Another Marcellus Shale Convention Coming – This Time, In Pittsburgh

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  Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
  
  Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.
  
  Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

Itching for another drilling convention, after last week’s Shale Gas Insight conference in Philadelphia?
You’re in luck. This October, Pittsburgh will host the third-annual Marcellus Shale Gas Environmental Summit. The event will will “bring together leading Shale Gas producers with technical and environmental experts to address the use and management of water resources in various stages of Shale gas operations,” according to the summit’s website. Topic covered will include, “Water transportation, use, treatment, and environmental impact are critical components to shale gas extraction.”
Who’s behind the conference? Two companies that market their services to drillers: Spill containment specialist New Pig, and Select Energy Services, which provides everything from water containment units to pipeline materials, to actual drilling rigs.

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