PA DEP Tees Up 46 Pages of New Safety Regs for Shale Drillers

Pennsylvania has a crazy quilt patchwork of regulations that apply to unconventional (shale) drillers. Many of those regulations come from various divisions inside the Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP). However, there are other agencies where regs apply to shale too. Take, for example, the requirement to meet all of the confusing (sometimes contradictory) regulations related to safety and safety planning. There are multiple emergency and contingency planning requirements under multiple state regulations. The DEP has just introduced a 46-page NEW regulation aimed at making it "easier" for drillers to comply with all of the existing emergency planning regs.

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