PA Marcellus News Digest 4/25/12

PA Marcellus News Digest

April 25, 2012

Release

Constitution Pipeline Company Announces Customer Agreements
Release
April 24
TULSA, Okla.- BUSINESS WIRE--Constitution Pipeline Company, LLC, a joint development between Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE: WPZ) and Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE: COG), today announced the execution of precedent agreements for a proposed 121-mile pipeline designed to connect natural gas production in northeastern Pennsylvania with northeastern markets by spring 2015.
Link: http://wallaby.telicon.com/PA/library/2012/2012042457.HTM

Articles

Fractivists Aim for Elected Office
NPR State Impact
Susan Phillips
April 24
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/04/24/fractivists-aim-for-elected-office/

Where Does Pennsylvania’s Drilling Waste Go?
NPR State Impact
Scott Detrow
April 25
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/04/25/where-does-pennsylvanias-drilling-waste-go/

What Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Nominees Are Saying About Drilling
NPR State Impact
Scott Detrow
April 25
Link: https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/04/25/what-pennsylvanias-attorney-general-nominees-are-saying-about-drilling/

Study suggests shale-gas development causing rapid landscape change
Farm and Dairy
April 24
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — As the Marcellus natural gas play unfolds in Pennsylvania, several trends are becoming increasingly clear, according to Penn State researchers.
First, most of the development is occurring on private land, and the greatest amount of development falls within the Susquehanna River basin.
Link: http://www.farmanddairy.com/news/study-suggests-shale-gas-development-causing-rapid-landscape-change/36642.html

Mine water eyed for fracking use
Observer-Reporter
Christie Campbell
April 25
Could the gas-extraction industry help solve the problem of mine drainage water in abandoned coal mines?
The possibility of using that water for natural gas drilling is being studied by the gas-extraction industry and the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Link: http://www.observer-reporter.com/or/story11/04-25-2012-marcellus-mine-water

Augustine to aid coalition
Times Leader
Matt Hughes
April 25
CANONSBURG – The Marcellus Shale Coalition has named John L. Augustine III, formerly of the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business & Industry, its community outreach coordinator for Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Link: http://www.timesleader.com/stories/Augustine-to-aid-coalition,143094?category_id=103&town_id=1&sub_type=stories

The 'cracker' plant and environmental protection are not mutually exclusive
Post-Gazette
LEO W. GERARD, International President United Steelworkers
Opinion
April 25
A recent Post-Gazette article "Shell Plant Attracts Watchful Eyes" (March 26) raised the troubling suggestion of resistance to the proposed construction of a petrochemical "cracker" plant in Beaver County.
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/letters/the-cracker-plant-and-environmental-protection-are-not-mutually-exclusive-632950/

Act 13 is good law
Butler Eagle
Sen. Mary Jo White, chairman
Pennsylvania Senate Environmental
Resources and Energy Committee
April 24
The Butler Eagle published an article recently regarding Act 13, known as the Impact Fee. Regrettably, I found the article to be filled with misleading and factually incorrect statements, most of which were based on a misunderstanding of the new law.
Link: http://www.butlereagle.com/article/20120424/EDITORIAL02/704249853/-1/Editorial