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  • Marcellus Shale Drillers Under-Reported Waste

    - by Anya Lit­vak and Maxwell Rad­win, August 31, 2014, The Post-Gazette EQT Corp. told the Penn­syl­va­nia Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion that it sent 21 tons of drill cut­tings from its Mar­cel­lus Shale wells to area land­fills in 2013. But land­fills in south­west­ern Penn­syl­va­nia told a dif­fer­ent story. Six facil­i­ties in this part of the state report­ed receiv­ing near­ly 95,000…

  • Energy Justice Summer: Standing With Communities in the Shalefields

    - by Ener­gy Jus­tice Summer This sum­mer youth have gath­ered in the shale gas region of North­east­ern Penn­syl­va­nia to facil­i­tate train­ings, com­pile reports, and to fight for the safe­ty of landown­ers, work­ers, and the environment. Ener­gy Jus­tice Sum­mer is based in Susque­han­na Coun­ty in order to direct­ly con­nect with the com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers impact­ed by shale gas…

  • Shale Gas: Not the Wise Choice for Pennsylvania

    I was asked to sub­mit this piece by the North­east Penn­syl­va­nia Ener­gy Jour­nal, a pro-frack­ing mag­a­zine fund­ed entire­ly by gas indus­try ads that’s insert­ed in our local news­pa­pers. The piece will be print­ed with an indus­try rep­re­sen­ta­tive’s counter argu­ment that shale gas is good for Penn­syl­va­nia and the climate. Pow­er Shift Shale­field Tour by Alex Lotor­to,…