Recent Gas Drilling News (04-01-10 9PM EDT): NY & PA:
"Cornell Professor Says Drilling Info Misleading" (Fox 40 WICZ)- http://www.wicz.com/news2005/viewarticle.asp?a=13464 (Video- http://www.wicz.com/news/video.asp?video=03%2D31%2D10+mar%2Ewmv%2Eflv&zone=News ) "Questions raised as landfill seeks to increase intake of Marcellus drilling waste: "...The relationship raises more questions of how Marcellus waste -- which tends to contain radioactive particles and heavy metals -- will be regulated and handled as multinational energy companies begin full-scale development of the massive natural gas reserve stretching throughout Appalachia and parts of New York..." "- http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20100331/NEWS01/3310383/Questions+raised+as+landfill+seeks+to+increase+intake+of+Marcellus+drilling+waste "State Public Service Commission approves natural gas pipeline project in Madison County: "...The project is an upgrade for Norse Energy, allowing the developer to move more gas from its wells in Madison County and the neighboring Chenango County township of Smyrna to a compressor station in Eaton..." " (Eaton NY)- http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/state_public_service_commissio_2.html "Mesa Energy Holdings, Inc. Receives Permit Approval: "...has received permits from the NY Department of Environmental Conservation to move forward with its re-completion plans on two existing Medina wells in its Java Field natural gas development project in Wyoming County, New York..." "- http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/energy/mesa-energy-holdings-receives-permit-approval/ "Forum on Marcellus drilling set for Saturday" (Elmira Heights NY)- http://www.the-leader.com/newsnow/x998202464/Forum-on-Marcellus-drilling-set-for-Saturday "Gas company plans to fix methane in water in Dimock:"...A gas company (Cabot Oil and Gas Corp.) operating in Susquehanna County plans to install methane removal systems in at least 13 homes where the state found that gas had seeped into drinking water because of nearby natural gas drilling..." " (PA)- http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/gas-company-plans-to-fix-methane-in-water-in-dimock-1.711611 "DEP Fines Steckman Ridge $22,000 for Air, Water Quality Violations:Malfunctioning Compressor Discharged Industrial Oil to Surrounding Properties" (DEP PA)- http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/newsroom/14287?id=10196&typeid=1 ("Natural Gas Compressor Station Coats Farmland in Used Gear Oil: "...Spectra Energy's Steckman Ridge Natural Gas Compressor Station sprayed up to 1,629 pounds of used lubricating oil onto fertile farmland and residential property in rural Pennsylvania; crops had to be burned...The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has been misinformed residents for the past six months that the oil residents found coating their blueberries, tomatoes, hay fields..." "- http://www.phillyimc.org/en/natural-gas-compressor-station-coats-farmland-used-gear-oil ) "Natural gas meeting draws big crowd: "...30 families can't use their water to drink, bathe in or cook with due to well contamination, and no gas companies are willing to take responsibility..." " (Dallas PA)- http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3995236 "Residents in Luzerne County React to Gas Drilling" (Video WNEP Dallas PA)- http://www.wnep.com/wnep-luz-residents-react-to-gas-drilling,0,7688812.story "Stone Energy vote postponed: "...The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) Thursday announced that the proposed Stone Energy Surface Water Withdrawal and Natural Gas Well Site dockets will not be on the agenda for consideration at its next business meeting scheduled for May 5, 2010..." " (Wayne County PA)- http://www.wayneindependent.com/news/x1664789268/Stone-Energy-vote-postponed National & Canadian: "Natural gas pit fire and leaking pipes - more accidents in Pennsylvania"- http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/amall/natural_gas_pit_fire_and_leaki.html "Possibility of gas wells being explored by Mayfield school board" (Ohio)- http://blog.cleveland.com/sunmessenger/2010/04/possibility_of_gas_wells_being.html "Oil and gas firms lobbying against federal oversight of frac'ing" (Colorado)- http://www.postindependent.com/article/20100401/VALLEYNEWS/100339981/1083&ParentProfile=1074 "Industry, critics lobby state on fracking rules" (Wyoming)- http://www.kmph.com/Global/story.asp?S=12244460 _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
