October 2011
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Senate advances shale measure, but drops impact...
With the final days of October staring back at them on the calendar, Pennsylvania Senate lawmakers moved forward a measure to significantly increase the state’s oversight of Marcellus Shale gas drilling.
That unanimous vote by the Senate Appropriations Committee, however, came with a couple of major catches: The measure is still a work in progress and, for now, no longer includes an impact...
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Earthquake In South Texas: Fracking Fluid at...
From KUT News in Austin: “They [drilling companies] pump the water back into the ground into a deep aquifer to get rid of it,” earthquake researcher Cliff Frohlich at UT’s Institute for Geophysics told KUT News.
“The quakes have been associated with the pumping of water back into the ground, not the producing of the gas,” he said, pointing to seismic activity in North Texas and in Arkansas.
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“There’s so much mythology and angst about fracking that if you develop a...”
– Ralph Schmeltz, Pennsylvania Medical Society President
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BREAKING: South Fayette, PA town manager goes to...
Mike Hoy, South Fayette town manager for nearly 11 years, announced his resignation from public office to work for MarkWest Energy Partners.
MarkWest is the natural gas processing firm partnered with Range Resources. Range is currently in a legal conflict with South Fayette over the township’s drilling ordinance. Read more and sound off on Pipeline’s facebook page.
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WatchIn this episode of “In the Pipeline,” our hosts look at the Range Resources v. South Fayette showdown, discuss Gov. Perry’s pro-drilling platform & unveil the unlikely shale star of the week! Can you guess who it is?
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WatchGov. Rick Perry of Texas came to West Mifflin, Pa on Oct. 14 to unveil his energy plan which focuses on amping up domestic production and scaling back regulation. Video by Elisabeth Ponsot / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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“We’re sitting on this absolute treasure trove of energy in this...”
– Gov. Rick Perry, Republican candidate for President of the United States
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WatchAt the South Fayette, Pa zoning board meeting, the township solicitor called for the recusal of three zoning officers with ties to the gas industry. 2 signed leases with Range, the alternate works for EQT.
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Some blame natural gas drilling for Arkansas...
From The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: “The latest quakes come after the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission ordered four natural gas disposal wells shut down and created a moratorium area preventing future disposal wells in a large swath of central Arkansas. Geologists believed the quakes were likely caused by the drilling activity, which involves injecting pressurized liquid into the...
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