The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has granted permission for a controversial pipeline project to cross wetlands, rivers and streams in the Delaware River watershed. The Corps issued the permits last Friday. Environmentalists who oppose the project had pinned their hopes on having it blocked by the Corps, which issues the wetland permits. Richard Pearsall, [...]
Thousands of miles of new pipelines will need to be built across Pennsylvania to serve the Marcellus Shale gas drilling boom. Is the state prepared?
Republicans, utility companies, and the coal industry have pushed back on new air pollution rules, saying they will kill jobs and compromise reliability within the electrical grid. But a new report published last week by the Government Accountability Office says reliability won’t be too challenging to manage. “Regarding reliability, these actions are not expected to [...]
Efforts by environmentalists to block an interstate natural gas pipeline project in northeastern Pennsylvania have been rejected by a federal appeals court. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that federal regulators properly permitted the Marc 1 Hub line for Bradford, Sullivan, and Lycoming counties. A group of residents, along with the Pennsylvania [...]
Gas drilling in Pennsylvania doesn’t stop at the wellhead, it has to get to market. New pipelines are popping up all over the northeastern part of the state to transport Marcellus Shale gas. Thirty-seven miles of pipeline through Susquehanna County, PA, and Broome County, NY, will be built by the Michigan-based Bluestone Gathering. Bluestone is a [...]
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