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DEP violations for Marcellus Shale gas wells, January 1, 2007 through September 30, 2010. With updated Marcellus Shale violation, production, and well data for Pennsylvania on our DataTool, it is now possible to determine which of the drilling operators are the best and worst corporate citizens. Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale Violations Data by Operator. Please note […]
By: C. D. Volz, DrPH, MPH John Dawes of the Environmental Integrity Project put up a very useful dataset onto FracTracker’s DataTool showing the geographical location of congressional districts. I have visualized this dataset along with locations of violations of the PA Oil and Gas Act across the state. One can get further information on […]
Analysis by Offending Versus Drilled Wells This map shows Marcellus Shale and other oil and gas violations issued between 1-1-2007 and 9-30-2010. [map removed] In a recent post, I examined the relationship between different types of wells in Pennsylvania and the number of violations per offending well. This post expands on that theme by examining the […]
Utah Oil and Gas Industry Overview [image removed] Utah Oil and Gas Wells. Click on the map for more information. I pursued oil and gas data from Utah due to the accessibility of the relevant information, and because a map of major shale gas plays indicate several formations of interest in the state, notably […]
Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Industry Overview Oil and Gas Wells in Pennsylvania since 1998. Click on the image for more details. [image removed] The extraction of oil in Pennsylvania has been ongoing since before the Civil War, and the natural gas industry is also well established. The boom in production due to the hydraulic […]
West Virginia Permits and Wells According to their website, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Office of Oil and Gas is responsible for over 55,000 active and 12,000 inactive oil and gas wells in the state. To obtain a scope of the Marcellus Shale activity, I queried that state’s online permit and well […]
Three new datasets have been added to our DataTool: Utah Oil and Gas Violations, West Virgina Spills, County by Year, and West Virginia Spills Data. The Utah dataset contains information including violation type, and oil and gas related injury and fatality records. The West Virgina Spills, County by Year dataset is a set up to […]
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) responded to our request for oil and gas violation information with a list of 9,370 violations from January 1, 2007 through September 30, 2010. That works out to almost seven oil and gas violations statewide per day. Certainly, the DEP has been taking its job very seriously in […]
On December 4, 2024, FracTracker Alliance and Halt the Harm Network hosted the 10th Annual Community Sentinel Awards for Environmental Stewardship.
Pipeline incidents are more common, more dangerous, and more underreported than you might realize. This articles investigates a critical infrastructure system plagued by daily disasters and raises serious questions about data integrity and public safety. Read on to discover the full extent of the problem.
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