PA Marcellus News Digest
February 21, 2013
Specials: Shale Play Water Management Marcellus & Utica 2013
Link: http://www.shale-play-water-marcellus-utica.com/?goback=%2Egde_4735941_member_206035978Releases
Link: http://www.shale-play-water-marcellus-utica.com/?goback=%2Egde_4735941_member_206035978Releases
Video: Natural gas exploration concerns Beaver County residents: http://www.timesonline.com/news/technology/video-natural-gas-exploration-concerns-beaver-county-residents/youtube_8a5b4ef9-e8e2-5a5d-8fdd-856393479230.html
Articles
Pipeline Protests Shift From Courts to Direct Action
NPR State Impact
Susan Phillips
Feb 19
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2013/02/19/pipeline-protests-shift-from-courts-to-direct-action/
NPR State Impact
Susan Phillips
Feb 19
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2013/02/19/pipeline-protests-shift-from-courts-to-direct-action/
Hospitals to study drilling and health
Geisinger is part of first large-scale study of Marcellus Shale’s medical impact.
Times Leader
Bill O'Boyle
Feb 19
DANVILLE – Geisinger Health System will team with two other regional health systems to study the health impacts of Marcellus Shale gas drilling in what’s said to be the first large-scale, “scientifically rigorous assessment” of the health effects of natural-gas production.
Link: http://www.timesleader.com/stories/Hospitals-to-study-drilling-and-health,265425?category_id=487&town_id=1&sub_type=stories
Geisinger is part of first large-scale study of Marcellus Shale’s medical impact.
Times Leader
Bill O'Boyle
Feb 19
DANVILLE – Geisinger Health System will team with two other regional health systems to study the health impacts of Marcellus Shale gas drilling in what’s said to be the first large-scale, “scientifically rigorous assessment” of the health effects of natural-gas production.
Link: http://www.timesleader.com/stories/Hospitals-to-study-drilling-and-health,265425?category_id=487&town_id=1&sub_type=stories
The well pad: Determining location, construction, stabilizing the environment
Daily Review
Johnny Williams
Feb 19
Editor's Note: This is the second part in a six-part series giving a step-by-step look at the process that a natural gas company conducts to extract natural gas from the Marcellus Shale. The series is a collaboration with Chesapeake Energy and the company's methods of operations are not meant to reflect the operations of other natural gas companies.
Link: http://thedailyreview.com/news/the-well-pad-determining-location-construction-stabilizing-the-environment-1.1446339
Daily Review
Johnny Williams
Feb 19
Editor's Note: This is the second part in a six-part series giving a step-by-step look at the process that a natural gas company conducts to extract natural gas from the Marcellus Shale. The series is a collaboration with Chesapeake Energy and the company's methods of operations are not meant to reflect the operations of other natural gas companies.
Link: http://thedailyreview.com/news/the-well-pad-determining-location-construction-stabilizing-the-environment-1.1446339
Marcellus shale helps Pennsylvania farmers
Patriot-News Op-Ed
John Krohn (Energy In Depth)
Feb 19
For decades Paul Harvey worked to help American’s understand the “Rest of the Story.” For Harvey that was his passion, connecting American’s with facts they wouldn’t have otherwise known. Harvey’s essence was recently featured in a Super Bowl ad which highlighted his 1977 speech “So God Made a Farmer.”
Link: http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/02/op-ed_marcellus_shale_helps_pennsylvania_farmers.html
Patriot-News Op-Ed
John Krohn (Energy In Depth)
Feb 19
For decades Paul Harvey worked to help American’s understand the “Rest of the Story.” For Harvey that was his passion, connecting American’s with facts they wouldn’t have otherwise known. Harvey’s essence was recently featured in a Super Bowl ad which highlighted his 1977 speech “So God Made a Farmer.”
Link: http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/02/op-ed_marcellus_shale_helps_pennsylvania_farmers.html
Resolve key gas question
Times-Tribune editorial
Feb 19
Pennsylvania plunged blindly into the deep-well natural gas industry about six years ago. State officials anticipated economic rewards but had little but the industry's assurances that the technology and materials used in the industrial processes would not harm the state's environment and public health.
