Articles Tagged With 'Wastewater'

Pennsylvania’s Drilling Wastewater Released to Streams, Some Unaccounted For

by Nicholas Kusnetz
ProPublica, Jan. 5, 2011, 9:20 a.m.

As gas-drilling operations proliferated in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale over the past couple of years, most of the hundreds of millions of gallons of briny wastewater they produced was eventually dumped into the state’s rivers. Much of the rest is unaccounted for.

Gas Drillers Plead Guilty to Felony Dumping Violations

by Sabrina Shankman
ProPublica, Feb. 22, 2010, 10:59 a.m.

Two men face possible prison time and steep fines for dumping wastewater into an abandoned oil well in Pennsylvania.

2: Joaquin Sapien and Sabrina Shankman on Gas Drilling Wastewater

by Mike Webb
ProPublica, Jan. 20, 2010, 2:30 p.m.

Drilling Wastewater Disposal Options in N.Y. Report Have Problems of Their Own

by Joaquin Sapien and Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica Dec. 29, 2009, Midnight

A New York report on drilling in the Marcellus Shale lists options for disposing of the wastewater, but the operators of those facilities say those options aren't feasible.