citizensvoice.com/news/five-spills-reported-at-gas-pipeline-sites-1.1313538#axzz1uZEq4r00 By Elizabeth Skrapits (Staff Writer) Published: May 11, 2012 DALLAS TWP. – The state Department of Environmental Protection is monitoring a series of drilling mud spills at a natural gas pipeline installation. Chief Gathering LLC, recently bought out by PVR Partners, hired contractors to install a pipeline to connect natural gas wells in Susquehanna… Read more
www.therepublic.com/view/story/33c64dbf097042838eb0ad5d3aa8f9a5/PA–Drought-Fears/ HARRISBURG, Pa. — Just after Pennsylvanians dried off from one of the wettest years on record, professional weather-watchers are becoming concerned about a potential drought in the central and eastern parts of the state. The state’s Drought Task Force, which includes representatives of the Department of Environmental Protection, the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, the… Read more
Penn State Extension will be offering several training workshops for new Master Well Owner Volunteers in 2012. The six week online course will begin on February 6, 2012. Two Saturday training workshops will also be offered this spring in McKean and Butler Counties. More details on these training workshops, including a link to the online… Read more
www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4246 By Karl Blankenship Loss could heavily impact wildlife habitat, state’s ability to meet TMDL goal During the coming two decades, Pennsylvania could lose enough forest land to build a couple of large cities. The forest won’t be lost in a single large chunk, but as thousands of small sites that are cleared to drill… Read more
www.centredaily.com/2011/12/11/3016382/clearfield-county-well-to-hold.html By Cliff White cwhite@centredaily.com Posted: Dec 11, 2011 It’s an old story by now in Pennsylvania: local residents upset about a Marcellus Shale-related well proposed in their back yard. But there’s a difference in the well planned for Brady Township, Clearfield County. Instead of taking gas out of the ground, the well is intended… Read more
paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2011/11/free-pre-drilling-private-drinking.html Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Free Pre-Drilling Private Drinking Water Testing Offered In 8 Northcentral Counties The Headwaters Quality Drinking Water Project of the Headwaters Resource Conservation & Development Council is now providing low income families in Jefferson, Elk, Potter, Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton, Centre and McKean Counties with secure chain of custody water sample analyses… Read more
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110725/NEWS11/307250034/Coal-ash-taints-groundwater-at-TVA-sites-report-finds Inspector General report finds nine of TVA’s plant sites have contamination A new report says groundwater contamination from coal ash has been found at Gallatin and eight of the nine other Tennessee Valley Authority fossil power plant sites where testing is being done. Levels of toxic substances found at the Gallatin plant site in… Read more
http://citizensvoice.com/news/mapping-of-underground-water-pools-1.1164422#axzz1Pup6R8MH Published: June 21, 2011 Fears that the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas reserves might lead to anthracite mining era-style environmental degradation are well founded. This is especially true as it relates to protecting the sources of the water that we need to survive. It is ironic, then, to learn that the natural… Read more
http://citizensvoice.com/news/local-drilling-opponent-not-surprised-by-findings-1.1144256#axzz1LwpBiOFT Elizabeth Skrapits Published: May 10, 2011 Results of a study by scientists at Duke University showing a link between natural gas drilling and water well contamination come as no surprise to a local drilling opponent. Dr. Thomas Jiunta, a co-founder of the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition, said the study proves what environmentalists have been… Read more
http://www.propublica.org/article/scientific-study-links-flammable-drinking-water-to-fracking by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, May 9, 2011 For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire. The peer-reviewed study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, stands… Read more
