Source: Reuters, May 11, 2011 Posted on: http://news.yahoo.com By: Braden Reddall and Ben Berkowitz From water worries to well blowouts, the inherent risks of oil and gas extraction are often played down by those in the business. But another group of profit-seekers has every reason to keep a close eye on dangers for drillers: their […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, May 7, 2012 By: Jack Buehrer As an engineer who specializes in natural-gas pipeline safety, Richard Kuprewicz has never been more in demand. Amid unprecedented production of natural gas and crude oil in the United States alone, Kuprewicz is busy fielding questions from contractors, engineers, federal regulators and the media about the safety […]

Read here about a Pennsylvania judge who halted a section of a Marcellus Shale law that limits municipalities from regulating the natural gas exploration industry.

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 30, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The seven municipalities that banded together in recent weeks in opposition to the state’s Marcellus Shale gas drilling law filed a suit Thursday, arguing that lawmakers unconstitutionally intruded on local zoning duties by mandating where drilling can occur. The municipalities — Cecil, Peters, Mount Pleasant and […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, March 19, 2012 By: Jack Buehrer As New York intensifies its debate over whether to employ hydraulic fracturing techniques to recover shale-gas deposits in the Marcellus shale formation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is sticking to his pledge to “let the science and the facts” determine if the state’ should lift a two-year moratorium on fracking. […]

Source: http://www.usatoday.com, February 23, 2012 By: Dennis Cauchon Aaron Dinnin’s last job was as a prison guard. Before that, he was a roofer. Today, the 33-year-old West Virginian works in a shale gas field near his home and earns more money than ever before. “This is the best job I’ve ever had,” he says. Expansive […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 12, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com (From The Wall Street Journal) Some energy companies, state regulators, academics and environmentalists are reaching consensus that natural-gas drilling has led to several incidents of water pollution — but not because of fracking. The energy officials and some environmentalists agree that poorly built wells […]

Source: http://www.csindy.com, January 26, 2012 By: Pam Zubeck On a brisk morning in mid-October, El Paso County Commissioner Dennis Hisey and two county staffers took a trip. They joined an Ultra Resources engineer, geologist and land manager on a private jet bound for the Pinedale Anticline, an 80-square-mile area in southwest Wyoming that’s rich with […]

Read here about fines being sought from a Pennsylvania drilling company for polluting a stream.

Source: http://www.pittsburghlive.com, January 24, 2012 Two environmental groups and McKeesport’s municipal authority have settled a federal lawsuit that claimed the city was violating state and federal environmental laws by treating wastewater from Marcellus shale drilling operations, according to court documents. Attorneys for both sides and representatives for the city, the municipal authority, Clean Water Action […]

Source: http://www.riskandinsurance.com, January 10, 2012 By: Jared Shelly State regulators have asked for a moratorium on injection wells from fracking. Opponents of hydraulic fracturing often vehemently declare that the natural gas drilling process leads to unsafe drinking water in homes around fracking sites — sometimes the water is so gaseous it can be lit on […]

Read here about how opponents of hydraulic fracturing in New York are looking to enact local laws to ban the practice.