PA Marcellus News Digest
March 7, 2012
Special: FRACKING Dilbert cartoon attached
Articles
Investors buy Cerro Metals site
Centre Daily Times
Cliff White
Feb. 15
[...]Navitus LLC, an investment group composed of local companies Shaner Capital LP and G.M. McCrossin, as well as British equity firm Hadleigh Assets, recently purchased the 173-acre site in Spring Township. The group plans to refurbish the site and reopen it as a business park.
Link: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/02/15/3090819/investors-buy-cerro-metals-site.html
Webinar examines Marcellus gas development and local water decisions
Penn State Live
March 2
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A Web-based seminar sponsored by Penn State Extension will examine municipalities' roles related to water use and protection in the face of burgeoning Marcellus Shale gas development in Pennsylvania.
Link: http://live.psu.edu/story/58188
'Cracker' petrochemical plants hold promise of more jobs
Post-Gazette
Erich Schwartzel and Laura Olson
March 7
Falling natural gas prices and campaigns from Pennsylvania lawmakers have revved up the next step of the Marcellus Shale drilling boom: the petrochemical chapter, a development phase that could promise the kind of construction and job creation not seen in the region since steel's heyday.
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12067/1214961-28.stm
Cracker plant investments to soar
Tribune-Review
Bloomberg News
March 7
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. said its industry may spend $30 billion to build U.S. factories that convert natural gas into plastics because shale gas has made American production the cheapest outside the Middle East.
Link: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_785201.html
Susquehanna County leaders voice impact fee support
Times-Tribune
Staci Wilson
March 7
Before deciding on whether to impose the state's impact fee, the Susquehanna County commissioners on Tuesday wanted some other opinions.
More than 100 people attended the special meeting in Montrose to get information about Act 13, the Unconventional Gas Well Impact Fee Act.
Link: http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/susquehanna-county-leaders-voice-impact-fee-support-1.1282350#axzz1oSOyeZgv
Lawsuit targets Pa.'s use of forest drilling money
WFMJ
AP
March 6
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - An environmental advocacy group is suing Gov. Tom Corbett to get Pennsylvania state government to stop using money from drilling in publicly owned forests for anything besides improving the forests.
Link: http://www.wfmj.com/story/17094099/lawsuit-targets-pas-use-of-forest-drilling-money
Environmental Group Calls DEP Funding Plan a “Ponzi Scheme”
NPR State Impact
Susan Phillips
March 6
It should come as no surprise that environmental groups like Clean Water Action and the Sierra Club are protesting proposed cuts to the Department of Environmental Protection. The groups held a press conference today in Harrisburg, where they said DEP should get a larger slice of the pie.
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/03/06/environmental-group-calls-dep-funding-plan-a-ponzi-scheme/
DEP leader testifies at tense House budget hearing
Post-Gazette
Laura Olson
March 7
HARRISBURG -- There was no warm welcome for the state's top environmental official on Tuesday when he walked into his agency's budget hearing with House lawmakers.
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12067/1214928-454.stm
Fracking Divides GOP Party
Governing
AP
March 6
When it comes to the controversial gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, the Republican Party itself appears fractured — especially in the critical swing state of Ohio.
Link: http://www.governing.com/news/politics/ap-fracking-divides-gop-party.html
Lackawanna County Residents Get The Waste, Drillers Get The Cash
NEPArtisan
Daniel Hodorawis
March 6
The PA Department of Environmental Protection (a Republican led administration joke of a department, thanks to our joke of a Governor) has decided, since Lackawanna County has landfills, why not dump the toxic waste from the drilling done in other counties here.
Link: http://nepartisan.com/?p=4625
Borough seeks answers on water withdrawal
Sun-Gazette
Josh Brokaw
March 6
PICTURE ROCKS - At Monday night's meeting, Borough Council approved the draft of a letter to the Susquehanna River Basin Commission concerning EXCO Resources withdrawing water from Muncy Creek.
Link: http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/575423/Borough-seeks-answers-on-water-withdrawal.html?nav=5011
Toomey talks Marcellus in visit to Johnstown
Altoona Mirror
Zach Geiger
March 6
JOHNSTOWN - While trains no longer run in and out of the old Shell Plant at 163 Cramer Pike, the giant manufacturing warehouse is still a hub of manufacturing activity.
Link: http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/558780/Toomey-talks-Marcellus-in-visit-to-Johnstown.html?nav=742
Sounding off on gas drilling
Observer-Reporter
Bob Niedbala
March 6
CARMICHAELS - Cumberland Township supervisors were asked Monday if anything can be done to make sure all drilling companies abided by good neighbor policies.
Link: http://www.observer-reporter.com/or/story11/03-06-2012-Cumberland-Township
Cecil joins neighbors in gas law opposition
Observer-Reporter
Brad Hundt
March 6
CECIL - Cecil Township has joined a handful of other Washington County municipalities considering legal action against the state's new law regulating oil and gas drilling.
Link: http://www.observer-reporter.com/or/story11/03-06-2012-Cecil-meeting-Marcellus-Shale
Diesel fuel spill in Greene County spurs state investigation
Tribune-Review
Tory N. Parrish
March 7
The state is investigating a Pittsburgh-based Marcellus shale-drilling company's diesel fuel spill that flowed from a Greene County well into Patterson Run unbeknownst to local officials.
Downtown-based EQT Corp., the parent company of Equitable Gas Co., spilled 480 gallons of diesel in Center Township in December, according to John Poister, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection. The spill occurred when diesel fuel was being transferred out of a temporary fuel tank, he said.
Link: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_785151.html
Lawsuit targets Pa.'s use of forest drilling money
Centre Daily Times
AP
March 6
HARRISBURG, PA. — An environmental advocacy group is suing Gov. Tom Corbett to get Pennsylvania state government to stop using money from drilling in publicly owned forests for anything besides improving the forests.
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