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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

Associated Press         March 10, 2016
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 nations shale drilling and hydraulic fracturing boom.
The verdict in Scranton came at the end of a bitter lawsuit pitting homeowners in

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Science panel faults EPA fracking probe for excluding baseline water testing

Jon Hurdle       StateImpact PA             January 6, 2016
The Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark investigation into the impact of fracking on drinking water lacked baseline testing that would have made its results more illuminating, according to a scientific panel that assessed it, and independent analysts.
The Hydraulic Fracturing Research Advisory Panel, a unit of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB), published its evaluation of the EPA’s report on Jan. 7.
The panel said

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Fracking Sharply Reduces Property Values for Property Owners Who Use Well Water

Phys.org      December 15, 2015
Home values decline steeply when fracking occurs in neighborhoods that use well water, says new research from Duke University. But the outcome differs in neighborhoods that rely on piped water, where home values rise slightly after shale-gas drilling occurs.
The study, conducted in Pennsylvania, found that in areas using well water, home prices dropped by an average of $30,1676 when shale drilling occurred within a distance of 1.5 kilometers. Meanwhile, homes using piped water

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Oil Gas Drilling Impacts Public Drinking Water Supplies in Potter County

Melissa Troutman        Public Herald    September 25, 2015
Two public drinking water systems have been impacted and at least seven private water supplies contaminated due to ongoing pollution being caused by a natural gas fracking operation of JKLM Energy in Potter County, Pennsylvania.
An emergency public meeting occurred September 24th at 4PM at the Gunzburger Building in downtown Coudersport to inform the public. Public Herald was the only press agency in the meeting.
“It’s worse than we

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DEP Fines Range Resources $8.9 million for Marcellus Shale Gas Well

Don Hopey         Pittsburgh Post-Gazette     June 16, 2015
The state Department of Environmental Protection is seeking to fine Range Resources-Appalachia LLC $8.9 million for failing to fix a gas well in Lycoming County that it says began leaking methane and contaminating private water wells, streams and a pond in 2011 and continues to do so.
The civil penalty is the biggest ever assessed for a shale gas drilling-related environmental violation in Pennsylvania — more than

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New Technique Shows Shale-Drilling Additives in Drinking Water Taps Near Leak

Matthew Carroll        Penn State News             May 4, 2015
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Substances commonly used for drilling or extracting Marcellus shale gas foamed from the drinking water taps of three
Pennsylvania homes near a reported well-pad leak, according to new analysis from a team of scientists.
The researchers used a new analytical technique on samples from the homes and found a chemical compound, 2-BE, and an unidentified complex mixture of organic contaminants,

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Mapping Gas-Related Water Complaints

Susan Phillips           StateImpact PA     July 12, 2013

The Scranton Times-Tribune teamed up with Frac Tracker to map where gas-related water complaints originated across the state. The searchable map includes color-coded dots where the Department of Environmental Protection either connected the complaint to gas drilling, did not determine gas drilling was the cause, or did not make a determination. For the interactive map, click here.

Courtesy of The Scranton Times-Tribune and Frac Tracker

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DEP Drilling Records Reveals Water Damage, Murky Testing Methods PART 1

Laura Legere       Times Tribune       May 19, 2013
State environmental regulators determined that oil and gas development damaged the water supplies for at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to a cache of nearly 1,000 letters and enforcement orders written by Department of Environmental Protection officials and obtained by The Sunday Times.
The determination letters are sent to water supply owners who ask state inspectors to investigate whether oil and gas

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Fracking Brings Prosperity, Problems to Pennsylvania

Timothy B. Wheeler       The Baltimore Sun     March 9, 2013
DIMOCK, Pa. — —  Times are good these days at the Linde Corp., where despite a sluggish economy nationally, the company is on a hiring binge.
The construction company, based near Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania, has seen its workforce nearly triple over the past five years as it switched from helping to build big-box stores to laying miles of natural gas pipelines connecting hundreds of gas wells drilled in the rolling

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Abandoned Well May Have Caused Sullivan County Methane Leak

Scott Detrow   StateImpact PA / NPR   October 16, 2012 |
Last week, StateImpact Pennsylvania published a series on the dangers posed by the state’s estimated 200,000 abandoned oil and gas wells.
These unplugged holes create unobstructed pathways for natural gas to migrate to the surface, where it can pool in water wells, basements, and other enclosed spaces.
It turns out, Pennsylvania’s DEP has been dealing with the situation we laid out – an abandoned well possibly creating a pathway for

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