Greene County (PA)

DEP Clips Rice (EQT) $147,250 for Polluting Rain Gardens in SWPA

We’ve heard of vegetable gardens. We’ve heard of flower gardens. We’ve heard of rose gardens. Remember the Lynn Anderson song,… Continue reading The post DEP Clips Rice (EQT) $147,250 for Polluting Rain Gardens in SWPA first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Pitt Tries to Recruit SWPA Families for Flawed Fracking/Cancer Study

What if we gave the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) a $2.5 million grant to study a link between peanut butter… Continue reading The post Pitt Tries to Recruit SWPA Families for Flawed Fracking/Cancer Study first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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19 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Aug 22-28

Last week the three states with active Marcellus/Utica drilling, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, issued a collective 19 new drilling… Continue reading The post 19 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Aug 22-28 first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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45 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Aug 15-21

After several weeks of anemic permit numbers for Pennsylvania, last week PA came roaring back by issuing 30 permits to… Continue reading The post 45 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Aug 15-21 first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Western PA Farmers Talk About Deductions, Falling Royalties

The same old issue keeps returning in Pennsylvania for landowners and rights owners. The Pennsylvania Minimum Royalty Act guarantees payments… Continue reading The post Western PA Farmers Talk About Deductions, Falling Royalties first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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34 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Jun 13-19

We finally started to see more permits issued again last week. After the Marcellus/Utica was in the permit doldrum for… Continue reading The post 34 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Jun 13-19 first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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PA AG Shapiro Charges ECA/Greylock with Environmental Crimes

In early 2018, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) collected a whopping $1.7 million fine from Energy Corporation of… Continue reading The post PA AG Shapiro Charges ECA/Greylock with Environmental Crimes first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Dec 14-18

Last week Pennsylvania issued 25 new shale well drilling permits in both northeast and southwest PA, although most of the permits for SWPA. Ohio issued 4 new shale well permits, all of them to the same company (Encino Energy) and the same well pad (in Harrison County). West Virginia issued 6 new shale well permits,

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Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Nov. 23-27

Last week Pennsylvania issued 12 new shale well drilling permits with a mix of permits issued in both the southwest (wet gas) and northeast (dry gas) regions of the state. Ohio issued 7 new permits, all of them except one in the same county (Jefferson). West Virginia was a goose egg–no new permits issued last

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Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Nov. 2-6

Last week Pennsylvania issued a paltry 3 new shale well drilling permits (lowest we’ve seen in months), Ohio issued a single new permit, and West Virginia issued 5 new shale well permits. All 3 PA permits were issued in Greene County. The OH permit was issued in Carroll County (bit of a surprise). And all

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PA DEP Fines Equitrans $650K for SWPA Gas Storage Field Violation

Equitrans (nee EQT Midstream) owns a natural gas storage field in Greene County, PA, in the southwest corner of the state, called Swarts Field. Natural gas storage fields are an important, but often overlooked, part of the natgas ecosystem. Last December the state Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) threatened to shut down Swarts Field because

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EQT CEO Toby Rice Hits a Home Run with Landowner Meetings

Yesterday MDN told you that new EQT CEO Toby Rice is in the midst of conducting four “town hall” style meetings with landowners–two this week and two next week (see Road Trip! EQT CEO Toby Rice Talks to Landowners in Town Hall Mtgs). By all accounts, the first meeting (Wednesday night in Waynesburg, PA) was

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