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Subject: [PA-OIL-GAS-COMM] PA Marcellus News Digest 11/13/12
PA Marcellus News Digest
November 13, 2012
November 13, 2012
Articles
Krancer vs. White
Herald Standard
Rachel Morgan
Nov 13
State Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer last week responded in two separate letters to allegations from state Rep. Jesse White, D-Cecil Township, that the DEP wasn’t releasing the full results of their residential water testing results, claiming the unreported metals were unrelated to Marcellus drilling activity.
Link: http://www.heraldstandard.com/news/local_news/krancer-vs-white/article_63d37dd9-a60e-5c25-8bf3-f83a7c88f44a.html
Herald Standard
Rachel Morgan
Nov 13
State Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer last week responded in two separate letters to allegations from state Rep. Jesse White, D-Cecil Township, that the DEP wasn’t releasing the full results of their residential water testing results, claiming the unreported metals were unrelated to Marcellus drilling activity.
Link: http://www.heraldstandard.com/news/local_news/krancer-vs-white/article_63d37dd9-a60e-5c25-8bf3-f83a7c88f44a.html
Photo Gallery, Story: Protesters oppose Marcellus drilling in North Beaver
New Castle News
Debbie Wachter
Nov 13
NEW CASTLE — Demonstrators who lined Route 551 Monday included a woman dressed like Mother Nature and holding an “SOS Fracking” sign.
Link: http://www.ncnewsonline.com/topstories/x880896208/Photo-Gallery-Story-Protesters-oppose-Marcellus-drilling-in-North-Beaver
New Castle News
Debbie Wachter
Nov 13
NEW CASTLE — Demonstrators who lined Route 551 Monday included a woman dressed like Mother Nature and holding an “SOS Fracking” sign.
Link: http://www.ncnewsonline.com/topstories/x880896208/Photo-Gallery-Story-Protesters-oppose-Marcellus-drilling-in-North-Beaver
Environmentalists to appeal ANF drilling ruling
San Francisco Chronicle
AP
Nov 13
ERIE, Pa.— The Sierra Club and the Allegheny Defense Project have filed notice that they're appealing a federal judge's September ruling that says the U.S. Forest Service can't regulate gas or oil drilling or other efforts to access mineral rights in the Allegheny National Forest.
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Environmentalists-to-appeal-ANF-drilling-ruling-4033427.php
San Francisco Chronicle
AP
Nov 13
ERIE, Pa.— The Sierra Club and the Allegheny Defense Project have filed notice that they're appealing a federal judge's September ruling that says the U.S. Forest Service can't regulate gas or oil drilling or other efforts to access mineral rights in the Allegheny National Forest.
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Environmentalists-to-appeal-ANF-drilling-ruling-4033427.php
Study Finds Air Pollutants Near Drilling Sites
NPR State Impact
Susan Phillips
Nov 13
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/11/13/study-finds-air-pollutants-near-drilling-sites/
NPR State Impact
Susan Phillips
Nov 13
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/11/13/study-finds-air-pollutants-near-drilling-sites/
Pennsylania Adds Disclaimer To Its Drilling Database
NPR State Impact
Scott Detrow
Nov 13
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/11/13/pennsylania-adds-disclaimer-to-its-drilling-database/
NPR State Impact
Scott Detrow
Nov 13
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/11/13/pennsylania-adds-disclaimer-to-its-drilling-database/
NPR: Across PA, Abandoned Wells Litter The Land
NPR State Impact
Scott Detrow
Nov 13
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/11/13/npr-across-pa-abandoned-wells-litter-the-land/
NPR State Impact
Scott Detrow
Nov 13
Link: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/11/13/npr-across-pa-abandoned-wells-litter-the-land/
Pa. booms and busts
Observer-Reporter
Michael Bradwell
Nov 13
PITTSBURGH – A group of regional scholars, community development organizations and industry representatives opened a first-ever twoday symposium examining the boom and bust nature of energy extraction and the impacts it has on practically every aspect of life in Western Pennsylvania.
