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Steuben County, NY May Accept Marcellus Drill Cuttings in County Landfill

Like neighboring Chemung County, NY, officials in Steuben County, NY are actively considering accepting Marcellus drill cuttings (leftover dirt and rock from drilling gas wells) in the county landfill. Drillers over the border in Pennsylvania are looking for a location to dump the cuttings. The debate over whether to accept drill cuttings always centers on [...]

Radiation Testing Shows Marcellus Shale Drill Cuttings are Safe for Chemung County, NY Landfill

Chemung County, NY officials have released a report they commissioned from an independent certified health physicist that show levels of radiation in the Marcellus Shale drill cuttings coming from Pennsylvania Marcellus drilling operations to the Chemung County landfill are “well below” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards for radiation. The gist of the report is that [...]

Are the Shale Cuttings Being Dumped at the Chemung County Landfill Radioactive?

Part of the process of drilling a well includes disposing of the material that comes out of the well, including “cuttings” and mud—i.e., leftover dirt and rock. A “controversy” is brewing in Chemung County, NY where the county landfill is accepting cuttings from drillers over the border in the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale. The problem? Sometimes [...]

Focus of natural gas exploration in Pa., not N.Y.

Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (Oct 4): Focus of natural gas exploration in Pa., not N.Y. Not a lot of interest in this article. But there’s this useful paragraph: Fortuna Energy Inc. of Chemung County, for example, has spent $350 million since April on wells in Pennsylvania, said spokesman Mark Scheuerman.

Natural gas quest: DEC investigating disposal of fluids by drilling vendor

Press & Sun-Bulletin (Oct 3): Natural gas quest: DEC investigating disposal of fluids by drilling vendor Pretty much a non-story story, typical “hit piece” by leftist media. There is a company providing chemicals for drilling, for Pennsylvania companies (PA because so far, since there IS no drilling in New York). Said company, Northeast Mud Services [...]

Central New York Starting to Heat Up with Marcellus Drilling

A recent article published in The Oneonta Star covered two gas drilling “forums” that were conducted in Otsego County by the anti-drilling group Sustainable Otsego. The article is a lazy, biased view of a complicated issue–but there’s no surprise there. The mainstream media is not an impartial, investigative source of information as it once was. [...]