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Green groups split on protections in drilling bill
Environmental protections built into natural gas drilling legislation that passed the state Senate on Tuesday convinced some environmental groups to endorse the bill with reservations even as others rejected it wholesale as a giveaway to the gas industry.
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In Dimock, EPA acts in public interest
The Corbett administration's recent characterization of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as naive interlopers evaporated like so much gas last week.
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DEP: Cabot drilling caused methane in Lenox water wells
Methane in three private water wells in Lenox Twp. seeped there from a flawed natural gas well drilled by Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., state environmental regulators have found.
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Appalachia Midstream Fined for Albany Township Violations
The Department of Environmental Protection has fined Appalachia Midstream Services LLC of Horseheads, NY, Chesapeake Energy’s pipeline division, $19,510 for numerous erosion- and sediment-control violations originally found last winter at its compressor station in Albany Township, Bradford County.
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Citizen responses spur compressor hearings for first time
In the long history of natural gas development in Pennsylvania, the meeting at Montrose High School on Dec. 6 was a first.
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Federal environmental and health agencies collect data from Dimock families
Officials from federal environmental and public health agencies met with residents of Dimock Twp. late last week to discuss the impacts of Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling and to gather water-test results from families affected by methane migration.
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Order water deliveries
Like every state agency, the Department of Environmental Protection has a duty to uphold the state constitution.
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Lawyer: Dimock water unsafe; deliveries should go on
Attorneys for Dimock Twp. families suing a natural gas driller over contamination claims are asking the state's chief oil and gas regulator to reverse his decision allowing fresh water deliveries to the families to end.
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Review of natural gas well failure in Bradford County shows no lasting damage
A review of a natural gas well that failed in Bradford County six months ago shows no lasting damage to the environment, according to information released late Saturday by Chesapeake Energy Corp.
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DEP chief: troubled pipeline crossing now "ship shape"
A pipeline crossing under a high-value Susquehanna County stream is now "in ship-shape condition" after several spills this summer muddied the creek, Pennsylvania's top environmental regulator said after a tour of the site late last week.
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DEP inspections show more shale well cement problems
At the recent Shale Gas Insight conference in Philadelphia, the CEO of one of the largest Marcellus Shale drilling companies in Pennsylvania was unequivocal in his message that methane contamination of drinking water supplies from faulty gas wells is at an end.
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Water tanker truck rolls over in Alba area Spills 1,600 gallons of recycled water
Two people were sent to local hospitals after a water tanker truck rolled over Sunday on state Route 14 near Alba, spilling 1,600 gallons of recycled water from gas drilling operations, authorities said.
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DEP study refutes Crystal Stroud's claim of gas well poisoning
Granville Summit resident Crystal Stroud's claim that she suffered barium poisoning by drinking well water contaminated by natural gas drilling has been refuted by a DEP investigation, DEP officials said on Thursday.
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DEP oil and gas chief touts state drilling rules and enforcement
TUNKHANNOCK - The head of the Department of Environmental Protection's oil and gas bureau told a Wyoming County audience Tuesday night that state laws are more stringent than federal laws that apply to natural gas drilling, and Pennsylvania's rules continue to get stronger.
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DEP says flow of drilling wastewater almost halted
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania's environmental regulators believe that companies drilling in the huge Marcellus Shale natural gas formation have largely stopped taking salty, chemically tainted wastewater to riverside treatment plants that are ill-equipped to remove all the pollutants, an official said Friday.
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With agreement in place for tainted water, residents wonder what's the fix?
An agreement between the Department of Environmental Protection and Chesapeake Energy to address methane seeping into water wells in Bradford County has left some affected residents wondering how and if the deal will help fix their tainted water.
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DEP fines Chesapeake more than $1 million for fire, contamination incidents
The state Department of Environmental Protection has fined natural gas driller Chesapeake Energy a record $1.1 million for a series of water contamination incidents and a well-site fire that injured three workers in the last year.
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DEP to review study linking shale drilling to methane contamination
State environmental regulators are reviewing a study released Monday by Duke University researchers that found "systematic evidence" of a link between shale gas extraction and methane contamination of drinking water in Northeast Pennsylvania.
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State calls for halt to shale wastewater treatment at 15 plants
State environmental regulators called Tuesday for Marcellus Shale natural gas drillers to voluntarily stop taking wastewater to 15 treatment plants that do not have to meet strict discharge standards that went into effect last year.
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Rubber stamp poor standard for gas permit
Of more than 7,000 permit applications for wells that natural gas drillers have submitted to the state Department of Environmental Protection, the agency has rejected only about one half of 1 percent.
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