My Facebook friend Patrick William Riley put this info re: Marcellus Shale together on his Facebook page and I wanted to share it:
“Citizens and Friends of Garrett County Maryland,
Be advised, The current push for the development of the Marcellus Shale gas deposits under Garrett County will massively impact the quiet rural qualities, clean air and safe well water that many of us value highly. Please be informed and let your voice be heard! These proposed wells are not the wells that we have grown accustomed to since the 1950’s and 60’s.
I am convinced that this development should be stopped until the citizens of Garrett County and our public servants have had through opportunity to study the various impacts caused in other areas where Shale gas development is occurring.
Fracking mobilizes URANIUM in Marcellus Shale !
“…University at Buffalo researchers have now found that that process — called hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”– also causes uranium that is naturally trapped inside Marcellus shale to be released, raising additional environmental concerns.”
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/10/25/fracking.mobilizes.uranium.marcellus.shale
Scientifically Based Clean Energy ?
Looks like COAL is a better Choice —
http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/howarth/Howarth_Energy%20and%20Environment.html
June 4 2010 Marcellus Shale Briefing By MDE for The Maryland State Water Quality Advisory Committee ___
>Dead Linkpatrickwriley@msn.com and I’ll send you the file ! Status of Applications – Locations of exploratory wells http://www.marylandwaterquality.org/Marcellus%20Briefing%20for%20SWQAC.pdf PENN STATE has been funded by Gas companies to promote drilling. Please remember this when you go to meetings where they are involved! http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20100713/NEWS01/7130381/PSU-dean-Marcellus-report-mishandled
Garrett County Resident quoted in Pittsburgh Tribune Review After the film, a resident of Selby’s Port, a small community in Garrett County, Md., one mile from Yough River Lake, said she wanted to see the film because of the hazards of fracking. On March 7,She learned that a gas well was going to be drilled on her neighbor’s property, about 1,000 feet from her kitchen. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/fayette/s_702607.html
Read the Minutes of the Garrett County Planning Commission http://www.garrettcounty.org/PlanningLand/PlanningZoning/documents/min7_10.pdf http://www.garrettcounty.org/PlanningLand/PlanningZoning/documents/min9_10.pdf
Local Laws Tax Changes at the wellhead http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0803e.pdf
Local news To Senator Edwards and Delegate Beitzel, I really hope and pray you have a change of heart on this one!!!!! “• An effort to reduce the distance from a natural gas drilling wellhead from a neighbor’s property to 500 feet from 1,000 feet failed despite its origination from the Maryland Department of the Environment’s Ed Larrimore and the support of Sen. George Edwards. Beitzel said the initiative “wasn’t supported by the administration.” However, “we’ll come back to that one next year,”Beitzel said.” http://times-news.com/local/x1612534154/Beitzel-s-hunting-license-suspension-measure-stalls-in-Maryland-Senate
Local State Legislators seem to support Marcellus Drilling http://times-news.com/archive/x546408583
Do you own a mineral right? http://times-news.com/opinion/x657343753/Law-to-help-people-establish-mineral-rights
Radio active wastewater http://times-news.com/archive/x546412731
http://times-news.com/local/x1800095708/New-state-law-will-allow-landowners-to-regain-mineral-rights
http://times-news.com/archive/x546408937 http://times-news.com/archive/x1540427898
From the Maryland Dept. of the Environment http://www.mde.state.md.us/programs/Land/mining/Non%20Coal%20Mining/Pages/Programs/LandPrograms/Mining/mog/naturalgas.aspx
From the Maryland DNR http://dnr.maryland.gov/irc/bibs/marcellusshale.html
From Pennsylvania — DRILLER CANCELS PERMIT AFTER TRYING TO CIRCUMVENT LOCAL RULES! http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/28/2010/october/21/driller-cancels-permit.html
Sep 30, 5:11 PM EDT Pa. DEP targets Texas driller for tainted water By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Writer DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s top environmental regulator says the state will sue a Houston-based drilling company unless it agrees to pay nearly $12 million to extend a public water line to at least 18 residents whose water wells have been contaminated with methane gas. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GAS_DRILLING_TAINTED_WATER?SITE=NMALJ&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Methane in water wells http://americanagriculturist.com/story.aspx/stray/methane/gas/pops/up/near/marcellus/wells/9/42135
Read the comments on the Pa regulation Changes. http://www.irrc.state.pa.us/Regulations/More.cfm?TypeID=3&IRRCNo=2857%EF%BB%BF
Drilling Noise and Local control http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/s_704795.html
From Colorado — Drilling, Wildlife often don’t mix
http://www.valleyjournal.com/article/20081204/NEWS/812039974/1010/NONE&parentprofile=1001
From Texas — Unwell water Drilling leaves a bad taste for some By Brandon Evans Published Sunday, October 3, 2010 http://www.wcmessenger.com/news/content/EklypuEyukFaSeCoUQ.php
Residents once welcomed the Gas Drilling, Now …Pollution is not welcome http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/12/texas-town-welcomed-drilling-now-fears-pollution.html
Real Estate Values plummet ! Drilling can dig into land value 09:25 AM CDT on Saturday, September 18, 2010 By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe / Staff Writer
DECATUR — One year to the day after a company set up its drilling rigs on their land in eastern Wise County, Tim and Christine Ruggiero confirmed the depth of their loss.
Originally on the 2010 tax rolls for $257,330, their home and 10-acre horse property are now worth $75,240.
http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/westdenton/stories/DRC_DrillValues_0918.1046e9a00.html
Living with a Shale Gas Well
http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/specialprojects/drilling/stories/DRC_Ruggieros_0328.1ee8c9ff0.html
Northeast Pa. MORTGAGES UNAVAILABLE on LEASED PROPERTIES !
http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2010/06/08/pike_county_courier/news/1.txt
West Virginia
Complete coverage in the Wheeling Intelligencer
http://theintelligencer.net/page/category.detail/nav/5233/Digging-Deeper-Into-The-Marcellus-Shale.html
Wetzel County Action Group
http://www.wcag-wv.org/Default.htm
Do You really think you want these problems in Garrett County?
http://blogs.wvgazette.com/watchdog/2009/10/02/what-caused-big-fracking-fluid-spill-in-doddridge-county/
Dumping waste on the roads, a commonly witnessed practice!!!!
http://www.wcag-wv.org/W/WaterPollution/BlakeHawgHauler.htm
General Information
http://www.marcellus-shale.us/
Chemicals used in Gas Drilling
http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/chemicals.introduction.php
Via >Danny L. Bailey
I continue to allege with no resistance/rebuttal from anyone in the industry/local-county-state-federal gov’t,,,that these petroleum companies are not just “fracking” these underground coal beds,,,,,but chemically ” reacting them with inten…tional/permanent injection of toxic chemicals/heavy metal catalyst that slowly dissovle/convert the coal shale into producer gases, mainly methane. In other countries it is referred to for what it really is,,, UCG (underground coal gasification). Here is just one of many “patented” processes for undergound coal bed gasification by first “fracking”,,,,then “reacting” the coal bed with benzene derivatives. Read the patent an compare this process to what you have witnessed personally in your GasLand regions.
Situ Coal Bed Gasification: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3794116.html
Barnett Shale Emission report: http://www.edf.org/documents/9235_Barnett_Shale_Report.pdf
Links to other GasLand fracking reports: http://ozarkanglers.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23731&st=40
Here is the original link to his Facebook info.
