This is THE issue I voted against Corbett on.
2011-02-25 20:09:13
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We Don't Need No Stinkin' Environment!
From the Post-Gazette:
Pa. suspends air pollution controls at drilling sites
Friday, February 25, 2011
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Just a week after repealing a policy requiring an environmental assessment of Marcellus Shale gas well permit proposals in state parks, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has announced it is suspending and reconsidering key air pollution controls governing the drilling industry.
The latest policy changes, detailed in today's Pennsylvania Bulletin where official state actions are listed, would eliminate a December guideline that regulates emissions from all well operations in a region together, which could result in stricter pollution controls than if the wells are regulated individually.
The department is soliciting public comments on "whether any guidance or policy should be considered on this topic, and, if so, what such a policy or guidance might provide."
The DEP also is seeking public comment on a policy adopted last summer that regulates emissions from non-road, "stationary engines," including natural gas compressor station engines, which can be diesel or natural gas-powered and can be sources of smog producing emissions.
"This is troubling," said Jan Jarrett, president and chief executive officer of Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, a statewide environmental group that has campaigned for a state severance tax on Marcellus Shale gas production. "These are the first Marcellus policies the Corbett administration is trotting out and it appears they are all rolling back environmental protections related to the gas industry."
More details in tomorrow's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Don Hopey: dhopey@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1983.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11056/1127950-113.stm#ixzz1F0EDcklY
2011-02-25 20:00:48
I saw the headline and didn't even click.
PA DEP has a new meaning - PA Department of Environmental Pillaging.
2011-02-25 20:09:52
email: Vtrivedi@state.pa.us
Written comments should be submitted to Virendra Trivedi, Environmental Engineer Manager, New Source Review Section, Division of Permits, Bureau of Air Quality, 12th Floor, Rachel Carson State Office Building, P.?O. Box 8468, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8468. The Department will accept comments submitted by e-mail, but comments submitted by facsimile will not be accepted. A return name and address must be included in each e-mail transmission. Comments must be received by the Department by May 26, 2011. Contact: Questions regarding the draft technical guidance document should be directed to Jeanette Van Skike at jvanskike@state.pa.us or (717) 787-4325.
there are three separate but related notices regarding oil and gas drilling that may require your attention. full details: here.
2011-02-25 22:16:20
they also want to rescind the quarantine on the emerald ash borer. wtf?
2011-02-25 22:17:41
I would like to direct this to the distinguished Governor of the State of Pennsylvania: You lousy cork-soaker. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a fargin icehole...like yourselve.
2011-02-25 22:25:15
Good article on Marcellus shale in the NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/us/27gas.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
2011-02-28 19:56:30
Remember radon?
2011-03-03 02:58:15
Today's NYTimes had a story "above the fold."
2011-03-03 03:00:27
From today's Post-Gazette, an easy-to-understand overview of bromides. Nothing quite like reading "cancer," birth defects" and "drinking water" in the same sentence.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11072/1131660-113.stm
2011-03-13 16:15:15
Well, at least they're asking nicely. Don't want to be rude and make these silly regulations a requirement or anything. From today's PG:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11110/1140547-503.stm
2011-04-20 11:36:22
I like how they "ask" them to "voluntarily stop". 'Cause we know how well that's gone in the past. "Pretty please, stop poisoning people you don't know or care about..."
It's like "asking" motorists to follow traffic laws or "asking" politicians to act in the best interest of their constituents rather than their pockets, or "asking" for virtually any other act of selflessness from entities who perceive none other than self.
The whole issue is mentally and now apparently physically sickening.
2011-04-20 13:45:14