PIOGA Responds to PA DEP’s Trashing of Conventional Drillers

Last summer then-Gov. Tom Wolf instructed the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) to conduct a comprehensive review of conventional oil and gas driller compliance with an eye on locating enough dirt to justify creating onerous new regulations for the industry (see PA Gov. Wolf Instructs DEP to Draft New Regs Following Act 96). The report was due by Sept. 1. The DEP finally issued its report on Dec. 29th, just as the upper echelon of the DEP was heading for the door to make way for Shapiro’s people to take over (see Departing PA DEP Attacks Conventional O&G in So-Called Report). The report was essentially a hit piece against the conventional oil and gas industry in the state.

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