Healthy Drinking Water and Healthy Homes The Healthy Homes, Healthy Communities, and Healthy Drinking Water Initiatives or Programs The Healthy Homes Program / Healthy Home Initiates “Environmental hazards in the home potentially harm millions of children each year. The Healthy Homes Program addresses multiple childhood diseases, exposures, and injuries that may originate in the home.… Read more
Next Thursday, May 2, the Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens or UDRBC will be holding a seminar in Lookout, Pennsylvania to talk landowner rights and more. Be there! The UDRBC, lead by Ned Lang and a large group of Upper Delaware River citizens will be conducting an in-depth discussion of natural gas exploration and development. … Read more
“Northeastern Pennsylvania gas companies went to Valley View High School in Lackawanna County to sponsor an energy fair introducing youth to energy careers. The growth and dedication that has been displayed between the natural gas industry and educational institutions over the years has been staggering. While much of that relationship has been amongst local area… Read more
Wilkes University is hosting a panel discussion entitled “Gas Pipelines in Northeastern PA: Challenges and Solutions” on Thursday, 19 March between 7:30 P.M. – 9:30 P.M. The session will be held in Stark Learning Center, Room 101. The event is free. The purpose of the session will be to offer the public a balanced perspective… Read more
New Well Owners Booklet Answers Many Questions When should you test your water? And what should you test it for? WILKES-BARRE, PA—October 1, 2012—Brian Oram, a professional geologist and soil scientist and founder of B.F. Environmental Consultants, announced today that his firm is making available “The Pennsylvania Guide for Groundwater for Private Well Owners: What… Read more
The Need to Work as a Community by Mr. Brian Oram, Professional Geologist The Water Research Center and B.F. Environmental Consultants Inc. I am not an insider in the natural gas development process, but I am a citizen and professional geologist from Pennsylvania. I grew-up in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in the middle of the largest Anthracite… Read more
www.tnonline.com/2012/apr/23/geologist-speak-jt-natural-gas-development Monday, April 23, 2012 Brian Oram, a professional geologist and soil scientist and founder of B.F. Environmental Consultants Inc., will be conducting a community informational session “Marcellus Shale 101” at the Mauch Chunk Museum on Broadway in Jim Thorpe, on Wednesday, April 25, at 7 p.m. “The work going on today in the area… Read more
www.timesleader.com/news/EPA_rsquo_s_Dimock_tests_divisive_03-06-2012.html Mar 6, 2012 Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. and its supporters are at odds with the federal agency. DIMOCK — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s testing of scores of water wells will give residents of this small Suquehanna County village a snapshot of the aquifer they rely on for drinking, cooking and bathing. The… Read more
www.riverreporteronline.com/news/14/2011/10/26/private-well-survey-and-database-planned-pa October 26, 2011 Brian Oram, a licensed professional geologist, offered this advice at a presentation in Honesdale, PA: “If you want to protect the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers, you need to protect where the water gets into the aquifer and that is in rural private wells.” In preparation for natural gas extraction and its… Read more
thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials-columns/guest-columnists/tackling-marcellus-shale-factor-1.1222023#axzz1bnmom3Ug Tackling Marcellus Shale factor BY BRIAN ORAM (GUEST COLUMNIST) Published: October 23, 2011 In 1795 settlers in Montrose discussed water that would “bubble and catch fire like black powder.” Later it was determined that Salt Spring contained methane gas. What is now Salt Spring State Park in Susquehanna County was once the site of… Read more
