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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Work on Wyoming County's first natural gas well is under way. The pad for the first well is being constructed on the Ed Skoronski property along Route 292 in Northmoreland Township. According to the state Department of Environmental Protection website...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner At last Wednesday's Wyoming County Planning Commission meeting, members discussed what options local officials have regarding natural gas well drilling. Commission member Randy Ehrenzeller, who is also an Eaton Township supervisor, wondered if municipal...
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BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer It takes tons of water, steel and cement to coax natural gas from the tight shales that hold it more than a mile underground. Sometimes, it also takes catfish. Among the new businesses Penn State Cooperative Extension educator Tom Murphy saw cropping up to service...
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BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer Cabot Oil and Gas began storing dozens of 55-gallon drums marked "methanol" on a Susquehanna County lot last winter about 100 feet and a crumbling fieldstone wall away from Matthew Nebzydoski's backyard and his 4-year-old daughter's swing set. A...
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BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner SCRANTON - As natural gas drilling progresses in the area, the concerns from both residents and the gas companies are evolving. According to three experts speaking in Scranton on Tuesday, that's due to increased experience with the drilling process...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner Pauline McConnell has signed a lease with Chesapeake Energy for access to natural gas under her property in Auburn Center. Fearful from recent reports of elevated levels of methane gas discovered in wells in Dimock Township, McConnell had her well water...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner Ronald Carter is looking forward to royalty revenue he will receive from a natural gas well located about 500 feet from his property line in Dimock Township. The 69-year-old man, however, is also worried that natural gas drilling by Cabot Oil and Gas Corp...
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BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer A state environmental review board voted Tuesday, Dec. 16, to increase the permit application fee for Marcellus Shale natural gas wells from $100 to an average of $2,600, the first gas well permit fee increase in 24 years. The proposal still needs clearance from...
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BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer DIMOCK TWP. - On a gravel drilling site where Cabot Oil and Gas recently completed a natural gas well- one of six currently in development on Ken Ely's 183 acres- the landowner pointed to tears in a plastic waste pit liner, water dripping from a tanker and a...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner The Susquehanna River Basin Commission on Thursday granted approval for Citrus Energy to use millions of gallons of water in Wyoming County for natural gas drilling. During a meeting at Harford Community College in Maryland, the interstate commission granted...
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BY ELIZABETH SKRAPITS Times-Shamrock Writer The Marcellus Shale formation, one of the largest in the world, is rich in natural gas, but accessing it requires millions of gallons of water. Natural gas companies need permission from the Susquehanna River Basin Commission before they can take water from...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner The natural gas industry is having a lasting affect on the real estate industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Not only has speculation on the potential of the Marcellus Shale helped to increase land values, natural gas leases have also affected the sale...
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BY JOSH MROZINSKI Wyoming County Press Examiner BINGHAMTON , N.Y. - The Susquehanna River Basin Commission got an earful of comments last Wednesday about proposed regulations that govern water withdrawal for natural gas drilling. At a public hearing at the State University of New York campus a number...
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