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The Patriot-News last week did a special series of more than a dozen articles on Marcellus Shale natural gas development in Pennsylvania called, “The Shale Bargain.”
The series looked at environmental and economic impacts, specific enforcement, safety and pollution issues as well as infrastructure issues like pipelines needed to bring the gas to market.
Many of the issues raised on enforcement and impacts have already been debated and responded to by DEP and others over the years and the articles included those responses.
There are still a lot of issues, impacts or concerns that have resulted from Marcellus Shale development, but there just wasn’t a lot of totally new information in the series for those who were paying attention.
The articles basically put much of the information we do know in one place and in some cases went into the issues in a little more depth.
Here are links to all the stories--
PennLive Marcellus Series: PA Regulators Fail To Protect Environment
PennLive: DEP Reorganization Meant Less Oversight
PennLive: DEP Recordkeeping Needs To Improve State Officials Say
PennLive: DEP Aware Of Violations Years Before Fining Drillers
PennLive: DEP Not Reporting Full Results In Lab Tests
PennLive: Faulty DEP Reports Set Difficult Precedents For Communities
PennLive: How Drilling Impacted One Rural Community
PennLive: DEP Had Leeway To Go Easy On Shale Drillers
PennLive: Corbett’s DEP Secretary Tells EPA To Back Off
PennLive: Researcher Said DEP Hostile To Work On Drilling Impacts
PennLive: How Politicians, DEP Became Cozy With Drillers
PennLive: Officials Who Started, Ended Up Working For Energy Industry
PennLive: Regulators Caught Unprepared For Natural Gas Mother Lode
PennLive: What Is The Act 13 Drilling Law, Why You Should Care
PennLive: Can Chemical Tracers Help DEP Solve Contamination Cases?
PennLive: Resident With Contaminated Water Hopes For New Trial
PennLive: OSHA Inspects Less Than 3% of Drilling Sites In PA
PennLive: How PA Became Leading Gas Producer, What It Means
PennLive: Q&A With Marcellus Shale Coalition President
PennLive: Marcellus Shale Drilling Brings Economic Boost
PennLive: 7 Major Pipeline Projects In Pennsylvania
PennLive: Several Natural Gas Pipelines Planned For Midstate
PennLive: Guide To Slang From PA Shale Fields
PennLive Graphic: How DEP Operated Under Rendell, Corbett, Wolf
PennLive Graphic: How Does Fracking Work?
PennLive Graphic: Scenes From A Well Site
Column: PennLive Shale Bargain Series Reminder Of Price Of Vigilance
Following Articles:
Trial Over Marcellus Well Discharge Delayed Until 2016
Marcellus Shale Coalition: Fact Checking Patriot-News Series
The Real Shale Bargain: Lowering Consumer Costs, Jobs, Improving Environment
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