Link: http://thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/resolve-key-gas-question-1.1446325
Times-Tribune editorial
Feb 19
Pennsylvania plunged blindly into the deep-well natural gas industry about six years ago. State officials anticipated economic rewards but had little but the industry's assurances that the technology and materials used in the industrial processes would not harm the state's environment and public health.
Link: http://thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/resolve-key-gas-question-1.1446325
Pipeline protesters locking themselves to Delaware Forest gate
Pocono Record
Feb 18
Two pipeline protesters this morning engaged in an act of civil disobedience by locking themselves through the Delaware State Forest gate that is being used by pipeline workers to clear-cut trees for the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Northeast Upgrade construction, according to an organization that opposes the project.
Link: http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130218/NEWS/130219796
Pocono Record
Feb 18
Two pipeline protesters this morning engaged in an act of civil disobedience by locking themselves through the Delaware State Forest gate that is being used by pipeline workers to clear-cut trees for the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Northeast Upgrade construction, according to an organization that opposes the project.
Link: http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130218/NEWS/130219796
Blackhawk developing Marcellus curriculum
Times Online
Bill Utterback
Feb 18
CHIPPEWA TWP. -- The Blackhawk School District has probably never sent its foreign language teachers to Europe or its world history faculty to Machu Picchu, but district educators have visited Washington County.
Link: http://www.timesonline.com/news/local_news/blackhawk-developing-marcellus-curriculum/article_cd4f9c1a-9ef4-54f1-8f3f-a17526eb1aa4.html
Times Online
Bill Utterback
Feb 18
CHIPPEWA TWP. -- The Blackhawk School District has probably never sent its foreign language teachers to Europe or its world history faculty to Machu Picchu, but district educators have visited Washington County.
Link: http://www.timesonline.com/news/local_news/blackhawk-developing-marcellus-curriculum/article_cd4f9c1a-9ef4-54f1-8f3f-a17526eb1aa4.html
$1 million grant for Pa. gas drilling health study
Times Online
Feb 18
[...] Geisinger Health System said Monday that the Degenstein Foundation had awarded the money to help underwrite what it called a "large-scale, scientifically rigorous assessment" of the drilling.
Link: http://www.timesonline.com/news/state/million-grant-for-pa-gas-drilling-health-study/article_6e689802-79f9-11e2-adaa-001a4bcf6878.html
Times Online
Feb 18
[...] Geisinger Health System said Monday that the Degenstein Foundation had awarded the money to help underwrite what it called a "large-scale, scientifically rigorous assessment" of the drilling.
Link: http://www.timesonline.com/news/state/million-grant-for-pa-gas-drilling-health-study/article_6e689802-79f9-11e2-adaa-001a4bcf6878.html
Public given chance to ask Consol Energy about $500 million airport drilling
About 300 people attend, one day before Allegheny County Council vote
WTAE
Andrew Del Greco
Feb 19
The Findlay Township Activity Center was bustling Monday during an open house attended by about 300 people. A potentially massive deal to drill for natural gas and oil at the Pittsburgh International Airport can have that effect.
Link: http://www.wtae.com/news/local/Public-given-chance-to-ask-Consol-Energy-about-500-million-airport-drilling/-/9681086/18978152/-/r6v4r2/-/index.html
About 300 people attend, one day before Allegheny County Council vote
WTAE
Andrew Del Greco
Feb 19
The Findlay Township Activity Center was bustling Monday during an open house attended by about 300 people. A potentially massive deal to drill for natural gas and oil at the Pittsburgh International Airport can have that effect.
Link: http://www.wtae.com/news/local/Public-given-chance-to-ask-Consol-Energy-about-500-million-airport-drilling/-/9681086/18978152/-/r6v4r2/-/index.html
Local Farmers Becoming Marcellus Millionaires
CBS local Pittsburgh
Andy Sheehan
Feb 18
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — All of his life, Mike Krajacic has coaxed a hard scrabble existence out of this 140-acre dairy farm in Avella, Washington County.
