Tag Archives: Marcellus Shale

Proceed with Caution: Report on PA’s Energy Future Makes Unreliable Economic Claims

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): HARRISBURG, PA (December 21, 2012) — Sharon Ward, Director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, responded to the recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce/IHS report, America’s New Energy Future: The Unconventional Oil … Continue reading →

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Learn to Document Fracking Problems in PA—December 18, Harrisburg

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From Clean Water Action PA (http://www.cleanwateraction.org/pa): Part of the difficulty of dealing with the effects offFracking on our communities is documenting the problems that exist. Frac Tracker is a vital part of the struggle to figure out what is going on. … Continue reading →

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State Representative Calls for Probe of DEP Water Testing Reports

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

Thursday, November 01, 2012 (posted at http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/12306/1273700-503.stm) By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has created incomplete lab reports and used them to dismiss complaints that Marcellus Shale gas development operations have contaminated residential water supplies … Continue reading →

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Pennsylvania Municipality Support for Legal Challenge to Act 13 Growing

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From the Delaware Riverkeeper Network (http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/): Sixty Seven Municipalities Go on Record Opposing Municipal Preemption Commonwealth of Pennsylvania – As the reality of Pennsylvania’s Act 13 sets in at the local level in Pennsylvania, there is a groundswell of disapproval.  … Continue reading →

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Detritus of Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From the Sierra Club (http://pennsylvania.sierraclub.org/): By Edward Humes The supple hills of Southwestern Pennsylvania, once known for their grassy woodlands, red barns, and one-stoplight villages, bristle with new landmarks these days: drilling rigs, dark green condensate tanks, fields of iron … Continue reading →

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Cracker Plant Tax Credit Expensive for Taxpayers While Promising Few Permanent Jobs

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Sandy Strauss

From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): Posted at http://pennbpc.org/cracker-plant-tax-credit-expensive-taxpayers-while-promising-few-permanent-jobs with references. Legislature should delay action until hearings can be held and all the details are scrutinized June 8, 2012 Governor Tom Corbett’s administration has proposed giving $1.65 billion … Continue reading →

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Community Action Forum for Marcellus Shale Gas—Upcoming Events

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From www.CommunityActionLancaster.com:   Marcellus Shale Activist Training in Lancaster—October 5   The thousands of Marcellus Shale gas wells littering Pennsylvania are just the beginning. In the coming years, gas companies like ExxonMobil, Range Resources and others plan to drill tens … Continue reading →

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Ask Your State Representative to Co-Sponsor Comprehensive and Fair Drilling Tax Legislation

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From PennFuture (http://www.pennfuture.org):   Please ask your state legislator to cosponsor the comprehensive and fair drilling tax proposal.   It is long past time for the Pennsylvania legislature to pass a drilling tax on deep gas drilling to invest in our … Continue reading →

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Every Picture Tells a Story

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

Posted at http://pennfuture.blogspot.com/2011/06/every-picture-tells-story.html.   By John Quigley   Pennsylvania’s history is punctuated by waves of natural resource extraction. From Drake’s first oil well in Titusville…to the early exploration for natural gas…to the timbering over of millions of acres to fuel the … Continue reading →

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