Study Links Fracking to Asthma Attacks
Lorraine Chow EcoWatch July 20, 2016
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 …
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 nation’s shale drilling and hydraulic fracturing boom.
The verdict in Scranton came at the end of a bitter lawsuit pitting homeowners in …
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 …
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 …
Williamsport, PA – Boom City Keeps Optimism As Drilling Slows
Andrew Maykuth Philadelphia Inquirer November 24. 2013
WILLIAMSPORT — The Marcellus Shale industry, which arrived in this northern Pennsylvania city five years ago and turned Williamsport into the seventh-fastest-growing area in the nation, appears to have lost some momentum.
Economic activity in this city affectionately known as “Billtown” has subsided noticeably in the last year as the pace of drilling natural gas wells slowed in response to low gas prices.
Statewide, exploration companies drilled 30 percent fewer wells in 2012 …
Locations of Pipelines of Concern
Mike Reuther Williamsport Sun-Gazette November 10, 2013
Lycoming County has been among the state’s busiest areas for natural gas activity in recent years, leading to the construction of pipelines, including more than 100 miles of gathering lines.
But some people are concerned that there has not been adequate oversight for how the infrastructure is regulated.
The issue, some say, raises plenty of red flags in a rural area where a pipeline failure could have a devastating effect on the environment …
Loyalsock State Forest Development Plan Released
Morgan Myers Williamsport Sun-Gazette October 16, 2013
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Tuesday released Anadarko Petroleum Corp.’s development plan for the Clarence Moore tract of the Loyalsock State Forest following a Right-To-Know Law request from the environmental group PennFuture.
“The proposal is more than a year old and does not in any way reflect a final decision or plan for the 25,000 acres known as the Clarence Moore lands,” DCNR Press Secretary Christina Novak said Oct. 15.
The …
Chesapeake Energy Layoffs Hit Bradford County
Marie Cusick StateImpact PA August 20, 2013
Chesapeake Energy’s corporate restructuring has lead to layoffs in the company’s busiest hub of its Pennsylvania operations– Bradford County.
Last week Chesapeake’s newly appointed CEO Doug Lawler announced the departure of four top executives. The company has also laid off staff in its Athens field office, according to sources familiar with the situation.
The company did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Several analysts contacted by StateImpact Pennsylvania declined to comment …
Marcellus M&A Cooling Off
Andrew Gretchko Pittsburgh Post-Gazette August 6, 2013
According to PwC’s quarterly tally of oil and gas deals, the Marcellus Shale isn’t as hot as it once was.
Of the 39 oil and gas deals that took place during the three months before June 30, only three involved the Marcellus. While this is on par with the first quarter of 2013, which also had a mere three deals – and is the mean average for 2010-2012 – the total deal value …
EPA Fines XTO Energy for Lycoming County Frack Water Spills
Andrew Gretchko Pittsburgh Post-Gazette July 19, 2013
“The Environmental Protection Agency has fined XTO Energy, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil, $100,000 for violating the federal Clean Water Act. The company’s drilling operations discharged between 6,300 and 57,373 gallons of waste water into the Susquehanna river system in Penn Township, Lycoming County. The waste water contained high levels of strontium, chloride, bromide, barium, and total dissolved solids and flowed continually for more than two months in the …
