Tuesday, January 8, 2013

PA Marcellus News Digest 1/8/13

PA Marcellus News Digest 
January 8, 2013

Releases

Dominion Cove Point Moves Closer to Liquefaction Project After Court Decision on Sierra Club Claims
Wallaby
PRNewswire
Jan 4
RICHMOND, Va.- Dominion (NYSE: D) will move forward with engineering, marketing and regulatory review processes after a declaratory judgment confirmed its right to build liquefaction facilities at its Dominion Cove Point facility on the Chesapeake Bay in Lusby, Md.
Link:
http://wallaby.telicon.com/PA/library/2013/2013010789.HTM

There’s Still Time to Enter - Win One of Three $25,000 Prizes in the Shale Gas Innovation Contest!
Wallaby
BusinessWire
Jan 7
STATE COLLEGE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Are you a researcher, entrepreneur, or innovator working in the shale gas space in Pennsylvania? The Ben Franklin Shale Gas Innovation and Commercialization Center
www.sgicc.org announced today the program will award a total of $75,000 in cash prizes for the three best shale gas-oriented innovations, new product ideas, or service concepts that are either in the development stage or recently launched.
Link:
http://wallaby.telicon.com/PA/library/2013/2013010758.HTM

Articles

Gas pipelines are coming; questions needed
Pottstown Mercury
Opinion
Jan 6
Pipelines are coming.
That’s a simple matter of practicality and economics. Drilling companies now tapping the Marcellus Shale reserves in north central and western Pennsylvania need a way to get natural gas to market.
Link:
http://www.pottsmerc.com/article/20130106/OPINION01/130109765/gas-pipelines-are-coming-questions-needed

Study: Natural Gas No Bridge to Zero Fossil Fuel Future
NPR State Impact
Susan Phillips
Jan 7
Link:
http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2013/01/07/study-natural-gas-no-bridge-to-zero-fossil-fuel-future/

The Birds-Eye View Of Marcellus
NPR State Impact
Scott Detrow
Jan 7
Link:
http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2013/01/07/the-birds-eye-view-of-marcellus/

Early report leaves out drinking water issue. Final analysis expected in 2014.
Times Leader
Kevin Begos, AP
Jan 7
PITTSBURGH — An ongoing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study on natural gas drilling and its potential for groundwater contamination has gotten tentative praise so far from both industry and environmental groups.
Link:
http://www.timesleader.com/stories/EPA-fracking-study-dodges-water-contamination,248587

Industry influence in universities’ shale gas research eyed
Pitt Trib
Debra Erdley
Jan 6
Industry and foundation-sponsored research, long a multimillion-dollar enterprise at U.S. universities, is under added scrutiny because of questions about shale gas studies that some universities discontinued or retracted.
Link:
http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/3196660-74/industry-research-gas#axzz2HJnuIMMr

Fracking film ‘Promised Land’ changes few minds in Western Pa.
Pitt Trib
Jason Cato
Jan 5
Drilling industry advocates and critics seized on the Friday opening of “Promised Land,” a film shot in Western Pennsylvania that focuses on natural gas drilling in small-town America.
Link:
http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/3232932-74/film-movie-drilling#axzz2HCdxWPZJ

EPA to release some fracking study sample results in weeks
Times-Tribune
Laura Legere
Jan 5
Sample results from case study sites in Pennsylvania and across the country are expected to be released in weeks as part of an ongoing federal study of the potential impact of hydraulic fracturing on water supplies.
Link:
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/gas-drilling/epa-to-release-some-fracking-study-sample-results-in-weeks-1.1425422

Matt Damon's anti-fracking film fails to deliver on its promise
Patriot-News
Donald Gilliland
Jan 4
Trailers for Matt Damon's anti-fracking feature film "Promised Land," which opened in Harrisburg Friday morning, suggested a taut moral drama focused on the front lines - the farmlands of Pennsylvania - of the Marcellus shale gas boom.
Link:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/01/matt_damons_anti-fracking_film.html

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