Recent Posts in Marcellus Shale Category
Posted on Feb 3, 2012 By Rogan Law
No Evidence of Drilling Chemicals Found in Montrose Water When the floodgates of industry opened to tap the natural gas resources of the Pennsylvania landscape, many towns saw a massive influx of ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2011 By Patrick Rogan
According to this morning's Times-Tribune , Chesapeake Energy has suspended its well-completion operations in parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia until further notice due to an accident at a ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By Patrick Rogan
More and more families in our area are being notified that land adjacent to their property will be used as a planned site for water withdrawal for potential gas drilling. Saturday's Times-Tribune ...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2010 By
If you are living in Northeastern Pennsylvania, chances are that you have heard a lot of talk lately about natural gas drilling in the Marchellus Shale. Proponents of both sides of this issue feel ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
Today's Times-Tribune reports that a tragic explosion in Indianola, Pennsylvania has killed two workers at a natural gas well. A welding project near the well is suspected to have triggered the deadly ...
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Posted on Jul 17, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
I'm always reading the newspaper and commenting on it in these blogs, and oftentimes, the news is less than good. However, today's Times-Tribune cheered me up with an article reporting that Bloomberg ...
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Posted on Jul 6, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
Today's Times-Tribune details the natural gas industry's current push to label gas gathering pipelines as utilities, which would subject the companies that own the lines to some regulation, but would ...
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Posted on Jun 28, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
More news about Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling: An article in today's Times-Tribune emphasizes not the negative impact drilling has had and could have on NEPA's natural resources, but the ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2010 By Patrick Rogan
The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) announced yesterday that it has amended its 2009 decision requiring sponsors of natural gas extraction projects to obtain permission before beginning ...
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Posted on Jun 7, 2010 By Patrick M. Rogan
The Times-Tribune has reported two major accidents related to Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling in the past week. The first accident in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, resulted in a 16-hour leak ...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2010 By Patrick M. Rogan
The latest news on Marcellus Shale drilling in Wayne County: American Rivers , a national conservation agency, has named the Upper Delaware River as the most endangered river in the nation due to ...
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Posted on May 27, 2010 By Patrick M. Rogan
Another interesting piece about Marcellus Shale drilling appeared in today's Times-Tribune . The paper ran a "middle path" editorial which observed that drilling will have both costs and benefits, and ...
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Posted on May 27, 2010 By Patrick M. Rogan
Those who support developing the Marcellus Shale formation for natural resource extraction generally point to the economic benefits such development will have both for individuals within our region ...
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Posted on May 20, 2010 By Patrick M. Rogan
I have blogged several times recently about Marcellus Shale drilling projects being planned and implemented throughout our region. Most recently, I wrote about Wayne County; just today, looking ...
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Posted on May 13, 2010 By Patrick M. Rogan
The Times-Tribune reports that as drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale formation becomes a reality throughout much of our region, the Delaware River Basin Commission , which regulates ...
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Posted on Feb 26, 2010 By Patrick M. Rogan
My last blog concerning natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation focused on what has been happening recently in Wayne County, but Monroe County is also beginning to have conversations ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2010 By Patrick M. Rogan
Natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale formation has made news repeatedly this past year. As I have stated before, the mass tort, environmental and real estate/contract litigation ...
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