courtesy of filmmakers A dairy farmer from Calicoon, NY who is campaigning to lift the moratorium on gas drilling in New York, appears in Fracknation. The pro-fracking answer to “Gasland” is on the road in Pennsylvania and will be screened in hostile territory tonight — the Philadelphia suburbs. “Fracknation,” a film by Phelim McAleer and [...]
Pipeline expansions serving the Marcellus Shale gas boom have helped boost production rates above seven billion cubic feet a day, according to an analysis by IHS. The report says the Marcellus now leads the Haynesville Shale as the most productive shale play in the country. The Haynesville Shale formation stretches beneath northwestern Louisiana, eastern Texas and [...]
Good news seems to keep pouring in for Pennsylvania’s shale drillers. Last week, Cabot Oil and Gas reported record production volumes and earnings for 2012. Speaking at a hearing in Philadelphia City Council Wednesday afternoon, David Yoxheimer, from the Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research, says Marcellus wells produced 2 trillion cubic feet of natural [...]
Fracking has made it to the big screen. Just three years ago, few beyond the drilling industry, had heard of it. Now fracking has turned up in The Rolling Stone’s new album. And on Friday, a Hollywood production with big name actors, directors and writers hits the theaters in New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. [...]
By now, videos of residents lighting their taps on fire are a familiar image. Those flames are caused by methane that migrated into a subsurface water supply and is known as methane migration, or “stray gas.” Perhaps the most famous incident of stray gas happened in Dimock, Susquehanna County. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection [...]
Cabot Oil and Gas is considering building a new 200-mile pipeline to transport natural gas from Pennsylvania to Boston and New York. As the Times-Tribune reports, the company held a public meeting in Susquehanna County this week, to discuss the pipeline’s route: NEW MILFORD – With some ready to embrace it and others wanting to [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency says results from 12 water wells in the village of Dimock don’t reveal any unsafe levels of pollutants that would require further federal action. The EPA says one well did have high levels of methane. Eleven households in Dimock say gas drilling by Cabot Oil and Gas contaminated their water supplies [...]
State regulators are investigating another potential case of methane migration in Susquehanna County. As the Times-Tribune reports, the Department of Environmental Protection is trying to determine whether methane made its way into water supplies just north of Dimock. Regulators with the state Department of Environmental Protection emphasized that they have not determined the source of elevated [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency has released the results of 16 additional water tests from Dimock, Pa. In a short statement, the EPA says none of the 16 water results showed contamination that would require additional federal action. But the agency says one well did contain “elevated” levels of arsenic and offered clean water deliveries. But [...]
Water Defense, the anti-fracking environmental group formed by actor Mark Ruffalo, disputes the EPA’s conclusions about Dimock’s water tests. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency released water test results from 20 households in the Susquehanna County township. The EPA says analysis of those tests reveal the water is safe to drink. But Claire Sandberg, of [...]
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