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Marcellus Shale
Resources
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Numerous Marcellus Shale resources are
available here for citizens and municipalities who are facing
decisions about gas leases, township ordinances related to gas
drilling activities, and other Marcellus issues. Additional
documents and resources will be added to this Marcellus Shale
Resource page as they become available.
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Air Quality |
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Air Quality document 12-25-10 -
Rescinded by Pa DEP 2-26-11 |
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American Lung Association letter to Lisa Jackson - 11/30/11 (PDF
offsite- 801KB)
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Barnett Shale Air Quality Report by Al
Armendariz, Ph.D |
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DISH, Texas - Letter from the Mayor |
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DISH Texas Air Quality Study - Sep 2009 |
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DISH Texas Documents - Health Study/Air
Quality |
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DISH Texas Health Survey - Dec 2009 |
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How the Texas Natural Gas Boom Affects Health and Safety
(PDF-1MB)
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Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of Marcellus shale gas |
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Minimizing the Air Impacts of Marcellus Shale Activity in Allegheny
County, Pa |
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Strategies to Address Global Warming |
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Drilling Information |
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A Paleontological Perspective on a Modern Resource
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Affirming GASLAND |
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Chemical & Biological Risk Assessment for Natural Gas Extraction in
New York 1-21-11 draft
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EPA Comments regarding New York gas drilling |
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Fracture Lines: Will Canada's water be
protected in the rush to develop shale gas? |
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Get the Answers Before Signing a Lease |
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Golden Algae Economic Impacts |
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Hancock and the Marcellus Shale |
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Impacts of Gas Drilling on Human & Animal Health (PDF -
513KB)
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Labor Statistics - Oil & Gas Industry |
"Landman
Handbook" (PDF-318KB)
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'Mysterious notebook' found in Ohio, source unknown |
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Law Applicable to Hydraulic Fracturing in the Shale States |
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NRDC Petition to EPA re: Regulation of
drilling wastes |
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Pennsylvania Ethics Commission -
Conflict of Interest - Rules & Restrictions |
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Pennsylvania Frac Fluids |
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Pennsylvania Wastewater Plants |
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Pennsylvania Wastewater Treatment Regulations |
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Potential Leaks from Hydro-Fracking of
Shale |
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Radioactive Waste from Horizontal Hydro-Fracking |
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Will natural gas fuel America in the 21st Century? (PDF offsite) |
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Drilling Legislation |
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Bud George update on Pennsylvania legislation |
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Drilling Deep, Deep Pockets in Congress (PDF offsite)
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European Union study -
Impacts of Shale Gas and Shale Oil Extraction on the Environment and
on Human Health
(offsite PDF-1.48MB)
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Forced Pooling in Pennsylvania -
Proposed Act |
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Forced Pooling in Pennsylvania? |
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Gas Well Casing Amendments to Chapter 78 |
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Pa. HB 1950 Text
Pa. HB 1950 Senate Amendments
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Natural gas extraction from the Marcellus formation in Pennsylvania:
Environmental impacts and possible policy responses for state parks
(PDF - 1.2MB)
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New York DEC - New Recommendations Issued in Hydraulic Fracturing
Review (43KB) |
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Oil & Gas Subsidies |
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Pennsylvania HB37 - January 2011 |
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Pennsylvania HB1489 Amended 6-09 |
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Pennsylvania SB1447 - Moratorium 7-22-10 |
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Act |
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling
2-19-09 |
Preliminary Revised Draft – New York State DEC
Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement
On the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program |
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The FRAC ACT |
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Frac Fluids |
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Acrylonitrile MSDS |
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Acrylonitrile MSDS harmonized version |
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Endocrine Disruptor List from TEDX
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Finger Lakes, NY Frac Fluid Report |
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Frac Fluid Summary for Pennsylvania -
4-09 |
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Frac Fluid Summary - Pa DEP - 6-10-10 |
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Frac Listing for Marcellus Shale |
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Frac Sand MSDS |
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Hydraulic Fracturing 101 |
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PA DEP Frac Fluid List - 12-08 |
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Toxic Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing (offsite)
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Gas Drilling & Road
Ordinances |
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- Pennsylvania - |
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Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania - Conditional Use Request
for Welling Compressor Station - Planning Commission - Draft |
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Cecil Township, Pennsylvania Gas
Drilling Ordinance |
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Cecil Township, Pennsylvania Road
Ordinance draft |
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Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania Gas
Resources Ordinance |
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Cross Creek Township, Pennsylvania Gas Drilling Ordinance |
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Jackson Township, Pennsylvania Gas
Drilling Ordinance |
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Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania Gas
Drilling Ordinance - Draft |
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Mountain Lake Park, Maryland Gas
Drilling Ordinance - Draft |
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Mt Pleasant Township Pennsylvania - Gas Zoning Ordinance - Draft |
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Murrysville, Pennsylvania Gas Drilling
