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  • Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Susquehanna County

    EPA “May” Start Testing Dimock, PA Water in 2 Weeks

    January 6, 2012January 6, 2012

    yes no maybeEarlier this week, MDN reported that the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an agency prone to overstep its legal authority, is once again nosing around Dimock, PA (see this MDN story). After writing to tell Carter Road residents in the Dimock area that their drinking water was just fine on Dec. 2 of last year, they reversed course last week and expressed concerns over “gaps” in water testing data. Now it seems that the EPA themselves will conduct their own tests of water in Dimock.

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  • Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | New York | Regulation | Statewide NY

    New Fracking Moratorium Bill Coming in NY Legislature

    January 6, 2012January 6, 2012

    Gannett reporter Jon Campbell reports that a bill to extend New York’s moratorium on hydraulic fracturing until June 2013 is now circulating in Albany and is expected to be introduced soon by the the Assembly environmental chairman:

    Read More “New Fracking Moratorium Bill Coming in NY Legislature”

  • Forced Pooling | Industrywide Issues | Statewide WV | West Virginia

    WV Legislator Offers Forced Pooling for Higher Severance Tax

    January 6, 2012January 6, 2012

    In December of 2011, West Virginia passed new Marcellus Shale drilling laws raising certain fees and putting new requirements in place (see this MDN story). The drilling industry, while saying it was not a perfect law, in the end supported it. But there was on thing the new law did not address that the industry wants to see: forced pooling. That issue is once again being discussed for possible action in the legislature this year.

    Read More “WV Legislator Offers Forced Pooling for Higher Severance Tax”

  • Economic Impact | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Jobs | Processing Plants | Sunoco Logistics

    Southern NJ Refinery May Reopen Thanks to Shale Fracking

    January 6, 2012January 6, 2012

    A closed refinery in West Deptford Township (Gloucester County), NJ may soon reopen thanks to hydraulic fracturing. The refinery, owned by Sunoco, is looking at two possibilities: Refine oil from the Bakken Shale region of North Dakota; or convert the refinery into a processing plant to move and store ethane from the Marcellus Shale region.

    Read More “Southern NJ Refinery May Reopen Thanks to Shale Fracking”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, Jan 6, 2012

    January 6, 2012

    The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading:

    Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, Jan 6, 2012”

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