RMG to Assist Aither in Raising Capital for Cracker Plant; Overstatement Corrected

January 12, 2012

Keith Pauley says he misspoke when he said “RMG will provide funding for the entire construction of this project” on Tuesday, according to a story in Wednesday’s Daily Mail. Pauley is President and CEO of Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research & Innovation Center (MATRIC).  He informed the South Charleston Economic Development Committee on Tuesday that Aither, a [...]

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Methane Contamination of Water in Susquehanna County PA

January 11, 2012

On January 9 the Scranton Times-Tribune reported that the water wells serving 3 homes in Lenox Township, Susquehanna County were contaminated with methane related to fracking.  The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said that a faulty well casing of a Cabot Oil and Gas well is to blame.  A fourth well is under investigation. Per [...]

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Health Experts Call for Pause in Fracking; Say Industry Should Fund Research

January 10, 2012

Fast on the heels of a call from a CDC official for more study on the health impacts of fracking, the Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE) called for the expansion of fracking to be halted until more research is performed.  The remarks were made at a conference sponsored by PSE and the [...]

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PA DEP’s Gas Well Records Contain Major Flaws says Post-Gazette

January 10, 2012

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette offers a web resource called Pipeline that ran a story on Sunday about the state of disarray of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s gas well records.  It was in the course of updating the interactive Marcellus map with well production data that a staffer found disturbing discrepancies in the data.  Per [...]

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Fire Destroys Chesapeake’s Nomac 17 Rig in Oklahoma

January 9, 2012

The following report comes from DRILLING AHEAD, Oilfield Drilling Forum, on January 5th:   Nomac Drilling Rig #17 drilled into a shallow gas pocket soon after spudding in at a drilling depth of 900′ northwest of Sweetwater, Oklahoma this evening around 6pm and burned to the ground. No injuries were reported. Workers stated that they encountered the abnormally pressurized zone at relief [...]

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The Gas Industry Wants the State of West Virginia to Approve Forced Pooling

January 8, 2012

Delegate Tim Manchin (D-Marion) was co-chair of the WV Select Committee on Marcellus Shale. In December, the Governor scrapped the Committee’s “Marcellus shale framework bill” in order to serve the last minute whims of the oil and gas industry.  A Marcellus bill with major modifications was passed. According to newspaper reports, Delegate Manchin is now [...]

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Fracking Will Contaminate Drinking Water, Warns New York D.E.C. Agent

January 6, 2012

A message from Paul Hetzler, a current employee and union representative at the Department for Environmental Conservation (DEC) in the State of New York has sounded alarm bells over the under-staffed agency’s ability to monitor the industry and to deal with any emergencies if the plan goes ahead. He said that allowing the controversial Marcellus [...]

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More Research Needed on Health Effects of Drilling/Fracking, Says CDC

January 5, 2012

A government scientist, Dr. Christopher Portier recently said, that much more research is needed to determine the possible impacts of shale gas drilling on human health and the environment, research that should include all the ways people can be exposed, such as through air, water, soil, plants and animals. Portier is director of the National [...]

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French Oil Company TOTAL Joins Chesapeake and EnerVest to Develop Utica Shale

January 4, 2012

As reported by Bloomberg News on January 4th  the largest oil company in France has acquired a $2.32 billion holding in Ohio’s Utica shale region from Chesapeake Energy Corp. and EnerVest Ltd.  TOTAL will gain a 25 percent stake in 619,000 acres of Utica shale in eastern Ohio which is rich in liquids as well [...]

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Enterprise Pipeline to Transport Ethane from PA, WV & OH

January 3, 2012

Anya Litvak of the Pittsburgh Business Times has written the following article for Energy, Inc.    You can access the full article here. Enterprise Product Partners has secured enough contracts to start building its 1,230-mile pipeline to carry ethane extracted from the Marcellus and Utica shales to Gulf Coast markets. There, the natural gas liquid will [...]

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