The natural-gas drilling boom in the Marcellus Shale could be the key to ending a six-year hiatus in air service between Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport and the second largest city in Pennsylvania.
A bi-partisan state senate resolution passed to study the demand for natural gas service in the Commonwealth State Senate Resolution 29 was unanimously passed by the Pennsylvania State Senate on March 11th that directs the Center for Rural Pennsylvania to study the potential need for residential, commercial and industrial natural gas service in the Commonwealth.
For all the public discussions that have occurred in the past two years accompanying the surge in Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling activity in Clinton County, the one thing that has been missing is the actual science behind efforts.
The Sierra Club and some other environmental groups are harshly criticizing a new partnership that aims to create tough new standards for fracking.
Some of the world's biggest energy companies are collaborating with the country's biggest environmental groups in an unusual alliance to improve protections for groundwater, air quality and the climate from drilling in Appalachian shale.
Part of EQT Corp.'s effort to increase demand for the natural gas that it's extracting from the Marcellus Shale appears to be paying off.
A Nicholson Township man who claims the company installing a natural gas transmission pipeline through his farm pumped contaminated water into the pasture area near his cattle was ordered Thursday to allow the company onto his property to conduct soil and water sampling.
Some of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies have made peace with environmentalists, agreeing to a voluntary set of tough new standards for fracking in the Northeast that could lead to a major expansion of drilling.
Natural gas production in Pennsylvania averaged 6.1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2012, up from 3.6 Bcf/d in 2011, according to Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) data released in February 2013.
The state is looking to spend $5 million in fees generated from Marcellus shale drillers to ease housing shortages in areas that have been flooded by a migrating stream of industry workers.
