Fed EPA Rejects Effort to Stop Clearfield County Injection Well

It’s been ten long years since Windfall Oil and Gas first floated a plan to drill a shale wastewater injection well near Dubois, in Brady Township (Clearfield County), PA. The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a permit for the well in 2015. The PA Dept. of Environmental Protection approved the project in March 2018 (see PA DEP Approves Wastewater Injection Well in Clearfield County). Residents who live near the proposed injection well have opposed the plan from the beginning. The Clearfield County Board of Commissioners is also opposed. In December 2020 the EPA reissued their permit for the well to get built. Local antis promptly challenged the EPA's decision. Finally, after more than a year, the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board has dismissed antis' challenge, clearing the way for the well to FINALLY get built.

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