PA Marcellus News Digest
April 18, 2012
Release
SEVENTEEN WATER WITHDRAWALS FOR NATURAL GAS DRILLING AND OTHER USES TEMPORARILY ON HOLD TO PROTECT STREAMS
Streamflows Being Impacted by Below Normal Precipitation
SRBC Newsroom
April 18
HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC www.srbc.net) today announced that 17 separate water withdrawals approved by SRBC are temporarily suspended due to localized stream flow levels dropping throughout the Susquehanna basin.
Link: http://www.srbc.net/newsroom/NewsRelease.aspx?NewsReleaseID=83
Streamflows Being Impacted by Below Normal Precipitation
SRBC Newsroom
April 18
HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC www.srbc.net) today announced that 17 separate water withdrawals approved by SRBC are temporarily suspended due to localized stream flow levels dropping throughout the Susquehanna basin.
Link: http://www.srbc.net/newsroom/NewsRelease.aspx?NewsReleaseID=83
Articles
Fractivists Redefine Fracking
NPR State Impact
Susan Phillips
April 17
Activists planning to demonstrate outside of the headquarters of Aqua America in Montgomery County on Wednesday say the company should hold off on the eviction of a trailer park community in order to build a frack water withdrawal site.
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/04/17/fractivists-redefine-fracking/
NPR State Impact
Susan Phillips
April 17
Activists planning to demonstrate outside of the headquarters of Aqua America in Montgomery County on Wednesday say the company should hold off on the eviction of a trailer park community in order to build a frack water withdrawal site.
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/04/17/fractivists-redefine-fracking/
Krancer Rejects Request to List Susquehanna River as “Impaired”
NPR State Impact
Susan Phillips
April 17
Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer has rejected a request from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to list the Susquehanna River as “impaired” under the Clean Water Act. Fish and Boat Commission executive director John Arway wrote a letter to Krancer April 4, describing increased incidents of “black-spotted” fish turning up in the river.
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/04/17/krancer-rejects-request-to-list-susquehanna-river-as-impaired/
NPR State Impact
Susan Phillips
April 17
Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer has rejected a request from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to list the Susquehanna River as “impaired” under the Clean Water Act. Fish and Boat Commission executive director John Arway wrote a letter to Krancer April 4, describing increased incidents of “black-spotted” fish turning up in the river.
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/04/17/krancer-rejects-request-to-list-susquehanna-river-as-impaired/
Judge hears arguments on Act 13 intervention
Post-Gazette
Laura Olson
April 17
HARRISBURG -- A Commonwealth Court judge said he hopes to rule by Monday on whether the gas-drilling industry and top Republican legislators should be permitted to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the state's new Marcellus Shale law.
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/state/judge-hears-arguments-on-act-13-intervention-631776/
Post-Gazette
Laura Olson
April 17
HARRISBURG -- A Commonwealth Court judge said he hopes to rule by Monday on whether the gas-drilling industry and top Republican legislators should be permitted to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the state's new Marcellus Shale law.
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/state/judge-hears-arguments-on-act-13-intervention-631776/
Beaver County township orders Chesapeake to stop drilling on farm
Post-Gazette
Rich Lord
April 18
A Beaver County township has ordered a halt to shale gas drilling on a farm that is also a habitat for bats, saying that it violates local zoning rules.
The gas company, Chesapeake Appalachia, disputes the township's cease-and-desist order and continues work on the well.
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/marcellusshale/beaver-county-township-orders-chesapeake-to-stop-gas-drilling-on-farm-631922/
Post-Gazette
Rich Lord
April 18
A Beaver County township has ordered a halt to shale gas drilling on a farm that is also a habitat for bats, saying that it violates local zoning rules.
The gas company, Chesapeake Appalachia, disputes the township's cease-and-desist order and continues work on the well.
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/marcellusshale/beaver-county-township-orders-chesapeake-to-stop-gas-drilling-on-farm-631922/
Residents question safety, oversight at meeting about natural gas compressor station explosion
Times-Tribune
Laura Legere
April 18
Link: http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/residents-question-safety-oversight-at-meeting-about-natural-gas-compressor-station-explosion-1.1301763#axzz1sKsPF3Ns
Times-Tribune
Laura Legere
April 18
Link: http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/residents-question-safety-oversight-at-meeting-about-natural-gas-compressor-station-explosion-1.1301763#axzz1sKsPF3Ns
Gas drilling spurs jobs in wildlife, software
The Patriot-News
AP
April 17
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — Before work begins on a gas well or pipeline in northern Pennsylvania, Merlin Benner or one of his colleagues walks the land looking for timber rattlesnakes, a protected species.
Link: http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/gas-drilling-spurs-jobs-in-wildlife-software/b16d352007864479804ce8602bb058f0
The Patriot-News
AP
April 17
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — Before work begins on a gas well or pipeline in northern Pennsylvania, Merlin Benner or one of his colleagues walks the land looking for timber rattlesnakes, a protected species.
Link: http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/gas-drilling-spurs-jobs-in-wildlife-software/b16d352007864479804ce8602bb058f0
All Counties with Producing Marcellus Shale Wells Adopt Impact Fee
Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center
April 13
(map)
[...]With the decision of the Bradford County Commissioners this week, all 27 counties with producing shale wells have agreed to assess the fee. Another 16 counties with no Marcellus Shale wells have also adopted the fee.
Link: http://pennbpc.org/all-counties-producing-marcellus-shale-wells-adopt-impact-fee
Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center
April 13
(map)
[...]With the decision of the Bradford County Commissioners this week, all 27 counties with producing shale wells have agreed to assess the fee. Another 16 counties with no Marcellus Shale wells have also adopted the fee.
Link: http://pennbpc.org/all-counties-producing-marcellus-shale-wells-adopt-impact-fee
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