U.S. GAO – Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: Key Environmental and Public Health Requirements
November 13, 2012
U.S. GAO – Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: Key Environmental and Public Health Requirements.
LWVCO Hydraulic Fracturing Study
November 12, 2012
Hydraulic Fracturing Study
At the 2011 LWVCO convention, the delegates voted to have a study on Hydraulic Fracturing. A committee was formed and work began in the summer of 2011. After assessing other state leagues studies on hydrofracturing, it was decided that LWVCO would do a study rather than a concurrence in order to address coal bed methane and water quantity issues, not covered in other leagues’ studies.
All documents are in PDF format unless otherwise marked.
EPA’s study of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources.
November 10, 2012
Greetings,
This is an update on EPA’s study of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources.
In today’s Federal Register , EPA announced it is accepting information through April 30, 2013, including data, studies, scientific analyses and other pertinent scientific information related to the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources.
This information will help to ensure EPA is current on evolving hydraulic fracturing practices and technologies as well as inform current and future research and ensure a robust record of scientific information
Consistent with the Agency’s commitment to using the highest quality information in its scientific assessments, EPA prefers that people submit information that has been peer reviewed. EPA will consider all submissions, but will give preference to peer reviewed data and literature sources.
There are several ways to submit information to the docket for this request. Be sure to include the docket identification number Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2010-0674 on every submission.
For more information about EPA dockets visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets/.
For more information about EPA’s hydraulic fracturing study, visit http://www.epa.gov/hfstudy/.
Thank you for your interest in EPA’s study of hydraulic fracturing and its potential impacts on drinking water resources.
Study of the the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources: Overview for Roundtable Meetings
November 8, 2012
hf-webinar-2012.pdf (application/pdf Object).
Study of the the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic
Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources:
Overview for Roundtable Meetings
The EPA Study is due to report, at end 2012, status of the study with a final (draft) report in 2014.
What is here (in PDF) is the current activities that presumably will lead directly to the 2012 interim report.
This all is important re the rdSGEIS and draft Regulations for HVHZHF in Shale in NYS;
That is, one could well assert that NYS ought wait until the final EPA report in 2014 – timing that would coincide nicely with the likely settlement of the appeals of the Dryden/Middlefield “Home Rule” litigation.
It seems to me unlikely that the Cuomo administaration would want to move ahead with Dryden/Middlefield in limbo.
SS 11/8/12
PA DEP Oil & Gas Reporting Website – Statewide Data Downloads By Reporting Period
November 8, 2012
PA DEP Oil & Gas Reporting Website – Statewide Data Downloads By Reporting Period.
This database shows that much PA unconventional drilling waste is coming to NY for disposal
Spreadsheet showing waste transported to NY from PA Chesapeake wells from Jan to June, 2012. Most is drill cuttings deposited in Painted Post and Niagara Falls landfills.
PSECementFailureCausesRateAnalysisIngraffea.pdf (application/pdf Object)
November 6, 2012
PSECementFailureCausesRateAnalysisIngraffea.pdf (application/pdf Object).
Summary of the Ingraffea paper:
The most recent experience with shale gas wells in the Pennsylvania Marcellus play reflects long term, world-wide industry data with respect to new wells with compromised structural integrity. Operator-wide statistics in Pennsylvania show that about 6-7% of new wells drilled in each of the past three years have compromised structural integrity. This apparently low failure rate should be seen in the context of a full buildout in the Pennsylvania Marcellus of at least 100,000 wells, and in the entire Marcellus, including New York, of twice that number. Therefore, based on recent statistical evidence, one could expect at least 10,000 new wells with compromised structural integrity. It is too early to discern whether the other industry experience with this technical problem, an increase in loss of integrity with well age, will also be reflected. However, at play in modern shale gas development are many of the key factors identified by industry researchers as having a negative influence on well structural integrity: the need for deviated wells, rapid development of a field, presence of “shallow” high-pressure gas horizons, and disturbance of young cement due to adjacent drilling activities on the same pad.
GDACC 