Link: http://www.observer-reporter.com/or/story11/11-13-energy-boom
Observer-Reporter
Michael Bradwell
Nov 13
PITTSBURGH – A group of regional scholars, community development organizations and industry representatives opened a first-ever twoday symposium examining the boom and bust nature of energy extraction and the impacts it has on practically every aspect of life in Western Pennsylvania.
Link: http://www.observer-reporter.com/or/story11/11-13-energy-boom
Bessemer residents protest Shell drilling on local woman's farm
Post-Gazette
Emily Petsko
Nov 12
More than 50 residents from Bessemer, Pa. and members of the Shadbush Environmental Justice Collective have joined together today to protest gas drilling that is underway 4,000 ft. from a local woman’s farm.
Link: http://pipeline.post-gazette.com/news/archives/24909-bessemer-residents-protest-shell-drilling-on-local-woman-s-farm
Post-Gazette
Emily Petsko
Nov 12
More than 50 residents from Bessemer, Pa. and members of the Shadbush Environmental Justice Collective have joined together today to protest gas drilling that is underway 4,000 ft. from a local woman’s farm.
Link: http://pipeline.post-gazette.com/news/archives/24909-bessemer-residents-protest-shell-drilling-on-local-woman-s-farm
Pollution persists in Allegheny River in W. Pa.
CDT
Kevin Begos, AP
Nov 12
PITTSBURGH — High levels of an ultra-salty compound that could be linked to oil and gas drilling persist in the Allegheny River's Pittsburgh-area watershed, while the levels declined in the nearby Monongahela River, recent research shows.
Link: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/11/12/3400524/w-pa-rivers-show-different-pollution.html
CDT
Kevin Begos, AP
Nov 12
PITTSBURGH — High levels of an ultra-salty compound that could be linked to oil and gas drilling persist in the Allegheny River's Pittsburgh-area watershed, while the levels declined in the nearby Monongahela River, recent research shows.
Link: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/11/12/3400524/w-pa-rivers-show-different-pollution.html
Study finds lower bromide levels in Mon, but not in Allegheny
Post-Gazette
Don Hopey
Nov 13
Salty bromide concentrations in the Monongahela River, which had risen in 2009 and 2010 due, at least in part, to discharges of Marcellus Shale gas drilling wastewater by sewage treatment plants, returned to normal levels in 2011 and this year, according to a Carnegie Mellon University river monitoring study.
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/region/study-finds-lower-bromide-levels-in-mon-but-not-in-allegheny-661870/
Post-Gazette
Don Hopey
Nov 13
Salty bromide concentrations in the Monongahela River, which had risen in 2009 and 2010 due, at least in part, to discharges of Marcellus Shale gas drilling wastewater by sewage treatment plants, returned to normal levels in 2011 and this year, according to a Carnegie Mellon University river monitoring study.
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/region/study-finds-lower-bromide-levels-in-mon-but-not-in-allegheny-661870/
Audubon Society of Western Pa. weighs whether to lease land for gas drilling
Post-Gazette
Nov 12
Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania is a major landowner and therefore a focus of interest for the gas industry. The board of the organization, a microcosm of the larger society, thoughtfully examined the issue from different perspectives to determine whether or not it should lease its land for gas drilling. What will Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania do next time that the landman knocks at their door asking them to sign a lease? Watch this episode of Gas Rush Stories and find out.
Link: http://pipeline.post-gazette.com/news/archives/24908-audubon-society-of-western-pa-weighs-whether-to-lease-land-for-gas-drilling
Post-Gazette
Nov 12
Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania is a major landowner and therefore a focus of interest for the gas industry. The board of the organization, a microcosm of the larger society, thoughtfully examined the issue from different perspectives to determine whether or not it should lease its land for gas drilling. What will Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania do next time that the landman knocks at their door asking them to sign a lease? Watch this episode of Gas Rush Stories and find out.
Link: http://pipeline.post-gazette.com/news/archives/24908-audubon-society-of-western-pa-weighs-whether-to-lease-land-for-gas-drilling
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