How do you respond to complaints about tap water ‘catching fire’, houses exploding, water contaminated?
Shallow natural gas – or methane – has historically been, and continues to be, present in communities across Pennsylvania. This [...]
Where will we hunt and fish once you have turned the rest of our state into a congested dust bowl with truck-stops, man-camps, bad roads, and high levels of toxic smog and polluted streams?
Like you, a great deal of the men and women in Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry enjoy the outdoors. We also [...]
Will a water purification bottle render water taken from a stream where frack fluids were dumped safe to drink?
As you may know, a host of regulatory safeguards and requirements, as well as advanced technologies, are in place to [...]
What is the short term adverse impact on air quality during construction (site preparation, drilling, ROW clearing, pipeline installation, etc.)?
Like most any industrial process, nominal amounts of emissions – albeit short-term – are emitted during the natural gas development [...]
What are the long term effects to the environment? Pollution of the ground/soil, water?
Natural gas has a number of positive both short- and long-term effects for our environment. In the short-term, natural gas [...]
What’s being done so the gas doesn’t pollute the water wildlife and the environment?
As noted in other questions and as outlined in the Marcellus Shale Coalition’s Guiding Principles, there is no higher priority [...]
What is the H2S content of fractille sources natural gas?
Hydrogyn sulfide, or H2S, is a regionally based geologic feature that has not been an issue in the Marcellus Shale [...]
I was in Wellsboro and the forest is destroyed to install pipelines. How can we make sure that revenue is generated for state and local governments to make this OK?
Two of our Recommended Practices focus on this topic—Pipeline Boring and Site Planning, Development and Restoration—and the exhaustive measures we [...]
What are the cumulative effects on streams from the extensive new road system being built by the gas industry?
Well site planning and development, including road construction related to oil and gas development, is regulated by numerous government agencies. [...]
What is the current “standard of care” that the drillers adhere to when it comes to maintaining a pollution free site and pollution free environment?
Thanks so much for asking. The Marcellus Shale Coalition Guiding Principles state the following: We, the members of the Marcellus [...]
