Month: November 2010

60 Minutes video on Marcellsu Shale.

Shale Gas Drilling: Pros & Cons
November 14, 2010 12:34 PM

While some complain that extracting natural gas from shale rock formations is tainting their water supply, others who have allowed drilling on their property are getting wealthy. Lesley Stahl reports…

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7054210n&tag=contentMain;contentBody#ixzz167v6ckVI

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My Facebook friend Patrick William Riley put this info re: Marcellus Shale together on his Facebook page and I wanted to share it:

“Citizens and Friends of Garrett County Maryland,

Be advised, The current push for the development of the Marcellus Shale gas deposits under Garrett County will massively impact the quiet rural qualities, clean air and safe well water that many of us value highly. Please be informed and let your voice be heard! These proposed wells are not the wells that we have grown accustomed to since the 1950’s and 60’s.

I am convinced that this development should be stopped until the citizens of Garrett County and our public servants have had through opportunity to study the various impacts caused in other areas where Shale gas development is occurring.

Fracking mobilizes URANIUM in Marcellus Shale !

“…University at Buffalo researchers have now found that that process — called hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”– also causes uranium that is naturally trapped inside Marcellus shale to be released, raising additional environmental concerns.”

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/10/25/fracking.mobilizes.uranium.marcellus.shale

Scientifically Based Clean Energy ?

Looks like COAL is a better Choice —

http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/howarth/Howarth_Energy%20and%20Environment.html

June 4 2010 Marcellus Shale Briefing By MDE for The Maryland State Water Quality Advisory Committee ___

>Dead Linkpatrickwriley@msn.com and I’ll send you the file ! Status of Applications – Locations of exploratory wells http://www.marylandwaterquality.org/Marcellus%20Briefing%20for%20SWQAC.pdf PENN STATE has been funded by Gas companies to promote drilling. Please remember this when you go to meetings where they are involved! http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20100713/NEWS01/7130381/PSU-dean-Marcellus-report-mishandled

Garrett County Resident quoted in Pittsburgh Tribune Review After the film, a resident of Selby’s Port, a small community in Garrett County, Md., one mile from Yough River Lake, said she wanted to see the film because of the hazards of fracking. On March 7,She learned that a gas well was going to be drilled on her neighbor’s property, about 1,000 feet from her kitchen. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/fayette/s_702607.html

Read the Minutes of the Garrett County Planning Commission http://www.garrettcounty.org/PlanningLand/PlanningZoning/documents/min7_10.pdf http://www.garrettcounty.org/PlanningLand/PlanningZoning/documents/min9_10.pdf

Local Laws Tax Changes at the wellhead http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0803e.pdf

Local news To Senator Edwards and Delegate Beitzel, I really hope and pray you have a change of heart on this one!!!!! “• An effort to reduce the distance from a natural gas drilling wellhead from a neighbor’s property to 500 feet from 1,000 feet failed despite its origination from the Maryland Department of the Environment’s Ed Larrimore and the support of Sen. George Edwards. Beitzel said the initiative “wasn’t supported by the administration.” However, “we’ll come back to that one next year,”Beitzel said.” http://times-news.com/local/x1612534154/Beitzel-s-hunting-license-suspension-measure-stalls-in-Maryland-Senate

Local State Legislators seem to support Marcellus Drilling http://times-news.com/archive/x546408583

Do you own a mineral right? http://times-news.com/opinion/x657343753/Law-to-help-people-establish-mineral-rights

Radio active wastewater http://times-news.com/archive/x546412731

http://times-news.com/local/x1800095708/New-state-law-will-allow-landowners-to-regain-mineral-rights

http://times-news.com/archive/x546408937 http://times-news.com/archive/x1540427898

From the Maryland Dept. of the Environment http://www.mde.state.md.us/programs/Land/mining/Non%20Coal%20Mining/Pages/Programs/LandPrograms/Mining/mog/naturalgas.aspx

From the Maryland DNR http://dnr.maryland.gov/irc/bibs/marcellusshale.html

From Pennsylvania — DRILLER CANCELS PERMIT AFTER TRYING TO CIRCUMVENT LOCAL RULES! http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/28/2010/october/21/driller-cancels-permit.html

Sep 30, 5:11 PM EDT Pa. DEP targets Texas driller for tainted water By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Writer DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s top environmental regulator says the state will sue a Houston-based drilling company unless it agrees to pay nearly $12 million to extend a public water line to at least 18 residents whose water wells have been contaminated with methane gas. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GAS_DRILLING_TAINTED_WATER?SITE=NMALJ&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Methane in water wells http://americanagriculturist.com/story.aspx/stray/methane/gas/pops/up/near/marcellus/wells/9/42135

Read the comments on the Pa regulation Changes. http://www.irrc.state.pa.us/Regulations/More.cfm?TypeID=3&IRRCNo=2857%EF%BB%BF

Drilling Noise and Local control http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/s_704795.html

From Colorado — Drilling, Wildlife often don’t mix

http://www.valleyjournal.com/article/20081204/NEWS/812039974/1010/NONE&parentprofile=1001

From Texas — Unwell water Drilling leaves a bad taste for some By Brandon Evans Published Sunday, October 3, 2010 http://www.wcmessenger.com/news/content/EklypuEyukFaSeCoUQ.php

Residents once welcomed the Gas Drilling, Now …Pollution is not welcome http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/12/texas-town-welcomed-drilling-now-fears-pollution.html 

Real Estate Values plummet ! Drilling can dig into land value 09:25 AM CDT on Saturday, September 18, 2010 By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe / Staff Writer

DECATUR — One year to the day after a company set up its drilling rigs on their land in eastern Wise County, Tim and Christine Ruggiero confirmed the depth of their loss.

