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Interior Considers Fracking Regulations; PA Says Radioactivity Levels Normal

The Department of the Interior is considering enacting regulations on the natural gas drilling process known as fracking, as Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has announced test results showing that river waters downstream of fracking operations have normal or lower amounts of radioactivity. Interior secretary Ken Salazar told a ... Read more »

Halliburton Discloses ‘Fracking’ Fluids, Unveils ‘Green’ Product

Just several days after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a subpoena to Halliburton to force the company to share information about its hydraulic fracturing process, Halliburton announced the launch of a new Microsite that discloses the materials content of its hydraulic fracturing fluids. The company also unveiled a ... Read more »

EPA Finalizes Emissions Reporting Rules for Petroleum, Natural Gas Plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized rules that will require oil and gas facilities and some electronics manufacturing plants to report on their greenhouse gas emissions next year, as part of the agency’s mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, reports The New York Times. The federal agency also has issued ... Read more »

Gas Shale and Hydraulic Fracturing Work for Our Nation

Recent distress in the nation’s economy has not dampened the new natural gas boom sweeping up the Appalachians. Until recently, natural gas could not be economically produced from “tight” rock formations like the Marcellus Shale stretching from Western New York into Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. The widespread use of ... Read more »

Wyoming First State to Require Chemicals Disclosure for Natural Gas Drilling

Wyoming has implemented new rules that require natural gas drillers to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking, but fall short of full transparency, according to two citizen groups. Under the new Wyoming rules companies must submit to the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission a complete list of chemicals ... Read more »

Environmental Group Claims Marcellus Shale Drilling Illegally Uses Water in PA

The Allegheny Defense Project claims that Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is illegally permitting natural gas companies to withdraw water from rivers and streams for use in the Marcellus Shale drilling boom, reports Reuters. The environmental group says the state’s DEP does not have a legal right to permit drillers ... Read more »

‘Green Machine’ Recycles Wastewater Used in Hydraulic Drilling Process for Natural Gas

The practice of hydraulic drilling – which has caused PR tremors for ExxonMobil and XTO Energy – contaminates close to 4 billion gallons of water during drilling per day industrywide, says HBC Systems. This practice, also known as fracturing or “fracking” to access gas shale deposits, drove HBC to develop an ... Read more »

Chesapeake Energy Changes Natural Gas Drilling Over Water Concerns

Due to environmental concerns over safe drinking water, Chesapeake Energy Corp. has agreed not to drill for natural gas within the New York City watershed, a small area within the Marcellus Shale natural gas reserve, which includes some of the Appalachian regions of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland and West ... Read more »


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