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More Hellbender News
5 June 2010
North Country Trail Challenge and Tionesta Small Whorled Pogonia Survey
On the weekend of June 18-20 you are invited to join the Allegheny Defense Project in the North Country National Trail ANF Chapter's Allegheny 100 Challenge. The ADP (including you!) will take up the challenge! During the course of the weekend hike as much of the trail as possible and support ADP's Forest Watch work by having friends and family sponsor you by the mile, or simply sponsor the ADP 's Forest Watch Coordinator.
On June 19 wander off the trail with us for a Small Whorled Pogonia Survey in the Tionesta Scenic & Research Natural Areas....more
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Royal Dutch Shell Buys Substantial Mineral Lease Acreage In The Allegheny National Forest
Shell Pays 4.7B For Marcellus Firm
May 29, 2010
By Andrew Maykuth, Inquirer Staff Writer
Royal Dutch Shell P.L.C. became the latest big international player to buy a stake in the Marcellus Shale when it announced Friday that it would pay $4.7 billion for East Resources Inc., a Pennsylvania company that has morphed into a hefty natural-gas operator. In buying East Resources, whose headquarters is in Warrendale, Pa., Shell will acquire about 1.05 million acres of gas leases, including 650,000 acres of Marcellus Shale rights in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York.
East Resources, which is based in Allegheny County, is most active in Tioga County, in north-central Pennsylvania, and also owns substantial acreage in Allegheny National Forest....more
Source: http://tinyurl.com/29j8sg6
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Kinzua Heights: Freedom Isn't Free. Citzens Bear Costs Of Violations By Freedom Oil Ventures, LLC
An Allegheny Defense Project (ADP) Forest Watch Team finds multiple, flagrant violations in a new oil and gas drilling site in Brothwell Run on the Allegheny National Forest. On May 22, 2010 the Forest Watch Team participating in our first training session investigated Kinzua Heights area of Brothwell Run, which has been hit hard by oil and gas drilling in the last few years. Residents living in the area had been hearing loud machinery noises during the day and long into the night. We traveled down FR 147, and FR 625 to discover the "Liberty" Farms of Freedom Oil Ventures, LLC of 4801 Lang NE STE 110, Albuquerque, NM 87109....more
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Two Years After Spill, Site Still At Risk: ADP Investigates Snyder Brothers 2008 Oil Spill Sites; Finds Valves Still Unlocked and Evidence of More Spills
A team of Allegheny Defense Project (ADP) volunteers discovered that all is not well on FR 267 and FR 269, the sites of a major oil spill two years ago. At these sites, disgruntled former employees of Snyder Brothers, Inc. let loose more than 40,000 gallons of oil that fouled Indian Run, Chappel Fork Creek, and the Allegheny River Reservoir. On May 22, 2010 ADP staff, board, and volunteers visited the sites involved in the spill, observed that the there have been subsequent dike breeches, and that the valves on the same tank batteries that were tampered with in 2008 are still unlocked two years later....more
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Another Spill On The Allegheny: Catalyst Energy, May 20, 2010, 10,000 Gallons
Vandals Spill Crude Oil in Forest County
May 22, 2010
1490 News Blog
More than 10,000 gallons of crude oil spilled out of three oil storage tanks in Forest County Thursday morning when vandals opened the valves on them, and then a fire started during the cleanup effort...more
Source: http://1490newsblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/vandals-spill-crude-oil-in-forest.html
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