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A Look at Drill Waste Pits and Groundwater by Melissa Troutman, Laurel Dammann, and Joshua Pribanic “It was 2007, and my water well was fine. I mean, I didn’t have any problem with it. I was cooking, drinking, [...]
Triple Divide: The Judys
Shoveling Water: Predrill Tests
This story was updated on January 4, 2012. What if a predrill water well test conducted during the biggest boom for natural gas became meaningless? At least one predrill test in Pennsylvania has been deemed insufficient by natural [...]
Drinking Dimock: A Glass Full of Gas Water
If the case of groundwater contamination by natural gas drilling in Dimock, Pennsylvania sets precedent for how the state deals with damaged private water wells, they may not require that the party responsible for the contamination restore your water permanently, [...]
Chesapeake Energy Helps Pennsylvania Afford Study of Natural Gas Blowout
Chesapeake Fixes Water Well After Blowout to “Be a Good Neighbor” Well Incident Shares Anniversary with BP Gulf Spill, Both Failed Wellheads Manufactured by Cameron International According to Chesapeake Energy (CHK) and its consultant SAIC, the company is [...]
Chesapeake Energy Misinformed Shareholders About Impact of Well Blowout
Chesapeake’s Environmental Assessment of Well Blowout is Attained Through a Conflict of Interest In an October 15, 2011 news release, Chesapeake Energy stated “the public was never in danger ” when a well blowout, also called a well [...]
Natural Gas Pollution: What Chesapeake Energy and Department of Environmental Protection Concluded about Towanda Creek Blowout
This is the first story in a three part investigation of how natural gas pollution is being handled in Pennsylvania. In a Public Herald file review of an environmental assessment report submitted by Chesapeake Energy about the Atgas [...]