Local gas pipelines, pooling, safety discussed

By Monica Pryts/Staff Writer Allied News Allied News Tue Nov 26, 2013, 04:39 PM EST MERCER COUNTY AREA — A former board member of the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters who’s been traveling the state to educate landowners about pipelines and related gas and oil...

Fracking Health Project Puts Numbers to Debate

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A project examining the local health impacts from natural gas drilling is providing some of the first preliminary numbers about people who may be affected, and the results challenge the industry position that no one suffers but also suggest the...

Pitt Institute of Politics’ Shale Gas Roundtable Released Findings

Pitt Institute of Politics’ Shale Gas Roundtable releases its findings, including proposing an independent shale gas research fund modeled after Boston’s Health Effects Institute, which has been advising the Roundtable. “The roundtable found that scientific research...

Shale Production at All-Time High

By Anya Litvak / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Marcellus Shale producers may bemoan the low price of natural gas, but production marches forward. In the first half of this year, companies broke another record and produced 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas, according to new...