Ordinance - Draft |
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Nockamixon Township, Pennsylvania Gas
Drilling Ordinance |
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Nottingham Township, Pennsylvania Gas
Drilling Ordinance - Draft |
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North Strabane, Pa Gas Drilling
Ordinance Draft - Conditional Use |
Overview of Current Pennsylvania Law Related to Local Ordinances
Affecting the Use of Land
for Drilling Oil & Gas Wells (PDF-121KB)
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Peters Township, Pennsylvania Gas
Drilling Ordinance - 2nd Draft |
Peters Township Gas Drilling Ordinance - Draft (PDF - 152KB)
Peters Township Gas Drilling Overlay - Draft (PDF - 1.26MB) |
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Pittsburgh's Community Protection from
Natural Gas Extraction Ordinance |
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Range Resources Mt Pleasant Zoning Appeal for bunk trailers on
drilling sites |
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South Fayette Township Pennsylvania Gas
Drilling Ordinance - Draft |
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South Franklin Township, Pennsylvania
Oil & Gas Wells |
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South Strabane
Twp.- Gas Drilling Ordinance Draft (PDF offsite)
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Upper Burrell Township, Pennsylvania Gas
Drilling Ordinance - Draft |
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Upper St Clair Township, Pennsylvania
Gas Drilling Ordinance draft |
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Zoning & Land Development Ordinances |
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Aztec, New Mexico Gas Ordinance |
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Bloomfield, New Mexico Gas Ordinance |
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Lovington, New Mexico Gas Ordinance |
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Otero County, New Mexico Gas Ordinance |
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Rio Arriba County, New Mexico Gas
Ordinance |
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Sante Fe, New Mexico Gas Drilling
Ordinance |
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- Texas - |
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Gas Drilling Ordinance Comparison in
Texas |
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Gas Drilling Ordinance Recommendations
by Fort Worth League |
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Arlington, Texas Gas Drilling Ordinance |
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Bedford, Texas Gas Drilling Ordinance |
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Burleson, Texas Gas Drilling Ordinance |
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Colleyville, Texas Gas Drilling
Ordinance |
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Decatur, Texas Gas Drilling Ordinance
draft |
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Flower Mound, Texas Gas Drilling
Ordinance draft |
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Fort Worth, Texas Gas Drilling Ordinance
2-10-09 |
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Fort Worth, Texas Gas Drilling Ordinance
2-3-09 |
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Fort Worth, Texas Gas Drilling Ordinance
1-1-09 |
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Fort Worth, Texas Gas Drilling Ordinance
12-16-08 |
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Fort Worth, Texas Gas Drilling Ordinance 6-21-06 |
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Midlothian, Texas Gas Drilling Ordinance
7-24-07 |
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Westlake, Texas Gas Drilling Ordinance |
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Drilling Company Taxes |
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Over 70% of Marcellus Shale Wells Will be Subject to 3.07% Personal
Income Tax – Not the Corporate Net Income Tax |
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Pennsylvania Severance Tax Distribution
Outlook |
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MSDS - Material Safety
Data Sheets |
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MSDS - Field Grade Butane |
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MSDS - Mixed Butane |
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MSDS - Normal Butane |
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MSDS - Frac Sand (Silica Sand) |
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MSDS - Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) |
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MSDS - Mercaptan |
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MSDS
- Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) |
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MSDS - Natural Gasoline (Drip Gas) |
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MSDS - Produced Water (Sour) |
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MSDS -
Propane |
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MSDS -
Sour Gas |
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Pipelines |
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An interstate natural gas facility on my land? What do I need to
know? (offsite) |
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Bartonville, Texas Oil & Gas Pipeline
Standards |
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FERC - Blanket Certificate Program - Notice to Landowners |
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Flower Mound Texas Oil & Gas Pipeline
Standards |
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LWV Tarrant County Gas Pipeline Recommendations |
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Line N - National Fuel Gas (NFG) - SW
Pennsylvania |
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Violations |
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Williams Gas Pipeline - Transco Fine 8-10-09 |
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- Brush Run Creek, Washington County, Pa - |
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Brush Run Creek - DEP Spill-Fish Kill Report -
10-7-09 |
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Brush Run Creek - DEP Lab Water Analysis
from 10-7-09 Spill |
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- Cross Creek Lake, Washington County, Pa - |
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Letter informing Range of Special Protection Watershed 10-9-08 |
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Cross Creek Lake - DEP Inspection Report
5-27-09 |
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Cross Creek Lake - Range Resources
Report 6-3-09 |
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Cross Creek Lake - DEP Fish Kill Water Analysis
5-27-09 |
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Range
Resources Consent
Assessment of Civil Penalty
9-23-09 |
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Cabot - Consent Order & Agreement -
11-4-09 |
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Cabot - Consent Order & Agreement
Modification - 4-15-2010 |
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Ohio O&G Violations - 7-1-10 |
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Atlas Resources overflow at Cowden #17 12-5-09 |
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DEP gas drilling violations database |
Gas drilling DEP violations from 1-1-10 through
6-18-10
Also:
Clean Water Action's analysis of the statistics |
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PALTA's gas drilling violations report
8-2-10
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offsite |
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- Susquehanna River - |
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Susquehanna River Basin Fines 10-28-09 |
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Water Management Plans |
Allegheny Defense Project - Pa DEP is
unlawfully permitting water withdrawals due to riparian rights
common law.