Link: http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/02/18/local-farmers-becoming-marcellus-millionaires/
CBS local Pittsburgh
Andy Sheehan
Feb 18
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — All of his life, Mike Krajacic has coaxed a hard scrabble existence out of this 140-acre dairy farm in Avella, Washington County.
Link: http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/02/18/local-farmers-becoming-marcellus-millionaires/
Briny water flows into area streams
Herald-Standard
Natasha Khan
Feb 18
EAST BETHLEHEM TWP. — In the January cold, Ken Dufalla’s hands, chapped and raw, shake as he grips a 5-foot metal pole with a small, stained, plastic container attached and dunks it into the icy, orange-colored water rushing into Ten Mile Creek.
Link: http://www.heraldstandard.com/news/local_news/briny-water-flows-into-area-streams/article_cb2ec500-6d04-5a27-992b-6f475fd6d027.html
Herald-Standard
Natasha Khan
Feb 18
EAST BETHLEHEM TWP. — In the January cold, Ken Dufalla’s hands, chapped and raw, shake as he grips a 5-foot metal pole with a small, stained, plastic container attached and dunks it into the icy, orange-colored water rushing into Ten Mile Creek.
Link: http://www.heraldstandard.com/news/local_news/briny-water-flows-into-area-streams/article_cb2ec500-6d04-5a27-992b-6f475fd6d027.html
We must remove barriers to oil and gas exploration, development
CDT
Karen A. Harbert
Opinion
Feb 18
Can increasing American energy exploration improve our economy?
Yes. But more to the point, it’s already happening.
Energy — and the jobs and growth it will drive — is the foundation for our economic recovery.
Link: http://www.centredaily.com/2013/02/18/3506597/column-we-must-remove-barriers.html
CDT
Karen A. Harbert
Opinion
Feb 18
Can increasing American energy exploration improve our economy?
Yes. But more to the point, it’s already happening.
Energy — and the jobs and growth it will drive — is the foundation for our economic recovery.
Link: http://www.centredaily.com/2013/02/18/3506597/column-we-must-remove-barriers.html
Leading Democrat rips DEP spokeswoman
Observer-Reporter
Brad Hundt
Editorial
Feb 15
A leading Democrat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has taken a spokeswoman for the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to task for her characterization of a hearing scheduled Tuesday in Washington.
Link: http://www.observer-reporter.com/article/20130215/NEWS01/130219454#.USaTGh1weSp
Observer-Reporter
Brad Hundt
Editorial
Feb 15
A leading Democrat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has taken a spokeswoman for the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to task for her characterization of a hearing scheduled Tuesday in Washington.
Link: http://www.observer-reporter.com/article/20130215/NEWS01/130219454#.USaTGh1weSp
Humans are bad for environment
Observer-Reporter
Chris Koger
Opinion
Feb 15
[...]Fracking may not be 100 percent foolproof, but natural gas is a lot better for the environment than coal or gasoline or oil as an energy source. It’s also cleaner and cheaper. It’s also produced here, which means many new job opportunities. It brings much-needed income to municipalities and gives an economic boost to an area of the United States that has needed one desperately since the death of the steel industry.
Link: http://www.observer-reporter.com/article/20130215/OPINION02/130219527#.USaRyx1weSp
Observer-Reporter
Chris Koger
Opinion
Feb 15
[...]Fracking may not be 100 percent foolproof, but natural gas is a lot better for the environment than coal or gasoline or oil as an energy source. It’s also cleaner and cheaper. It’s also produced here, which means many new job opportunities. It brings much-needed income to municipalities and gives an economic boost to an area of the United States that has needed one desperately since the death of the steel industry.
Link: http://www.observer-reporter.com/article/20130215/OPINION02/130219527#.USaRyx1weSp
Daughterty residents unhappy with lack of progress of drilling ordinance
Times Online
Abdul Al-Nakhli
Feb 14
DAUGHERTY TWP. — A lack of ordinances regarding gas drilling in Daugherty Township could be driving some companies away, and residents want answers.