Originally on the 2010 tax rolls for $257,330, their home and 10-acre horse property are now worth $75,240.

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/westdenton/stories/DRC_DrillValues_0918.1046e9a00.html

Living with a Shale Gas Well

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/specialprojects/drilling/stories/DRC_Ruggieros_0328.1ee8c9ff0.html

Northeast Pa. MORTGAGES UNAVAILABLE on LEASED PROPERTIES !

http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2010/06/08/pike_county_courier/news/1.txt

West Virginia

Complete coverage in the Wheeling Intelligencer

http://theintelligencer.net/page/category.detail/nav/5233/Digging-Deeper-Into-The-Marcellus-Shale.html

Wetzel County Action Group

http://www.wcag-wv.org/Default.htm

Do You really think you want these problems in Garrett County?

http://blogs.wvgazette.com/watchdog/2009/10/02/what-caused-big-fracking-fluid-spill-in-doddridge-county/

Dumping waste on the roads, a commonly witnessed practice!!!!

http://www.wcag-wv.org/W/WaterPollution/BlakeHawgHauler.htm

General Information

http://www.marcellus-shale.us/

Chemicals used in Gas Drilling

http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/chemicals.introduction.php

Via >Danny L. Bailey

I continue to allege with no resistance/rebuttal from anyone in the industry/local-county-state-federal gov’t,,,that these petroleum companies are not just “fracking” these underground coal beds,,,,,but chemically ” reacting them with inten…tional/permanent injection of toxic chemicals/heavy metal catalyst that slowly dissovle/convert the coal shale into producer gases, mainly methane. In other countries it is referred to for what it really is,,, UCG (underground coal gasification). Here is just one of many “patented” processes for undergound coal bed gasification by first “fracking”,,,,then “reacting” the coal bed with benzene derivatives. Read the patent an compare this process to what you have witnessed personally in your GasLand regions.

Situ Coal Bed Gasification: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3794116.html

Barnett Shale Emission report: http://www.edf.org/documents/9235_Barnett_Shale_Report.pdf

Links to other GasLand fracking reports: http://ozarkanglers.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23731&st=40

Here is the original link to his Facebook info.

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Megan Miller
The Cumberland Times-News Mon Nov 22, 2010, 07:51 AM EST

— FROSTBURG — Money, water quality and the Marcellus shale are issues on a lot of Western Marylanders’ minds, if the attendance at two Thursday night meetings in Garrett County is any indication.

Approximately 90 people packed into the cafeteria of Route 40 Elementary School for a public meeting on the subject hosted by the Savage River Watershed Association.

The tone of the discussion was mainly skeptical of the natural gas extraction process, and many speakers expressed concerns over its potential impact on the quality of water and of life in the county.

Eric Robison of the group Save Western Maryland said he was skeptical of the Maryland Department of the Environment’s ability to properly regulate the process.

“I really am concerned about how MDE … is going to be reacting to this,” he said. “This is completely new, and as far as I know they haven’t even written the book on this yet.”

Meanwhile, on the same night, approximately 40 people gathered in the Friendsville Town Hall for a meeting organized by Chief Oil & Gas, a company currently seeking to drill four Marcellus shale natural gas wells in the Friendsville area.

Chief has already secured most of the land leases it will require for those wells and is now pursuing permits required for preparation to drill, according to spokeswoman Kristi Gittins.

The company hopes to apply for its drilling permits in about two weeks, she said.

But first, Gittins said, the company is working on permits for seismic testing, which will allow its engineers to determine the best paths for steering the drills. It has also begun developing an erosion and sediment control plan for the county.

Gittins said the purpose of Thursday’s meeting — the first such the company has held in Garrett County — was “introducing ourselves and explaining how we plan to do business in the area.”

“We had landowners, city council members and the mayor of Friendsville there,” she said. “Both landowners that were leased to us and not leased to us.”

According to Gittins, Chief has been involved in extracting natural gas from shale formations since the mid-1990s, and started drilling its first well in the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania in 2007.

The company now has about 100 wells drilled, and though slightly less than half of those are producing gas, it is collecting an average of 100 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.

Friendsville councilman Jess Whittemore said he was impressed with the polish of Chief’s presentation, in a meeting the company had declared was not public but which was attended by town and county officials and a mix of supporters and opponents of Marcellus shale drilling.

“The environmentalists were hammering them with all the smart questions and they had all the answers,” Whittemore said. “I learned an awful lot about it. They made me think that it could potentially be safe.”

But Whittemore, a self-described environmental advocate and skeptic of Marcellus shale drilling, said he still feels concerned that not enough is known about the impact of the process on the land and water.

“Us dumb people, including the people who run the state of Maryland, we’re sort of at their mercy,” he said. “I just hope the state of Maryland has people to keep us safe. … I think there could very well be not enough government study on this, and (drilling companies) are able to say these things because there’s no proof against it.”

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