At the regular Murrysville, PA (Westmoreland County) town council meeting on August 16, the council voted to adopt Ordinance No. 1075-23, an ordinance amending the town code to add a provision allowing wastewater injection wells in the town. The new ordinance limits injection wells to properties zoned for business use. The prospective site must be…
Read More...We’re naming names. Pennsylvania State Rep. Charity Grimm Krupa (Republican from Fayette County) has turned against the Marcellus industry. She is introducing legislation that would ban drilling new wastewater injection wells in the state, making it much harder to drill new shale wells. Companies end up drilling fewer wells without a place to dispose of…
Read More...Earlier this year, Roulette Oil & Gas LLC received approval from the federal EPA to build a shale wastewater injection well in Clara Township in Potter County, PA (see EPA Approves Potter County, PA Injection Well, Waiting Now for DEP). On March 31, the Clara Town Board passed an amended version of its 1987 ordinance…
Read More...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…
Read More...This is the first time a proposed new wastewater injection well in Fayette County, PA, is appearing on our radar screen. G2 STEM, a Virginia-based company, filed an application in June 2022 with the federal EPA to construct and operate a wastewater injection well in Nicholson Township. The EPA recently held an online hearing (July…
Read More...We love a good “back from the dead” story. In 2017 Epiphany Water Solutions (aka Epiphany Environmental, LLC) filed for a permit to build a centralized oil and gas wastewater treatment facility in Coudersport (Potter County), PA (see Shale Wastewater Treatment Plant Planned for Potter County, PA). The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) held…
Read More...MDN has covered news about wastewater injection well company Buckeye Brine for more than a decade (see our Buckeye Brine stories here). Over the years, the company has drilled and safely operated three injection wells at the same location in Coshocton County, OH. Buckeye recently filed an application with the Ohio EPA to drill and…
Read More...MDN recently reported that after eight years, Pennsylvania General Energy gave up on trying to build an environmentally safe wastewater injection well in Grant Township, Indiana County, PA (see Bad Guys Win: PA General Energy to Plug Grant Twp Injection Well). Yes, the bad guys (CELDF) finally won. However, a proposed injection well project is…
Read More...In the future, when everyone’s favorite groundhog Punxsutawney Phil pokes his head out of his hole in February to tell us whether or not there are another six weeks of winter, he may be looking at shale wastewater trucks coming and going on their way to a new underground injection well just outside of town….
Read More...With a one-vote majority in the Pennsylvania House, the Democrats who run the House are stepping up their attacks on… Continue reading The post PA Dem House Attacks O&G with Bill Aimed at Blocking New Permits first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Since 2015 we’ve reported on the case of Grant Township (Indiana County, PA), a town that passed an ordinance cooked… Continue reading The post Bad Guys Win: PA General Energy to Plug Grant Twp Injection Well first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Pennsylvania faces a potential wastewater disposal problem as activists fight new injection wells within the state and demand stricter regulations in Ohio. The post Pennsylvania faces wastewater disposal conundrum appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter. This post appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter.
Read More...Earlier this month, MDN told you about the long-festering issue of building a shale wastewater injection well in Clara Township… Continue reading The post Clara Township Adopts Modified Ordinance Banning Injection Wells first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...For a moment, we thought we were reading an article in The Onion. But no! It was a real article… Continue reading The post Ivy League “Study” Claims Poor Old Folks Suffer from M-U Fracking first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Last week MDN told you about the long-festering issue of building a shale wastewater injection well in Clara Township in… Continue reading The post Clara Twp Stops Responding re Ordinance Banning Injection Wells first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
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