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DEP: Schreiner Oil & Gas Co responsible for contamination of at least 7 water supplies in McKean County, PA
N E W S R E L E A S E COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIADept. of Environmental ProtectionNorthwest Regional Office230 Chestnut St.Meadville, PA 16335 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE5/4/2009 CONTACT:Freda TarbellPhone: (814) 332-6816 DEP IDENTIFIES RESPONSIBILITY FOR BRADFORD TOWNSHIP GAS MIGRATION/WATER SUPPLY PROBLEMS MEADVILLE – The Department of Environmental Protection has determined that Schreiner Oil…
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Bainbridge, Ohio: feckless regulators can do nothing about reckless drillers
http://www.cleveland.com/sunnews/news/index.ssf?/base/news-0/123988722216420.xml&coll=4 BAINBRIDGE, Ohio – More than 100 people crammed into an overflowing meeting room at the Federated Church Tuesday to hear what the state was going to do about problems created by oil and gas well drillers. Sean Logan, the Ohio Department of Natural Resource’s director, had few answers to calm fears. He failed to…
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‘Burdocks and oil’: How gas companies infiltrate and manipulate leaseholders & communities
The Daily Review, a Towanda, Pennsylvania newspaper, printed a truly regrettable editorial in their April 12 edition. It was titled, astonishingly, “Give gas firms a decent chance to do right thing.” I didn’t know such naivete was still possible. And I can’t say I can remember ever seeing such smarmy pathos in an editorial. The…
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Natural gas industry lies, tactics, & abuses: more from the mayor of DISH, TX
http://txsharon.blogspot.com/2009/04/bluff.htmlSaturday, 4/11/09 Calvin Tillman, mayor of DISH, Texas, writes: Known as a “strategic lawsuit against public participation,” a SLAPP suit is meant to intimidate, exhaust and silence critics. Widely considered an affront to the First Amendment, 26 states and one U.S. territory have adopted some kind of statutory protection against SLAPP suits. Courts in two other states also adopted…
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What drinking water looks like in Dimock these days:
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‘Dimock in the first person’: Cabot behind on royalties
“Cabot told my neighbor that they are running behind on royalties, and probably won’t start ours until sometime in April. The 90 days were up in February sometime. So they don’t even do that right.”
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‘Dimock in the first person’: “None of us think of natural gas as clean these days.”
In response to a membership letter from the Sierra Club: Dear Mr. Nilles, I am responding to your letter concerning switching from coal power to “clean” natural gas. Although I live near Scranton and the PA coal region in general, I am concerned when I hear of natural gas touted as a clean fuel. At…