2022 of $278.9 That provision was declared unconstitutional by the PA Supreme Court in a landmark ruling in December 2013 based on the Environmental Rights Amendment in Pennsylvania’s Constitution. Read more here. Read more here. 27 Released 1.1