Clearvilles Blog Natural Gas Drilling Truths

Dr. Conrad Voltz is our “Environmental Health Hero” in PA! Read this news release from Pittsburgh Post Gazette! Cheers for terrifying tears!

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Katy Gresh said seven treatment plants, including six in southwestern Pennsylvania, have ceased processing fracking waste. She couldn’t say for sure their reasons for doing so.

Mr. Perciasepe testified that some wastewater plants are ill-suited to treat the fluid, which is mostly water but also includes a cocktail of chemicals that would be dangerous in drinking water. The state has demanded additional and frequent testing for harmful contaminates at facilities that treat fracking fluids and public water suppliers downstream from them, though its tests last fall showed no abnormal radioactivity.

Mr. Perciasepe testified that possible solutions for treatment plants would be to put new constraints on plants that treat fracking waste, or to pre-treat the wastewater before it arrives.

Jeff Cloud, the vice chairman of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, testified that in his state, fracking waste is barred from being processed at treatment plants. This prompted Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., who chaired the hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, to wonder why this isn’t the case in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

The answer is partially due to geology.

In Oklahoma and other states, leftover fluid can be re-injected into abandoned wells. This is not possible in Pennsylvania because the geology doesn’t permit deep well injections.

Conrad “Dan” Volz, of the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public Health, testified that the waste could go to sites in Ohio, but it’s more convenient for Pennsylvania companies to dispose flowback water in nearby treatment plants. And, he said, it was an “oversight” by DEP to allow it.

A critic of DEP and of environmental impacts of the Marcellus Shale drilling boom, Dr. Volz recently announced he is leaving Pitt because the administration was trying to muzzle his views.

“I was told not to talk about a lot of Marcellus Shale issues that are very politically sensitive, and I wasn’t willing to do that,” he said in an interview after the hearing, adding that he might return to consulting.

Dr. Volz testified about his study finding that a creek in Indiana County, located near a treatment facility that took on flowback water, had a slew of contaminates. An industry group discounted the study as isolated and limited to an area with no impact on drinking water or other human activities.

Much of the hearing focused on the debate over whether federal or state authorities should be the primary regulators of fracking. The process is exempt from federal oversight except when diesel fuel is used in fracking or when the EPA sees an imminent danger.

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., testified before the committee on the merits of his bill that would give EPA oversight over the practice. Instead of regulations of varying strength across different states, Mr. Casey said, “I’m in favor of a national standard.”

Support for and criticism of his FRAC Act broke on predictable partisan lines, with Democrats backing Mr. Casey and Republicans opposed.

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a leading EPA critic, lauded the economic benefits of increased natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania and other states.

“A virtual boom in natural gas development is transforming America’s energy security — due in no small measure to the absence of federal regulation,” he said.

Daniel Malloy: dmalloy@post-gazette.com or 1-202-445-9980. Follow him on Twitter at PG_in_DC.
First published on April 13, 2011 at 12:00 am
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11103/1138930-455.stm#ixzz1JR2Jrm64

TV MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42561038/ns/local_news-pittsburgh_pa/

Go Professor Go. Make this Professor our new PA Governor?

Letter to President Obama & Penn State

Letter to President Obama before he visits Penn State.
Go to this website!
http://clearville.wordpress.com/

October 12, 2010 Will the Senate give your property to the gas industry in PA?

http://clearville.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/clearville-says-contact-your-senators-before-october-12-2010-the-gas-industry-wants-property-with-no-gas-leases/

Don’t cry over “Spilt Poison” after the


week of October 12, 2010


The gas industry wants the Senate to give them all

Pennsylvania properties which now have no gas leases.

That’s right, properties which now have no gas leases, is that you?



Will the Senate enact a ”Swift & Hidden Secret Toxic Agenda” for your property?



Read between the lines of those Senators with political gas industry contributions and what they

plan to sneak attack on you for their Texan partners.

The gas industry will glady take your property, inject drilling poisons underground

and you know what happened in Dimock, Hickory, Clearfield and Clearville?



And you know that a future

pollution headline could be you and your property and



you will always remember the next glass of water you never trust



because 90 percent of the toxic gas drilling fluids injected remained underground.

The Senate will vote the week of October 12, 2010.

What will you do to protect your property from the invasion of toxic chemicals?

Let the record show that “You” contacted your Senators and told them to vote “No”

to “Forced Pooling” because it violates your PA Constitutional Rights to own and protect property.

Tell the senators to say no to any legislation which takes away private property rights for private

for profit corporate gas industry ventures.

Contact your Senators now….the week of October 12, 2010 is rolling in.

“Your property now with no gas lease; could belong to the gas industry, after October 12, 2010″

Don’t get caught crying over “Spilt Poison” or “Will You”?


Click here for more information on “Forced Pooling”




http://www.protectmyrightspa.org/FAQ.html


Protect your private property from toxic ventures.

Click here to find your

senator: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/find.cfm

Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS: There's a leak in Bartonville, Texas on top of the Barnett Shale

Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS: There's a leak in Bartonville, Texas on top of the Barnett Shale

CLEARVILLE Shares Prewater Testing Tips near Natural Gas Drilling

"AN MBAS FRACKING CLAN JOURNEY"

Natural gas drilling in your future?

Water pollution perhaps around the corner as shown in this picture?

If you see suds in your water after drilling begins and you don't have a certified lab prewater testing for MBAS, you can't prove water pollution wasn't pre-existing prior to natural gas drilling.

The MBAS anionic surfactant, man made suds, SHOWN ABOVE, came from natural gas drilling foam. MBAS was joined by other toxic fracking chemicals in the "MBAS Fracking Clan Journey" traveling into Sideling Hill Watershed, PA.

http://www.youtube.com/clearvilletimes

Be prepared to deal with fracking pollution, get a good water pretest by a state certified lab using some of the "Water Pretesting Tips" listed at this website:

http://clearville.wordpress.com/

Clearville Landowner Report - Seeing is believing.

Newly built Steckman Ridge Compressor Station Emergency Shutdown August 23, 2009, Clearville, PA

What is released from natural gas compressor stations when there is an emergency shutdown and everything is vented into the atmosphere with a lubricant type oily substance? Just the oily lubricant? Should the PADep do their own plume study or accept a private company plume study as evidence of what occurred?

Air pollution also in Clearville, PA?
Watch this youtube video showing an oily substance released from the compressor station on a township road during the emergency shut down at this newly built compressor station.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Et-DmYD_k

Read about some of the air emissions which landowners believes were released along with the oily substance all of which are being claimed as a little event based on a private plume study?

http://clearville.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/clearville-landowners-report-on-hazardous-air-emissions/

An excerpt from a PA web link states:
Section 2. Declaration of Policy.--(a) It is hereby declared to be
the policy of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to protect the air
resources of the Commonwealth to the degree necessary for the (i)
protection of public health, safety and well-being of its citizens;
(ii) prevention of injury to plant and animal life and to property;
(iii) protection of the comfort and convenience of the public and the
protection of the recreational resources of the Commonwealth; (iv)
development, attraction and expansion of industry, commerce and
agriculture; and (v) implementation of the provisions of the Clean
Air Act in the Commonwealth

http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/aq/regs/apca.pdf