Friday, October 5, 2012

PA Marcellus News Digest 10/5/12

PA Marcellus News Digest
October 5, 2012

Articles

Firms eyeing overseas shale opportunities
Pittsburgh Business Times
Anya Litvak
Oct 5
There’s a lot of shale yet to be explored in southwestern Pennsylvania. But let’s not forget the rest of the world.
Link:
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/print-edition/2012/10/05/firms-eyeing-overseas-shale-opportunity.html

End misinformation about Marcellus drilling
Post-Gazette
Steve Forde, Vice President, Marcellus Shale Coalition
Letter to the Editor
Oct 5
Categorically false claims about the safe, tightly regulated development of job-creating American natural gas appeared in a recent story ("Let's Talk About Art: Photography and the Marcellus Shale Drilling Debate," Oct. 2). The suggestion that responsible natural gas development caused tap water to catch fire and that "the water was full of chemicals from a nearby fracking facility" could not be further from the truth.
Link:
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/letters/end-misinformation-about-marcellus-drilling-656243/

Lure of Marcellus Shale Riches Divides Family
WNEP
Dave Bohman
Oct 5
The natural gas drilling boom in Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania has made some lucky land owners quite a bit of money.
Link:
http://wnep.com/2012/10/05/lure-of-marcellus-shale-riches-divides-family/

PennFuture accuses DEP of permit dishonesty
Post-Gazette
Don Hopey
Oct 5
The state Department of Environmental Protection pulled a "switcheroo" by approving a permit that allows the spreading of chemical salts from Marcellus Shale hydraulic fracturing wastewater on roadways and fields statewide, according to an environmental organization's appeal of that permit.
Link:
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/region/pennfuture-accuses-dep-of-permit-dishonesty-656236/

Keystone Landfill seeks to double daily intake of drilling waste
Times-Tribune
Laura Legere
Oct 5
Keystone Sanitary Landfill wants permission to double the amount of natural gas drilling rock waste it accepts daily and allow drillers to haul the waste to the landfill 24 hours a day.
Link:
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/keystone-landfill-seeks-to-double-daily-intake-of-drilling-waste-1.1383602

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