Press Release 7-26-10
Letter to DEP Secretary Hanger 7-26-10 |
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Atlas Resources, LLC Water Management
Plan |
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Eastern American Energy Corporation
Water Management - Whiteley Creek |
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Pa. Fish & Boat Commission Executive Summary - Three Rivers Management Plan
(PDF-1.06MB) |
Water Management Plans - SW Pennsylvania DEP Regional Office
10 counties: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Cambria, Fayette, Greene,
Indiana, Somerset, Washington and Westmoreland |
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Water Quality |
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Beaver Falls Municipal Authority -
Trihalomethane alert |
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Brush Run Creek - Spill Water - Lab
Analysis |
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Chesapeake Energy’s Response to EPA’s 5-12-11 Request for
Information on Marcellus Shale Flowback Water (PDF offsite)
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Clean Water Act |
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Drinking Water Standards - EPA Oct. 2009 |
Duke University Reports
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Flammable
Drinking Water Linked to Fracking (DUKE PDF-980KB offsite)
Fracking Recommendations (PDF-253KB offsite) |
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Dunkard Creek - EPA Report - 11-09 |
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EPA Investigation of Ground Water Contamination in Pavillion,
Wyoming (PDF offsite-15.1MB) |
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EPA
letter to PA DEP Re: Drilling wastewater in PA waterways (708KB)
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Ernst v. Encana Corp.
(offsite) |
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How the Texas Natural Gas Boom Affects Health and Safety
(PDF-1MB) |
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Letter from EPA to PADEP 5-12-11 Re: Water Quality Standards
[PDF 2 pp, 756k]
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North Sewickley Township Water Authority
- Trihalomethane alert |
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Not So Fast, Natural Gas |
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NPDES - PennFuture Letter |
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NPDES - Pennsylvania |
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Ohio River Water Quality Trends 2008 |
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Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law |
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Pennsylvania Conservation District
Handbook |
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Pennsylvania Council of Trout Unlimited
2-09 |
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Pennsylvania Dam Safety |
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Pennsylvania Wastewater Plants |
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Pennsylvania Wastewater Treatment Requirements - Proposed |
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Private water well contaminated in DISH,
Texas after hydraulic fracturing |
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Stream Monitoring |
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Tri-County Joint Municipal Authority -
Trihalomethanes - 2009 report |
Voluntary Sampling Data from Pa. Oil
& Gas Wastewater Treatment Facilities
Dannic Energy Effluent Sampling - 4/7/11 (PDF) [5 pp, 293k]
Dannic Energy Effluent Sampling - 4/19/11 (PDF) [4 pp, 268k]
Dannic Energy Effluent Sampling - 7/19/11 (PDF) [4 pp, 267k]
Hart Creekside Effluent Sampling - February 2010 (PDF) [1 pg,
13k]
Hart Resource Technology Effluent Sampling - 3/22/11 and 4/5/11
(PDF) [9 pp, 208k]
Hart Resource Technology Outfall 401 Effluent Sampling - 4/19/11
(PDF) [3 pp, 68k]
Hart Resource Technology Outfall 501 Effluent Sampling - 4/19/11
(PDF) [3 pp, 76k]
Pennsylvania Brine Effluent Sampling, Franklin - May, June, July
2011 (PDF) [12 pp, 1.8MB
Pennsylvania Brine Effluent Sampling, Franklin - August and
September 2011 (PDF) [9 pp, 1.4MB]
Pennsylvania Brine Effluent Sampling, Josephine - May, June, July
2011 (PDF) [19 pp, 2.1MB
Pennsylvania Brine Effluent Sampling, Josephine - August and
September 2011 (PDF) [24 pp, 2.7MB]
Tunnelton Liquids Effluent Sampling - 4/18/11 and 5/3/11 (PDF)
[2 pp, 63k] |
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Warren Ohio wastewater treatment plant
comment from NRDC 11-4-10 |
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Washington County, Pennsylvania
watersheds |
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Waste regulation recommendations to EPA from
NRDC 9-8-10 |
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Wastewater discharges at Josephine |
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Wastewater river dumping at Warren, Ohio (offsite)
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Water Matters Global Conference - videos |
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Water Quality Standards - Pennsylvania |
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West Virginia DEP Memo - Land
applications prohibited until further notice |
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Written Testimony of Conrad Daniel Volz, DrPH, MPH before the Senate
Committee on Environment & Public Works April 12, 2011
(PDF-50KB) |
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DEP Files and Gas Well Files |
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Cross Creek 14H |
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Cross Creek 15H |
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Cross Creek 16H |
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Cross Creek 14H, 15H, 16H |
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PA DEP Letter to Producers - 3-21-11 |
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Pa. Dept of Environmental Protection RESCISSION of the Pa. Dept
Conservation & Natural Resources Evaluation of Impacts of Oil & Gas
Development on Pennsylvania State Parks and State Forests on
February 19, 2011 (PDF - 89KB) |
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