http://protecteaglesmere.org Protect Eagles Mere Alliance Sat, 29 Oct 2016 21:26:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.4 /2016/10/29/doctors-call-for-state-ban-on-drilling-and-fracking/ Sat, 29 Oct 2016 21:25:58 +0000 /?p=4471 The society’s 300-member House of Delegates unanimously approved a resolution at its annual meeting Sunday in Hershey calling for the fracking moratorium, registry and research.
Dr. Walter Tsou, past president of the American Public Health Association and the author of the resolution, noted that a similar resolution was rejected three years ago, but now “growing evidence has shown its increasing deleterious effects outweighs any economic benefit.”
/2016/10/29/fracking-linked-to-cancer-causing-chemicals-new-ysph-study-finds/ Sat, 29 Oct 2016 21:12:17 +0000 /?p=4466 Fracking is now common in the United States, currently occurring in 30 states, and with millions of people living within one mile of a fracking site. The study suggests that the presence of carcinogens involved in or released by hydraulic fracturing operations has the potential to ...]]> /2016/10/29/sunoco-gas-pipeline-ruptures-in-lycoming-county/ Sat, 29 Oct 2016 21:02:44 +0000 /?p=4461 Flash floods and landslides in north-central Pennsylvania have caused a Sunoco pipeline to rupture, spilling an estimated 55,000 gallons of gasoline into a tributary of Loyalsock creek in Lycoming County. Sunoco’s control center responded to the rupture at about 3 a.m. Friday morning, after a decrease in pressure was detected and residents noticed a strong smell of gasoline, according to Sunoco spokesman Jeff Shields. ...]]> /2016/10/04/portions-of-act-13-gas-drilling-law-struck-down-as-unconstitutional/ Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:53:09 +0000 /?p=4456





Provisions in the natural gas and oil drilling law known as Act 13 were ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The case, Robinson Township et al v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, was challenged primarily in four areas – a medical gag against physicians; a provision that only public water customers would be notified of spills or leaks at ...]]> /2016/09/26/pennsylvania-extends-drilling-moratorium-in-its-forests-for-5-years/ Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:03:42 +0000 /?p=4452 Pennsylvania’s five-year forest management plan nixes new oil and gas leasing and drilling in state forests and parks where the state controls subsurface mineral rights, and for the first time addresses climate change impacts.
The 234-page plan released last week by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources details an oil and gas management policy that supports the public lands drilling moratorium ordered by Gov. Tom Wolf ...]]> /2016/09/17/nearly-4000-tons-of-gas-drilling-waste-to-be-used-for-road-project/ Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:08:26 +0000 /?p=4445 Pennsylvania environmental regulators have green-lighted a proposal to use 3,950 tons of natural gas drilling waste for an experimental road construction project at a Lycoming County hunting club.
This approval marks the first time the waste– known as drill cuttings– can be re-purposed as construction material at an area that’s not an industrial site. The work is being done by Clean Earth, the same firm that backed out ...]]> /2016/07/21/study-links-fracking-to-asthma-attacks/ Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:06:23 +0000 /?p=4440 Another study has further cemented how fracking can be a human health hazard. People who live close to fracking wells have a higher risk of asthma attacks among asthma patients, according to a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study.
The paper, published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine, focused on Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale, one of the country’s most active and notorious fracking regions. In the years between ...]]> /2016/05/26/scientists-say-chemicals-from-fracking-wastewater-can-taint-fresh-water-nearby/ Thu, 26 May 2016 01:47:10 +0000 /?p=4429 The boom in unconventional drilling for natural gas known as fracking hit so fast that scientists have had to scramble to determine whether it’s safe for humans and the environment. Mostly they’re still trying to catch up.
But a study by the U.S. Geological Survey appears to have answered a critical question about the millions of gallons of chemical-laced water that are injected into the wells to fracture rocks and release ...]]> /2016/04/15/researchers-fly-over-8000-well-pads-and-find-hundreds-of-methane-leaks/ Fri, 15 Apr 2016 19:34:18 +0000 /?p=4424 As Pennsylvania’s natural gas production continues to expand, so does the possibility of potentially harmful methane emissions.
A new study from scientists in the Environmental Defense Fund’s Oil and Gas program examined the most common sites for methane leaks at oil and gas pads nationwide. A team of researchers partnered with Gas Leaks Inc., a company that uses infrared technology to inspect well pads, to fly a ...]]> /2016/03/11/a-federal-jury-has-awarded-two-couples-nearly-4-25-million-after-finding-one-of-the-largest-natural-gas-drillers-in-pa-polluted-their-wells/ Fri, 11 Mar 2016 02:43:33 +0000 /?p=4422 By MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Two couples were awarded nearly $4.25 million on Thursday after a federal jury found one of the largest natural gas producers in Pennsylvania was responsible for the contamination of their well water, capping a six-year odyssey that turned their sleepy village into a battleground over the nation’s shale drilling and hydraulic fracturing boom.
The verdict in Scranton came at the end of a bitter lawsuit pitting homeowners in ...]]>