Eureka Temporarily Idles Bradford County Shale Wastewater Plant

Eureka Resources, which operates three frack wastewater treatment facilities in the Marcellus Shale, has idled one of its three plants, the Standing Stone plant in Bradford County, PA. According to an inspection report by the Department of Environmental Protection conducted on August 19, Bob Cooney, Vice President of Operations at Eureka Resources, told the DEP…

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Eureka Resources Cancels Shale Wastewater Plant Planned for Dimock

In March 2021, Eureka Resources announced plans to build a Marcellus Shale wastewater treatment facility in Dimock (Susquehanna County), Pennsylvania (see Eureka Building Marcellus Wastewater Recycling Plant in Dimock, PA). Yep, that Dimock, the one made famous by the lying Josh Fox of Gasland fame. Both Dimock Township and the Susquehanna County Planning Commission gave…

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Ex-employees Request Criminal Probe Against Eureka Resources

Earlier this week, Pennsylvania State Senator Katie Muth, a virulent anti-shale hater from the Philadelphia suburbs, held a press conference with a so-called investigative reporter from the Public Herald and two former employees from the Eureka Resources’ Williamsport frack wastewater treatment facility. The employees and reporter leveled some extremely serious accusations about the safety and…

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Frack Water Spill at Eureka Resources Plant in Williamsport, PA

An undetermined amount of fracking wastewater spilled at the Eureka Resources wastewater recycling facility in Williamsport (Lycoming County), PA, at about 9:10 a.m. yesterday. The incident prompted a response by city firefighters and police. The water came from a valve on a tank inside the facility, where oil, chemicals and other substances are removed from…

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Eureka Turns PA Marcellus Wastewater into Lithium Carbonate

Eureka Resources, which operates three frack wastewater treatment facilities in the Marcellus Shale (and building a fourth facility in Dimock, PA), is doing really cool stuff. In October 2019, the company began extracting lithium from Marcellus wastewater at one of its plants in Bradford County, PA (see Marcellus Wastewater Plant in PA Extracts 1st Batch…

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Sen. Katie Muth’s Attempt to Block Dimock Wastewater Plant Dismissed

Pennsylvania State Senator Katie Muth’s attempt to block a proposed frack wastewater treatment plant in Dimock (hours away from her… Continue reading The post Sen. Katie Muth’s Attempt to Block Dimock Wastewater Plant Dismissed first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Worker Dies After Accident at Eureka Resources Plant in Wysox, PA

Some sad news to share with you that had escaped our notice until today. A 39-year-old man from Sayre, PA,… Continue reading The post Worker Dies After Accident at Eureka Resources Plant in Wysox, PA first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Katie Muth Case Keeps Getting Curiouser and Curiouser!

Katie Muth Case Keeps Getting Curiouser and Curiouser! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Southeast PA State Senator Katie Muth wanted to speak for Dimock, lost at the Environmental Hearing Board, her attorney was sanctioned and she persists in suing. This case is so bizarre, one wonders if we have not been transported

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PA EHB Dismisses Senator’s Request to Block Dimock Wastewater Plant

The Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board (EHB) partially dismissed a challenge brought by Philly-area State Senator Katie Muth. She seeks to… Continue reading The post PA EHB Dismisses Senator’s Request to Block Dimock Wastewater Plant first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Muth Dismissed, Her Legal Counsel Sanctioned!

Muth Dismissed, Her Legal Counsel Sanctioned! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Katie Muth, the State Senator from Southeast PA who wants to speak for Dimock, lost out at the Environmental Hearing Board and her attorney was sanctioned. Back in March of this year, I wrote a lengthy post suggesting why no one

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Eurkea Gets $1.5M Grant to Expand Lithium from Wastewater PA Plant

Eureka Resources, which owns and operates a centralized treatment/recycling facility in Bradford County, PA to process Marcellus watewater, is getting a $1.5 million state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Projects grant to help the plant launch a high tech solution to recover lithium from Marcellus wastewater. Yes, lithium, like that used to manufacture rechargeable batteries. This post

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Marcellus Wastewater Plant in PA Gets Ready to Extract Lithium

Left to Right: Preston McEachern CEO PurLucid, Chris Frantz VP Business Development Eureka, Dan Ertel CEO Eureka, and Jared Lazerson CEO MGX (click for larger version) In March, MDN brought you the news that Eureka Resources, which owns and operates three centralized treatment/recycling facilities that process flowback/produced waters (i.e. wastewater) from the Marcellus Shale, announced

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