6 New Shale Well Permits Issued for Tardy PA Jul 10-16

Rich Negrin, newly ensconced Secretary of the Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) in Pennsylvania, was supposed to be the Great White Horse riding it to correct the problems at the DEP and "make the trains run on time" (i.e., clean up the bureaucratic dysfunction at the agency). He's been running the agency since January, yet we haven't seen any noticeable changes. Is it too soon to expect results? Last Friday, as happens about once every other month, the DEP's oil and gas reporting database was offline, throwing an error. We could not bring you PA's permit numbers for Friday (see 17 New Shale Well Permits Issued for OH-WV (Not PA) Jul 10-16). Sometime in the last 72 hours, the computer geeks got their act together and got the computer system working again (after we pestered them). Today we bring you the permit report for PA that should have been available on Friday, showing PA issued a lousy six new shale permits for the week of July 10-16.

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