On November 1st, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection published a Notice of Proposed Agreement, page 6994, to clean up parts of Dunkard Creek, a small river that runs through Greene County, Pennsylvania and Monongalia County, West Virginia. The agreement between the DEP and Dana Mining Company of Pennsylvania, LLC, […]
Miscellaneous
The Potential Dangers of Hydraulic Fracturing and Induced Earthquakes
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracing, is relatively new to the Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio region with most wells being drilled in the past decade. The act of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas involves drilling deep into the ground and pumping water and chemicals into fractures in rock formations, […]