Punxsutawney Phil’s New Neighbor – Shale Wastewater Injection Well
Nearly a year ago, MDN brought you the news that the federal EPA had issued a permit to G2 STEM LLC based in Fairfax, Virginia, to build a Class IID oil and gas wastewater underground injection well in Young Township, Jefferson County, PA (see Punxsutawney Phil Getting a New Neighbor – Shale Injection Well). You may know the area by its nearby boro, Punxsutawney, along with its most famous resident, Punxsutawney Phil. We have great news! The Pennsylvania State Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued a permit for the project, allowing it to move forward.
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We have been tracking and reporting on the drama surrounding Austin Master Services (AMS), a radiological waste management solutions company in Martins Ferry ( Belmont County), Ohio, located close to the Ohio River (
One of the aspects of the Austin Master Services (AMS) story (from Ohio) that captures people’s attention is that the frack waste at the facility contains drill cuttings, some of it with a low level of radioactivity. The headline-grabbing media touts that aspect of the story, overplaying just how “radioactive” it actually is. “OMG! If that stuff gets into the Ohio River, it’s an ecological disaster!” That sort of thing. While the percent threat to public health from AMS’ stored drill cuttings is not zero, it’s also not 100. We need a little balance added to the discussion. Just how much of a threat is the waste in the AMS facility?
Yeah, the bottom pretty much fell out of the rig count last week, both nationally and for the Marcellus/Utica region. We’re hitting new lows with both counts. For the M-U, Pennsylvania stayed the same with 21 active rigs, but Ohio lost one rig, and West Virginia lost two rigs last week, for a net loss of three — 37 active rigs across the region, the lowest in more than a year. The national rig count hit 600 last week, the lowest it has reached since January 2022. Ugh.
The left constantly spins false media narratives as a form of psychological operation (psyops) to discourage those of us who support the fossil fuel industry. Our good friend Tom Shepstone, who writes the 
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Coterra Energy drops nearly $500K on Career and Technology Center; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Youth climate-change lawsuit targets Alaska LNG project; NATIONAL: Oil executives fuel Trump’s $40MM Texas fundraising haul; USA DOE selling gasoline from supply reserve; US power demand expected to jump 2.7% this summer; Judge certifies class in anti-ESG lawsuit against American Airlines; INTERNATIONAL: OPEC heavyweights are cheating on their targets; EU adopts law to mitigate methane emissions from energy sector; For the first time in a while, developed nations will need more energy.