Marcellus Shale
Resources
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Numerous Marcellus Shale resources are
available here for citizens, municipalities and states who are facing
decisions about gas leases and drilling ordinances related to gas
exploration and production activities, as well as other shale gas 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Rescinded by Pa DEP 2-26-11 |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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An
Exploratory Study of Air Quality near Natural Gas Operations
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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 |
EPA Needs to Improve Air Emissions Data for the Oil and Natural Gas
Production Sector
U.S. EPA Office of the Inspector General 2-20-13 (PDF offsite)
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Estimation of regional air-quality damages from Marcellus Shale
natural gas extraction in Pennsylvania 1-31-13
(offsite)
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How the Texas Natural Gas Boom Affects Health and Safety
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Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of Marcellus shale gas |
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Methane Sampling Survey - Bradford, Lycoming & Tioga Counties
(PDF offsite-4MB) |
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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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Human Health Risks & Exposure Pathways of NY Hydrofracking 10-9-12 |
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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)
'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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Radioactive Waste from Horizontal Hydro-Fracking |
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Radium Content of Oil-
and Gas-Field Produced Waters in the Northern Appalachian Basin
(PDF-1.08MB) |
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Research
guide to shales (website) |
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SHALE & WALL STREET: Was the decline in natural gas prices
orchestrated?
(offsite)
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Shale Gas
Monitoring Toolkit (offsite) |
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The Costs of Fracking (offsite PDF-1.63MB) |
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Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Infant Health: Evidence
from Pennsylvania (PDF-650KB) |
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Utica
Shale Assessment - USGS (offsite 4.1MB)
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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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Act 13 Impact Fee - PUC Implementation - June 2012
(offsite PDF-1.14MB) |
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Act 13 Opinion - July 26, 2012 (PDF-618KB) |
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An Analysis of Unconventional Gas Well Reporting
under Pennsylvania’s Act 13 of 2012
(PDF-528KB)
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Bud George update on Pennsylvania legislation |
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Bureau
of Land Management: Oil and Gas; Hydraulic Fracturing on Federal and
Indian Lands (552KB)
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California Assembly Bill 669 (PDF-323KB)
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Colorado Oil & Gas Spills - HB1278 (PDF-17KB)
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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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Fracking and the Revolving Door in Pennsylvania (Feb-2013
PDF-541KB)
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Gas Well Casing Amendments to Chapter 78 |
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Illinois Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Act -HB2615- Introduced
2-21-13 (200KB-PDF)
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Implications of Act 13 for Health Professionals (PDF - 163KB) |
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Indigenous Mineral Resources Act - Pa (PDF - 77KB) |
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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) |
North Carolina
drilling legislation
North
Carolina Article 27
(NC General Statutes Chapter 113 - 180KB)
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North
Carolina HB242 (6-17-11 86KB)
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North
Carolina HB1064
(5-23-12 168KB)
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North
Carolina HB1185
(5-30-12 14KB)
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North
Carolina SB820
(7-2-12 281KB)
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Ohio drilling legislation
Ohio
SB165 (6-30-10 479KB)
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Ohio
SB315 (9-10-12 576KB)
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Oil & Gas Subsidies |
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Pa. Act 13 of 2012 |
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Pa. Emergency Response Planning at Unconventional Well Sites 1-26-13
Pa. Bulletin
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Pa. Proposed Chapter 78 - Oil & Gas Act - Revisions 1-22-13
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Pennsylvania drilling
legislation
Pennsylvania HB37
(Jan 2011 - 214KB)
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Pennsylvania
HB96 (60KB)
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Pennsylvania
HB97 (62KB)
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Pennsylvania HB351 (60KB)
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Pennsylvania HB495 (56KB)
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Pennsylvania HB661 (54KB)
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Pennsylvania HB799 (57KB)
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Pennsylvania HB800 (56KB)
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Pennsylvania HB801 (57KB)
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Pennsylvania HB882 (60KB)
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Pennsylvania HB950 (59KB)
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Pennsylvania HB986 (57KB)
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Pennsylvania HB994 (65KB)
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Pennsylvania HB1414 (65KB)
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Pennsylvania HB1489 (June 2009 -
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Pennsylvania HR106 (56KB)
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Pennsylvania SB154 (55KB)
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Pennsylvania SB259 (67KB)
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Pennsylvania SB297 (71KB)
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Pennsylvania SB305 (25KB)
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Pennsylvania SB355 (104KB)
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Pennsylvania SB356 (56KB)
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Pennsylvania SB459 (59KB)
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Pennsylvania SB540 (63KB)
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Pennsylvania SB592 (64KB)
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Pennsylvania SB780 (72KB)
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Pennsylvania SB790 (56KB)
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Pennsylvania SB1447 - Moratorium 7-22-10
(July 2010 - 64KB) |
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Pennsylvania Impact Fee - Revised 11-2-12 |
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Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale Scorecard 2011-2012 (PDF) |
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Act |
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling
2-19-09 |
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Potential Budgetary Effects of Immediately Opening Most Federal
Lands to Oil and Gas Leasing (Congressional Budget Office
PDF-201KB) |
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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Summary of Proposed Conceptual Changes, Office of Oil & Gas
Management, Title 25 Pa. Code Chapter 78 Subchapter C. Environmental
Protection Performance Standards (PDF-302KB) |
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The FRAC ACT |
West Virginia drilling
legislation
West
Virginia HB2260 (10KB)
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West
Virginia HB2280 (87KB)
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West
Virginia HB3042 (594KB)
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West
Virginia HB4066 (85KB)
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West
Virginia HB4266 (169KB)
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Virginia HB4267 (84KB)
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Virginia HB4348 (99KB)
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Virginia HB4349 (95KB)
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Virginia HB4350 (166KB)
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Virginia HB4355 (91KB)
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Virginia HB4361 (154KB)
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Virginia HB4362 (170KB)
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Virginia HB4386 (159KB)
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Virginia HB4394 (154KB)
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Virginia HB4637 (88KB)
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West Virginia SB616 (PDF-111KB)
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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 |
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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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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 - 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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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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General Permit WMGR123 Processing & Beneficial Use of Oil & Gas
Waste (PDF-760KB) |
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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 |
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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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Hydraulic Fracturing and Safe Drinking Water Act Issues (661KB) |
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In Fracking's Wake - New Rules are Needed to Protect Our Health and
Environment from Contaminated Wastewater (PDF - 2.34MB) |
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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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NPDES - PennFuture Letter |
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NPDES - Pennsylvania |
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Ohio River Water Quality Trends 2008 |
Pavillion, Wyoming - USGS - May 2012
Groundwater-Quality and Quality-Control Data for Two Monitoring
Wells near Pavillion, Wyoming, April and May 2012 (3.06MB)
Sampling
and Analysis Plan for the Characterization of Groundwater Quality in
Two Monitoring Wells near Pavillion, Wyoming (9.89MB) |
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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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Shale gas development impacts on surface water quality in
Pennsylvania 1-8-13 (PDF offsite)
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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 Audit on Pa. DEP by Auditor General DePasquale 1-15-13
(112KB)
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Water Matters Global Conference - videos |
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Water Pollution Risk Associated with Natural Gas
Extraction from the Marcellus Shale
(PDF offsite) |
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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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Well Site Restoration Report - Pa. (PDF-107KB)
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