|
# |
Web Link |
|
1 |
Pennsylvania Game Commission accepting bids for leasing local game lands to gas companies
The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently announced that it would be accepting bids from natural gas companies to lease State Game Lands 36, which is located across Monroe and Overton Townships and consists of over 3,177 acres, for the development of natural gas drilling.
|
|
2 |
Shale may spur manufacturing
With Americans perhaps more divided than ever, imagine a rare source of bipartisan acclaim that would greet more "Made in the U.S.A." labels and less that read "Made in China." That is precisely what could happen if the shale gas boom continues to thrive and catapult America's flagging manufacturing sector into a long-overdue renaissance.
|
|
3 |
Using their own product
There has been a fair amount of speculation that the use of the natural gas in the Marcellus Shale and other shale plays around the country will reduce the United States' dependency on foreign fuels. In fact, even the natural gas companies themselves are striving to become more energy independent.
|
|
4 |
Control waste by all sources
State regulators moved with uncommon dispatch in 2010, after monitors detected high levels of salty bromides - waste from oil and gas drilling - in several Western Pennsylvania rivers.
|
|
5 |
Docs say drilling law hurts health
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Public health advocates and doctors on the front lines of Pennsylvania's natural gas-drilling boom are attacking the state's new Marcellus Shale law, likening one of its provisions to a gag order and complaining that vital research money into health effects was stripped at the last minute.
|
|
6 |
EPA releases 20 new Dimock water test results
Federal regulators found no health threats in a second round of water test results released Friday as part of an investigation in Dimock Twp. but said they plan to retest one well where they detected an elevated level of arsenic.
|
|
7 |
Towanda Boro receives first drilling royalties
TOWANDA - Towanda Borough has received its first royalty check from Chesapeake Appalachia LLC's gas lease on 11 acres of mineral rights that the borough owns at its former landfill site on Bridge Street Hill, the borough manager said.
|
|
8 |
Gas drilling companies state how they would be affected by Bradford County gas impact fee
Under HB 1950, which was signed into law last month, counties in Pennsylvania can choose to levy an impact fee on gas drilling companies. The Daily Review asked several gas drilling companies a series of questions to find out how they would be affected if such an impact fee were levied in Bradford and Sullivan counties. The questions were posed to Chesapeake Energy Corp., Talisman Energy USA Inc., Chief Oil & Gas, Southwestern Energy Co., and EOG Resources Inc.. All of the companies, except EOG Resources, supplied written answers to the questions. Printed below are the highlights of their answers:
|
|
9 |
Critics’ claims just as brittle as shale
Seven years after the first well was sunk in Pennsylvania, the Marcellus Shale has left its childhood and eagerly entered its adolescence. Reviewing this experience shows Marcellus development has provided tremendous benefits to Northeastern Pennsylvania and the commonwealth as a whole.
|
|
10 |
Clock ticking on counties to act on impact fees
HARRISBURG - As counties with active Marcellus Shale wells decide whether to levy a drilling impact fee or not, the full implications of this newest twist in the use of local options in Pennsylvania are just starting to become apparent.
|
|
11 |
Frack water treatment plant under review
NORTH TOWANDA TOWNSHIP - At the Bradford County Planning Commission's meeting on Tuesday, two residents raised concerns about a proposed plant in Terry Township that would treat flowback water from hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells.
|
|
12 |
As boom slows, worry sets in
TOWANDA - Vince Arena has a commanding view of Route 6 from Moore's Auto Showroom. Since 2006, he has seen the traffic on the two-lane road swell with the region's gas boom until it is bumper-to-bumper, light-to-light for miles just about all day.
|
|
13 |
Bradford County commissioners, citizens debate gas impact fee
TOWANDA - Before the Bradford County commissioners decide whether to impose an impact fee on Marcellus gas drilling in the county, a mechanism will be set up to get input on the matter from local township supervisors and borough council members, a Bradford County commissioner said Thursday.
|
|
14 |
Twenty-five more troopers in NEPA Shale region
HARRISBURG - Twenty-five state troopers have been reassigned to duty in the Marcellus Shale drilling region in Northeast Pennsylvania over the past two years in response to population growth and a corresponding increase in incidents, State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan told a Senate panel Thursday.
|
|
15 |
Corbett can't see the forest for the gas
Last week the Corbett administration fired the head of an independent agency that monitors state forests and characterized it as a simple cost-cutting measure.
|
|
16 |
Critics challenge gas zoning loss
HARRISBURG - A local resident referred to Dallas Twp.'s experience with Marcellus Shale industry facilities Tuesday as a key reason to oppose impact fee legislation that would make the state attorney general referee in disputes over gas zoning ordinances.
|
|
17 |
Dimock supporters to take water plea to EPA chief
Supporters of Dimock Twp. families at odds with a Marcellus Shale driller over water contamination plan to take their plea for fresh drinking water to the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday.
|
|
18 |
Dimock resident accuses supervisors of 'secret' meeting with Cabot, drilling supporters
DIMOCK TWP. - Deep divisions among neighbors over the impact of Marcellus Shale drilling on this Susquehanna County community erupted Tuesday night with allegations that the board of supervisors held a "secret" meeting with gas company officials.
|
|
19 |
Benton monitoring of gas well called "the right thing to do"
As the state General Assembly considers legislation to curb local control of natural gas drilling, an experiment in local oversight of an exploratory Marcellus Shale well in Benton Twp. has been an "unequivocal" success, a supervisor said.
|
|
20 |
UGI's First Direct Interconnection to Natural Gas Wells in the Marcellus Shale
MANSFIELD - UGI Utilities, the largest natural gas distribution company in Pennsylvania, held a dedication ceremony recently in Mansfield that celebrated the company's first direct interconnection to natural gas wells in the Marcellus Shale, enabling "the delivery of Pennsylvania natural gas to UGI customers directly from the wells," according to a press release from UGI.
|
Contact Us
Blog
Radio Show All Things Marcellus:
Links of Interest 
