Stop the Frack Attack: Rally on July 25th – 28th in Washington, DC

June 28, 2012

Activities Set For July 25th thru 28th in D.C. A rush to drill is sweeping the United States. Across the country, the oil and gas industry is surging into new areas as quickly and cheaply as possible. And they have been using techniques like hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) long before we fully understand the extent of the [...]

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PA Attorney General says Probation too Lenient for Wastewater Dumper

June 27, 2012

The Pipeline web-site of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette is defined as “your source for Marcellus shale coverage.”   On June 26th, the article by Torsten Ove is entitled “State says probation for wastewater dumper too lenient.”   Excerpts from this article are as follows: The state has asked Greene County judge Farley Toothman to reconsider the probation [...]

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StateImpact Pennsylvania – The Secretary of PA-DEP Speaks Out

June 26, 2012

Michael Krancer, PA-DEP StateIm­pact Penn­syl­va­nia is a col­lab­o­ra­tion between WITF in Harrisburg,  WHYY  in Philadelphia and National Public Radio. Reporters Scott Detrow and Susan Phillips cover the fis­cal and envi­ron­men­tal impact of the boom­ing energy econ­omy in PA, with a focus on Mar­cel­lus Shale drilling. You can read their reports on the Internet, and hear them on pub­lic [...]

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Good News on Clean Energy

June 25, 2012

Juan Cole famously covers the Middle East with a sound knowledge of Arabic and Farsi, and a life time of study of Near East cultures. Recently he chose to write an article interesting to us called “Green Sunday: Good News on Clean Energy.” 1. Morocco is importing equipment from Germany, and plans to export large [...]

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Chesapeake Energy Settles Water Well Lawsuit in Bradford Co. PA for $1.6 M

June 24, 2012

Wyalusing, Bradford Co. PA Kevin Begos writing for the Associated Press, as reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 23rd, describes an open legal settlement in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, involving three families who experienced contaminated water wells as a result of Marcellus drilling by Chesapeake Energy. Jared McMicken of Wyalusing said the agreement reached Thursday [...]

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Marcellus Shale Gas Boom: Problems, Issues and Questions Persist

June 23, 2012

Dust at Marcellus Well Site At the Charleston Gazette in the State Capital of West Virginia, Ken Ward posts a blog called “Coal Tattoo.”  On June 22nd, he wrote about the recent speech of Senator Jay Rockefeller in the US Senate in Washington, DC.  While pointing out current challenges to coal utilization, Senator Rockefeller said: [...]

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Consider the Freshwater Crisis in America: Supply, Consumption & Fracking

June 22, 2012

Earth Thirst: Solving the Freshwater Crisis Scientific American has developed a web-site with a number of important articles dealing with the water crisis here in the United States. New approaches help keep our water supplies safe, but much remains to be done. One of these articles is entitled “How can we cope with the dirty [...]

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PA-DEP Investigates Methane Migration at Marcellus Wells in Tioga County

June 21, 2012

StateIm­pact Pennsylvania has reported on an active problem at a Shell drilling site in northcentral Pennsylvania…… The Pennsylvania Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion is inves­ti­gat­ing a poten­tial methane migra­tion prob­lem in Union Town­ship, Tioga County. A Shell spokes­woman says the company’s tests show “a very low haz­ard risk to peo­ple, veg­e­ta­tion, and fish in the imme­di­ate area,” [...]

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Substitute Speaker at WVU Extension Program Somewhat Off Message

June 20, 2012

WVU Extension Program NOTE:  The three letters below were published by the Morgantown Dominion Post on the editorial page, each being a “Letter to the Editor.”  The issue at hand involves a program of the WVU Extension Service in which a public health expert was to speak on “natural gas issues.” Instead, a promoter of [...]

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Rebirth of Chemical Industry in Texas due to Cheap Natural Gas and Ethane

June 19, 2012

Texas Chemical Industry Rebirth Celanese Plans Methanol Plant To Use Cheap Methane from Natural Gas Celanese Corp. (CE), the world’s largest maker of acetic acid, plans to produce methanol from natural gas, currently a low cost commodity, outside Houston in Texas, according Bloomberg News.  The chemical plant at the company’s site in Clear Lake, Texas, will [...]

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