Comments on: EPA Proposes New Air Pollution Regulations for ONG Industry https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/07/29/epa-proposes-new-air-pollution-regulations-for-ong-industry/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Me Daniels https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/07/29/epa-proposes-new-air-pollution-regulations-for-ong-industry/#comment-680 Me Daniels Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:38:38 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=2587#comment-680 Thank God for some monitoring , oversite and regulations. I hope that they are retroactive to the wells that are already producing in QWest Virginia. I did not see any rules that will require Gas Companies to pay for additional State inspectors. One person wsho spoke at the meeting in Morgantown suggested that every well should have an inspector. I spoke on having training, experience and education sufficient to understand what was going on in the drilling, fracking, etc so that the inspectors could adequately oversee the situation. This is a good start and I'm sure that there will be many more comments. Meg D. Thank God for some monitoring , oversite and regulations. I hope that they are retroactive to the wells that are already producing in QWest Virginia.
I did not see any rules that will require Gas Companies to pay for additional State inspectors. One person wsho spoke at the meeting in Morgantown suggested that every well should have an inspector. I spoke on having training, experience and education sufficient to understand what was going on in the drilling, fracking, etc so that the inspectors could adequately oversee the situation. This is a good start and I’m sure that there will be many more comments. Meg D.

]]> By: Dee Fulton https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/07/29/epa-proposes-new-air-pollution-regulations-for-ong-industry/#comment-674 Dee Fulton Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:50:11 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=2587#comment-674 The Achilles heel of the proposed amendments shows up under the paragraph on page 6 titled REDUCING COMPLIANCE BURDENS. "The proposed exemption would apply to sources covered by the NSPS that are not major sources and that do not obtain Title V permits for another reason..... VOC sources are considered "non-major" if they emit less than 100 tons per year.....That emissions threshold is lower in certain nonattainment areas, however." The Wetzel County Action Group filed a legal appeal to the WV Air Quality Board (AQB)to consider compressors and gas wells collectively so as to be covered by Clean Air Act rules. From the FrackCheckWV post by Duane Nichols on May 21, "The AQB said that insufficient evidence had been presented to support a claim that the new compressors stations and/or the wells feeding them were in fact “contiguous or adjacent”, as defined by the legal definitions of these terms under the Clean Air Act in spite of existing pipelines interconnecting them." The Achilles heel of the proposed amendments shows up under the paragraph on page 6 titled REDUCING COMPLIANCE BURDENS. “The proposed exemption would apply to sources covered by the NSPS that are not major sources and that do not obtain Title V permits for another reason….. VOC sources are considered “non-major” if they emit less than 100 tons per year…..That emissions threshold is lower in certain nonattainment areas, however.”

The Wetzel County Action Group filed a legal appeal to the WV Air Quality Board (AQB)to consider compressors and gas wells collectively so as to be covered by Clean Air Act rules. From the FrackCheckWV post by Duane Nichols on May 21, “The AQB said that insufficient evidence had been presented to support a claim that the new compressors stations and/or the wells feeding them were in fact “contiguous or adjacent”, as defined by the legal definitions of these terms under the Clean Air Act in spite of existing pipelines interconnecting them.”

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