Link: http://www.timesonline.com/news/local_news/daughterty-residents-unhappy-with-lack-of-progress-of-drilling-ordinance/article_20a237ea-d7cb-539b-82a6-4b8df06e56f4.html
Times Online
Abdul Al-Nakhli
Feb 14
DAUGHERTY TWP. — A lack of ordinances regarding gas drilling in Daugherty Township could be driving some companies away, and residents want answers.
Link: http://www.timesonline.com/news/local_news/daughterty-residents-unhappy-with-lack-of-progress-of-drilling-ordinance/article_20a237ea-d7cb-539b-82a6-4b8df06e56f4.html
Allegheny council committee approves drilling at airport
Pitt Trib
Timothy Puko
Feb 14
Gas drilling at Pittsburgh International Airport could get final approval next week because an Allegheny County Council committee on Thursday voted in support of a deal with Consol Energy Inc.
Link: http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/3485960-74/airport-county-council#axzz2KzwhgrUI
Pitt Trib
Timothy Puko
Feb 14
Gas drilling at Pittsburgh International Airport could get final approval next week because an Allegheny County Council committee on Thursday voted in support of a deal with Consol Energy Inc.
Link: http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/3485960-74/airport-county-council#axzz2KzwhgrUI
Legislation targets natural gas pipeline projects
Daily Local
Sara Mosqueda-Fernandez
Feb 14
WEST CHESTER — State Sen. Andy Dinniman has introduced three bills to protect natural resources and residents’ properties against harm from the area’s growing number of natural gas pipeline projects.
Link: http://www.dailylocal.com/article/20130214/NEWS01/130219782/legislation-targets-natural-gas-pipeline-projects
Daily Local
Sara Mosqueda-Fernandez
Feb 14
WEST CHESTER — State Sen. Andy Dinniman has introduced three bills to protect natural resources and residents’ properties against harm from the area’s growing number of natural gas pipeline projects.
Link: http://www.dailylocal.com/article/20130214/NEWS01/130219782/legislation-targets-natural-gas-pipeline-projects
Fracking, reconsidered: A conventional gas boom would release even more pollutants
Post-Gazette
Brian Lutz
Feb 15
There is a perception that the hydraulic fracturing of rock to discharge natural gas produces inordinate volumes of wastewater. After all, millions of gallons of water mixed with chemicals are pumped at high pressure into the ground and a considerable portion of this fluid rushes back to the surface when the pressure is released.
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/fracking-reconsidered-a-conventional-gas-boom-would-release-even-more-pollutants-675514/
Post-Gazette
Brian Lutz
Feb 15
There is a perception that the hydraulic fracturing of rock to discharge natural gas produces inordinate volumes of wastewater. After all, millions of gallons of water mixed with chemicals are pumped at high pressure into the ground and a considerable portion of this fluid rushes back to the surface when the pressure is released.
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/fracking-reconsidered-a-conventional-gas-boom-would-release-even-more-pollutants-675514/
Marcellus Shale gas boom expected to slow in 2013
York Dispatch
Kevin Begos, AP
Feb 15
PITTSBURGH—Energy experts say the boom in Marcellus Shale natural gas production will slow this year but not because there's any lack of supply.
The slowdown is happening because drillers are waiting for pipelines to expand, new markets to develop and wholesale prices to rise.
Link: http://www.yorkdispatch.com/penn/ci_22596368/marcellus-shale-gas-boom-expected-slow-2013
York Dispatch
Kevin Begos, AP
Feb 15
PITTSBURGH—Energy experts say the boom in Marcellus Shale natural gas production will slow this year but not because there's any lack of supply.
The slowdown is happening because drillers are waiting for pipelines to expand, new markets to develop and wholesale prices to rise.
Link: http://www.yorkdispatch.com/penn/ci_22596368/marcellus-shale-gas-boom-expected-slow-2013
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