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Chesapeake Protests New Pipeline Rules





Kim Paynter / WHYY/Newsworks.org

A pipeline construction site in Susquehanna County.org


Chesapeake Energy has begun its own grassroots campaign over pipeline regulations. The Scranton Times-Tribune reports on how the gas company is recruiting landowners to protest the new rules. The company sent letters to landowners, explaining that new regulations are holding up gas drilling, and therefore, their royalty checks. The new rules adopted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and required by the Army Corps of Engineers, take into consideration the cumulative effects of the pipeline construction on surface water impacts. But Chesapeake says that review process delays drilling. New pipelines across the state are being built to get the gas to market. Chesapeake says the new regulations are leaving 128 gas wells untapped.

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