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Posts from ‘February, 2009’

More on Explosion / Gas in Well Water

There is a recent Gannet news report on gas from Devonian shale formations (which includes the Marcellus shale) being found in four drinking water wells in Susquehanna County, PA. How did gas gas from 6,000 feet deep make its way into ground water near the surface? According to this article, one theory is that gas [...]

DEC Releases Scoping Document

The final scoping document for the Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement on the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program has just been released by the DEC. The pdf files that you can download are on the right hand side of this page. I will post more comments after reading through it. Susan Riha, [...]