Upper Burrell Continues to Tweak Plan to Block Injection Wells

Upper Burrell (Westmoreland County, PA) town supervisors have historically been receptive (or at least tolerant) to the Marcellus Shale industry that has so blessed their town and Westmoreland County. But attitudes seemed to change last December, at least with respect to wastewater injection wells (see Upper Burrell Twp Makes Moves to Ban Wastewater Injection Wells). The town’s Board of Supervisors instructed the town solicitor to draft an ordinance with stricter rules for the use of abandoned wells in the township, wells that could (theoretically) be used as wastewater injection wells. It seems the board is putting some final tweaks on the proposed new ordinance, and it will come up for a vote "soon."

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