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	<title>Marcellus Drilling News &#187; Wastewater</title>
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		<title>New Maryland Bill Would Ban Imports of Fracking Wastewater</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/02/new-maryland-bill-would-ban-imports-of-fracking-wastewater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the support of anti-drilling group Food &#38; Water Watch, Maryland House of Delegates member Shane Robinson (representing the DC suburb of Montgomery County) has introduced a bill into the Maryland legislature that would ban importing fracking wastewater for treatment in the state. House Bill 296, sponsored by Delegate Shane Robinson, only bans importing wastewater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warren, OH Frack Wastewater Treatment Continues&#8230;for Now</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/warren-oh-frack-wastewater-treatment-continues-for-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the complicated, ongoing story of fracking wastewater treatment in Warren, Ohio, the existing permit that allows the Warren Water Pollution Control Facility (sewage treatment plant) to dispose of treated brine water in the Mahoning River expires today. But because the renewal of the permit is something that has been appealed, according to Ohio EPA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McKeesport Settles Lawsuit for Treating Fracking Wastewater</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/mckeesport-settles-lawsuit-for-treating-fracking-wastewater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allegheny County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lawsuit against the City of McKeesport, PA (near Pittsburgh) for treating fracking wastewater has been settled. McKeesport was hauled into federal court last year by two activist anti-drilling organizations—Clean Water Action and Three Rivers Waterkeeper—to force the McKeesport municipal sewage treatment plant to not accept fracking wastewater for treatment at the plant (read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PA DEP Fines TerrAqua for Frack Water Spill in March 2011</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/pa-dep-fines-terraqua-for-frack-water-spill-in-march-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/pa-dep-fines-terraqua-for-frack-water-spill-in-march-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has finally gotten around to assessing a fine for a fracking water spill that happened in March 2011—a spill of 800-1,000 gallons of fracking water that the DEP says was preventable. The Department of Environmental Protection has fined TerrAqua Resource Management LLC of Williamsport, Lycoming County, $18,500 for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youngstown Earthquake Update</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/youngstown-earthquake-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Earthquakes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mahoning County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Armbruster, a seismologist from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, NY is one of the researchers investigating a string of 11 earthquakes near Youngstown, OH, the most recent of which occurred on New Year’s Eve in the afternoon. Armbruster says a local injection well, which injects wastewater from shale gas drilling under high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youngstown Earthquake and Fracking: Is There a Connection?</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/youngstown-earthquake-and-fracking-is-there-a-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/youngstown-earthquake-and-fracking-is-there-a-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 4.0 earthquake in the Youngstown, OH area on Saturday afternoon is thought to be connected to a local injection well. MDN has chronicled previous episodes of earthquakes thought to be connected with injection wells in Arkansas and Texas. Saturday’s earthquake was the 11th in the Youngstown area in recent months, and by far the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some NJ Legislators Say No to Fracking Wastewater</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/11/some-nj-legislators-say-no-to-fracking-wastewater/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/11/some-nj-legislators-say-no-to-fracking-wastewater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hydraulic Fracturing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Jersey legislators—at least some of them—don’t want wastewater from Marcellus (and Utica) Shale gas drilling in their state. New legislation is now making its way through the NJ state Assembly: Wastewater from natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania and other states could not be treated in New Jersey under a bill advancing in the state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mansfield OH Getting Two New Wastewater Injection Wells</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/11/mansfield-oh-getting-two-new-wastewater-injection-wells/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/11/mansfield-oh-getting-two-new-wastewater-injection-wells/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like two more injection wells are coming to Ohio. These new wells will be built near Mansfield (Richland County), Ohio and are specifically designed to handle 200,000 gallons of fracking wastewater per day from Marcellus and Utica Shale drilling operations. A Texas company has proposed building two 1,000- to 5,000-foot-deep injection wells on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warren OH Fracking Wastewater Treatment Plant Future in Doubt</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/11/warren-oh-fracking-wastewater-treatment-plant-future-in-doubt/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/11/warren-oh-fracking-wastewater-treatment-plant-future-in-doubt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future of wastewater treatment plant in Warren (Trumbull County), Ohio that handles fracking wastewater from Marcellus Shale drilling is now in doubt. The state attorney general has ruled that the permit granted to the Patriot Water Treatment plant in Warren was granted illegally. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has ruled that permits issued to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &#8220;Green&#8221; Fracking Wastewater Plant in McKean County, PA</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/11/new-green-fracking-wastewater-plant-in-mckean-county-pa/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/11/new-green-fracking-wastewater-plant-in-mckean-county-pa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Casella-Altela]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new Marcellus wastewater treatment facility is coming to McKean County, PA, and by using a local railroad spur, owners of the new facility hope to service a large area of Pennsylvania and eventually New York, reducing truck traffic. The facility will use methane from a local landfill for power instead of electricity. Low-grade heat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA to Regulate Shale Gas Drilling via Wastewater Standards</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/10/epa-to-regulate-shale-gas-drilling-via-wastewater-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/10/epa-to-regulate-shale-gas-drilling-via-wastewater-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marcellusdrilling.com/?p=4376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is signaling their intent to continue overreaching their authority by regulating oil and gas drilling in the U.S., violating states’ constitutional rights to do so themselves. The EPA’s “back door” way of regulating hydraulic fracturing (buying them time while they try to regulate it by the front door with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus Twp, PA Ban on Injection Wells Rescinded</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/10/columbus-twp-pa-ban-on-injection-wells-rescinded/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/10/columbus-twp-pa-ban-on-injection-wells-rescinded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under threat of a lawsuit, supervisors in Columbus Township (Warren County, PA) reversed their previous ban on the disposal of fracking fluids in two injection wells in the township (see this previous MDN story about the lawsuit). Injection wells are deep wells used to dispose of fracking fluid from those drillers who do not recycle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rumor: Endicott Company May Want to Treat Fracking Wastewater</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/10/rumor-endicott-company-may-want-to-treat-fracking-wastewater/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/10/rumor-endicott-company-may-want-to-treat-fracking-wastewater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broome County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Binghamton Press &#38; Sun-Bulletin reports on a rumor in today’s paper about a company in Endicott (Broome County, NY) thinking about treating fracking wastewater: Endicott Interconnect Technologies, based in Endicott, has approached the state Department of Environmental Conservation about accepting hydraulic fracturing wastewater for treatment, according to DEC spokeswoman Emily DeSantis. However, EI hasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PA Township Sued to Allow Injection Wells for Fracking Fluids</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/09/pa-township-sued-to-allow-injection-wells-for-fracking-fluids/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/09/pa-township-sued-to-allow-injection-wells-for-fracking-fluids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association has filed a lawsuit against Columbus Township in Warren County, PA challenging an ordinance that prohibits disposal of fracking fluids in the township. The fracking fluid ban was passed after the federal EPA approved permits for two underground injection wells to be operated within the township. A Warren [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OH Village Wants a Fracking Water Treatment Plant</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/08/oh-village-wants-a-fracking-water-treatment-plant/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/08/oh-village-wants-a-fracking-water-treatment-plant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Impact]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mingo Junction, a small village along the Ohio River in Jefferson County, Ohio is looking to tap into revenue from the Marcellus and Utica Shale drilling industry spouting up around it. The mayor and village council are trying to locate alternative sources of revenue since the local steel mill closed, leaving the village in a [...]]]></description>
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