2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

Newspaper Articles Gas Drilling

"BEFORE the drilling starts, I would strongly recommend that you take detailed pictures of your home and buildings". call your home owners insurance and see if you are covered for structural damage from drilling.

Has your community done baseline water testing documenting the current water values BEFORE drilling OR...BEFORE additional drilling ?

Pennsylvania's bucolic countryside life is now quite a gas

Pavillion, Wyoming
Groundwater Investigation

August 2010: Pavillion, Wyoming is located in Fremont County, about 20 miles northwest of Riverton. The concern is
groundwater contamination, based on resident complaints about smells, tastes, and adverse changes in
water quality in private wells. EPA was first contacted by community members in 2008.

August 17, 2010
Pittsburgh ordinance to ban drilling within city

Environmental groups urge N.J., Pa. to consider impact studies before adopting natural gas drilling rules

Published: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 7:32 PM
Brian T. Murray/The Star-Ledger

TRENTON — Environmental groups urged New Jersey and Pennsylvania today to await the outcome of two impact studies before adopting regulations on a controversial natural gas drilling proposal for the Delaware River Basin.

The New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club and the Delaware Riverkeeper Network accused New Jersey of reversing its once-cautious approach toward drilling in what is called the "Marcellus Shale" formation, citing a July 13 letter written by Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin. In it, Martin urged the Delaware River Basin Commission to allow "a limited number of exploratory wells" and "promulgate regulations no later than Sept. 30" for production wells. more...

For Immediate Release

Marcellus Shale Drillers in Pennsylvania Amass 1435 Violations in 2.5 Years

DEP records show a total of 1435 violations of state Oil and Gas Laws due to gas drilling or other earth disturbance activities related to natural gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale in this 2.5-year period. more...

Drilling Company Says It Will List Hazardous Chemicals Used in Fracking

http://www.propublica.org/article/drilling-company-says-it-will-list-hazardous-chemicals-used-in-fracking

July 15, 2020: One of the largest gas drillers in the Marcellus Shale has announced that it will disclose the chemicals it uses in its Pennsylvania wells. The company, Range Resources, said it will display the list on its website, giving regulators and landowners an account of the hazardous chemicals injected into each well.

Susquehanna gas well

State regulators are investigating a Tuesday night fire at a natural gas well in Susquehanna County.

Cabot seeks to get out of Sullivan, Wayne, [and Pike.]
By Dan Hust
SULLIVAN COUNTY DEMOCRAT

Cabot Oil and Gas, one of the early players in the natural gas leasing effort in the area, has put its entire leased acreage in Sullivan County up for sale.

It’s also doing the same in neighboring Wayne County, PA, likely because of the ongoing regulatory uncertainty in the Delaware River watershed.

Gas drillers bid twice what Pa. budgeted

By Andrew Maykuth and Amy Worden Inquirer Staff Writers

HARRISBURG - Natural-gas drillers yesterday bid $128.5 million to develop 32,000 acres of Pennsylvania state forests, twice the revenue the state had budgeted, prompting fears of a headlong rush to overrun public lands to tap into the rich Marcellus Shale.

Environmental Concerns Rise in Northeastern Pennsylvania as Natural Gas Drilling Spreads

Carolyn Weaver | New York 02 January 2010

Victoria Switzer and her husband, Jim, are building what they hoped would be their retirement home in the rural hamlet of Dimock, Pennsylvania, in the eastern U.S. When Cabot Oil & Gas offered a lease for the natural gas under their land a few years ago, saying that it might drill a single horizontal well nearby, they weren't worried.

Gas driller cited for violation after environmentalist takes photos

Published: December 31, 2009
A state investigation sparked by a local environmentalist who rented an airplane to gather photographic evidence has revealed an unreported contaminate release at a natural gas drilling site in Wayne County.

Good explanation of the wellhead set-up (video)

Monitors to check streams in gas-drilling areas
By Andrew Maykuth

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Responding to growing concerns that the Marcellus gas boom may cause an increase in water pollution, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission announced today that it would install a network of electronic monitors to measure water quality on streams in the gas-drilling areas.

NEW YORK CITY REPORT: "CATASTROPHIC"

New York City called on state officials to ban gas drilling in the watershed. Drilling is called an "unacceptable threat" with "catastrophic consequences" to drinking water. NYC-DEP conducted this 11-month technical study - and made a decision based on hard science.

CONTAMINATION AT WELL SITE IN WATERSHED

An investigation of the Robson Well has confirmed contaminated soils at the site. This is the only active well within the watershed region. It was drilled with no oversight by watershed basin regulators - under great opposition by Damascus Citizens. Thus we took two sets of aerial photographs, circled the site with a coordinated set of water tests, and our legal team filed an official complaint on October 5. We have had no response.

http://www.damascuscitizens.org/Robson.html

Environmental fears over U.S. shale gas drilling

DCNR does not have resources

Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Acting Secretary John Quigley told the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee this week his agency does not have the resources to police State Forest Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling as it ramps up over the next few years.