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Perilous Pathways: Abandoned Wells Don’t Factor Into Pennsylvania’s...
Scott Detrow / StateImpact PennsylvaniaShell subsidiary East Resources's permit application for a Marcellus Shale well in Union Township, Tioga County When Shell subsidiary East Resources filled out a...
View ArticleA New Policy For Dealing With Drilling-Related Water Contamination
Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection is changing the way it handles Marcellus Shale-related water contamination cases, according to the Post-Gazette: [The new policy has] department...
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Abandoned Well May Have Caused Sullivan County Methane Leak
Click on the image to view a map of Pennsylvania's known abandoned wells Last week, StateImpact Pennsylvania published a series on the dangers posed by the state’s estimated 200,000 abandoned oil and...
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Industry Issues Guidance on Methane Migration
Scott Detrow / StateImpact PennsylvaniaA Leroy Township, Bradford County resident lights a sample of methane gas on fire. The gas has been bubbling into puddles and creeks for more than two...
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Perilous Pathways: Hunting Down Pennsylvania’s Abandoned Wells
Scott Detrow / StateImpact PennsylvaniaAn abandoned well in McKean County There are likely 200,000 abandoned oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania. At best, we know where about four percent of them are....
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Shale Country Restaurant Provides Haven from Polarized Gas Debate
Lindsay Lazarski / WHYYThe Summerhouse Grill in Montrose, Pa. When you drive north on route 29 in Susquehanna County, just before you hit the traffic light in downtown Montrose, sits a restaurant...
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Hollywood’s Matt Damon Takes on Fracking in ‘Promised Land’
Alberto E. Rodriquez / Getty ImagesActor John Krasinski, director Gus Van Sant and actor Matt Damon arrive at the premiere of "Promised Land" in Los Angeles, California. Fracking has made it to the big...
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DePasquale Prepares To Audit PA’s Department of Environmental Protection
Mary Wilson / WITFAuditor General Eugene DePasquale and his family at Tuesday's swearing-in ceremony. Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection may want to start getting its ledgers in...
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Rendell Downplays Role in Range Contamination Case
Chris Kleponis / Getty ImagesFormer Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell says gas driller Range Resources never authorized him to speak on their behalf to the EPA about a...
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Environmentalists Call on EPA to Revisit Range Contamination Case
Kim Paynter / WHYYA drill rig rises above a farm in Susquehanna County, Pa. Dozens of environmental groups have written to the EPA’s inspector general, asking him to investigate how and why the EPA...
View ArticleDEP Says Gas Drilling Did Not Contaminate Susquehanna County Well Water
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection says a 16-month long investigation concluded that gas drilling did not cause nearby residential water wells to contain high levels of methane in...
View ArticleDEP’s Fracking Record-Keeping Blocks Transparency
Here’s a key question amid Pennsylvania’s natural gas drilling boom: How is drilling affecting residential water wells? Researchers say data on that core question is spotty. But one Pennsylvania agency...
View ArticleGas Industry Building Database Of Water Test Results, But Won’t Make It Public
More than two years ago the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a gas industry trade group, began building an electronic database to house information about the water quality in thousands of private wells...
View Article“Natural Fracking” Fuels Eternal Flames
As researchers debate the overall greenhouse gas impact of shale gas extraction, it turns out that nature has its own way of fracking and releasing methane into the atmosphere. Scientists refer to...
View ArticleScientists Create Online Database For Water Concerns Linked to Fracking
Water quality remains one of the biggest concerns related to the expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. While the gas industry has been building its own private database of “pre-drill” or...
View ArticleCabot Gas Well Linked To Methane Leakage Will Be Plugged
A natural gas well in Dimock Township, Susquehanna County, that has been the subject of a state investigation into methane leakage will be plugged after the investigation is completed, according to The...
View ArticleNew Methane Study Examines Leaks At The Source
Part one of a major new study on methane emissions from natural gas drilling shows encouraging, albeit mixed results at one end of the supply chain: production. “Some emissions were much lower than we...
View ArticleRobert F. Kennedy Jr. calls natural gas a “catastrophe”
As an environmental activist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one of the nation’s most vocal opponents of coal, but he thinks natural gas is just as bad. Speaking to a crowded auditorium today at Franklin and...
View ArticleBattleground Dimock property sold, deed bars owners from building home there
No one will ever live at 1101 Carter Road in Dimock again. The 3.6-acre property is one of 18 in the Susquehanna County village where state environmental regulators in 2009 traced methane contamination...
View ArticleScientists propose ‘methane-sniffing drones’ to cut leaks
An international team of scientists and engineers has an idea to curb what they say is a waste of natural resources and contributor to climate change: to make drillers pay a state-imposed fee for...
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