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Dilemma in the Marcellus Shale: How dispose of radioactive oil and gas waste?
2014-10-11 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A few months ago, a Marcellus Shale operator approached Leong Ying, business development manager at the radiation measurement division of Thermo Fisher Scientific, with a problem. The driller, whom Mr. Ying declined to name, was trying to dispose of oil and gas waste at area landfills but the trucks kept tripping radiation alarms. Rejected trucks had to be sent back to well pads or taken out of state, both costly options. It was happening enough that it started nudging the companys bottom line,...
Documents Show Drilling Activist Info-Sharing Between Police, Marcellus Shale Operators
2014-10-09 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
City Paper: Anti-fracking activists protesting a natural-gas conference in Philadelphia last fall were being monitored by a private security company that sent a photo of a demonstrator to the Pennsylvania State Police, according to an email obtained by Pittsburgh City Paper. A few months earlier, at another industry-led conference, state trooper Michael Hutson delivered a presentation on environmental extremism and acts of vandalism across Pennsylvania's booming Marcellus Shale natural-gas reserves. He showed...
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Third Frontier grants Ohio University $1.45M for shale wastewater cleaning project
2014-10-09 05:38:33| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Ohio Third Frontier approved $1.45 million for Ohio University researchers to finalize and commercialize a method to treat produced well water on-site. If the project is successful, natural gas drillers in the Utica shale play could have less reliance on oft-maligned underground injection wells, the lead researcher says.
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Shale Boom Tested as Sub-$90 Oil Threatens U.S. Drillers: Energy
2014-10-08 12:05:16| Energy - Topix.net
The U.S. shale boom is producing record amounts of new oil as demand weakens, pushing prices down toward levels that threaten to reduce future drilling. Domestic fields will add an unprecedented 1.1 million barrels a day of output this year and another 963,000 in 2015, raising production to the most since 1970, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Shale Boom Tested Sub-$90 Oil Threatens U.S. Drillers
2014-10-08 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The U.S. shale boom is producing record amounts of new oil as demand weakens, pushing prices down toward levels that threaten to reduce future drilling. Domestic fields will add an unprecedented 1.1 million barrels a day of output this year and another 963,000 in 2015, raising production to the most since 1970, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The Energy Departments statistical arm forecasts consumption will shrink 0.2 percent to 18.9 million barrels a day this year, the...
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