Tag archive for ‘DEP’
Water pipeline info request costs boro (0)
1/26/11 •
BY STACI WILSON Montrose borough will have to pay over $2,700 if it wants to receive the documents council requested from the Department of Environmental Protection in December. Prompted by concerns over the borough’s water supply council requested the documents before DEP scrapped its plan to have a water pipeline run from Montrose to about [...]
Settlement draws criticism, praise (0)
12/22/10 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer A settlement reached on Wednesday between the Department of Environmental Protection and a Houston-based gas driller has raised questions among critics about how strongly the state will defend its enforcement actions against an increasingly influential industry even as supporters applauded the agreement as a victory for common sense. The settlement [...]
Some Dimock folks see ‘dirty tricks’ in Cabot document (0)
12/22/10 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer Legal releases delivered Thursday by the gas company deemed responsible for methane contamination in Dimock Twp. water wells have some township residents accusing the driller of using “dirty, dirty tricks” to try to free itself of a lawsuit pending in federal court. Early Thursday morning, attorneys for Cabot Oil and [...]
Anti-pipeline meeting draws large crowd (0)
10/27/10 •
BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Opponents to a water pipeline planned to alleviate contaminated water wells on Thursday had their meeting shouted down by those who would benefit from the pipeline. About 450 people packed the Elk Lake High School auditorium for the meeting called by a group which dubbed itself as “Enough Already.” The majority [...]
DEP pledges public water (0)
10/06/10 •
State to install $11.8M line, sue Cabot for cost if necessary BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer Pennsylvania’s head environmental regulator committed Thursday to installing an $11.8 million public water line for at least 18 families whose water supplies have been contaminated by methane from natural gas drilling. Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger said [...]