Once Again, PA DEP Fails to Follow-up on Well Violations for Years

December 23, 2024December 23, 2024

Last week, MDN brought you the news that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) had not followed up on the cleanup work needed for a shale well drilled some 12 years ago (see PA DEP Fails to Follow-up Forest County Shale Violations for 12 Yrs). As violations go, it's pretty minor (tidying up the pad site), but it illustrates the lack of follow-up by the DEP. We have two more cases where the DEP issued violations and didn't follow up---for YEARS. These two cases involve conventional wells.

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