Six StateImpact Reports Worth Another Listen

StateIm­pact launched in July, and has been cov­er­ing Penn­syl­va­nia energy issues ever since. Here are six radio reports we filed in 2011 that are worth a sec­ond listen.

• Drilling Boom’s Strain On Coun­ties Leads To Calls For Impact Fee: StateIm­pact reported 911 calls are up in 7 of Pennsylvania’s top ten drilling coun­ties, and emer­gency ser­vices are stretched.
• Pipeline Protest: The New Bat­tle­ground Over Gas Drilling? Drilling oppo­nents can’t stop the wells, so they’re doing their best to stop the pipelines.
• Spin­ning Gas Into Mar­ble: Our look at one of the many Penn­syl­va­nia com­pa­nies prof­it­ing off the Mar­cel­lus Shale gas rush.
• Can Pennsylvania’s Forests Sur­vive Addi­tional Mar­cel­lus Shale Drilling? Gas extrac­tion in state forests is gen­er­at­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars for Penn­syl­va­nia, but con­ser­va­tion­ists worry the pay­out comes with a steep cost.
• Penn­syl­va­nia Fire­fight­ers Pre­pare For The Big One: How first respon­ders are prep­ping for emer­gen­cies at drilling sites.
• Research on Mar­cel­lus Drilling Ham­pered By Lack of Data, Lack of Fund­ing, and Con­cerns of Bias: the strug­gle to fund impar­tial research of nat­ural gas drilling.

Thanks for lis­ten­ing and read­ing this year. We’ll have much more for you in 2012.