StateImpact PA: Tioga Commissioners’ Meeting Dominated By Methane Questions
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Scott Detrow of WITF's StateImpact PA reports the Williamsport Sun-Gazette reports a Tioga County Commissioner’s meet­ing was dom­i­nated by ques­tions about Shell’s Union Township methane migra­tion prob­lems, which StateIm­pact Penn­syl­va­nia pro­vided an update on Monday.

Town­ship res­i­dent Tom Cochran, who attended the meet­ing, said his con­cern was that “after the blowout up here, when they tested, they only tested for methane, and the res­i­dents were expect­ing a bit more thor­ough water test.

Photo: Methane geyser 5 days after it first appeared in Tioga County.


8/6/2012

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