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More Hellbender News
16 August 2010
Join Us! 17th Annual Fall Gathering: September 17-19 at Loleta!
The Allegheny Defense Project (ADP) is holding its 17th Annual Fall Gathering at Loleta in the Allegheny National Forest (ANF) September 17-19th. What is the “Fall Gathering”? It’s a family oriented event providing time for Allegheny Defense Project members, supporters and “environmentally conscious” individuals to come together in the fall to camp, hike, eat and learn about issues impacting the Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania’s only national forest...more
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Reuters News: Pennsylvania broke law on natgas water
By Jon Hurdle, PHILADELPHIA | Mon Aug 9, 2010 7:59pm BST
(Reuters) - Pennsylvania regulators are illegally allowing natural gas companies to withdraw water from rivers and streams for use in the Marcellus Shale drilling boom, an environmental group claims.
The Allegheny Defense Project says the state's Department of Environmental Protection has no legal right to permit drillers, as it does, to take millions of gallons of water from rivers in the western part of the state....more
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Marcellus Hunting in Elk State Forest
On July 24, and again on August 8, 2010 Allegheny Defense Project board, staff, and volunteers visited the Elk State Forest to view the EOG Marcellus Shale gas drilling sites in the our state forest lands. Elk State Forest currently has over 16 permitted wells in Mckean County. We visited the area of the forest south of Kersey to check on a cluster of permits that we learned about from the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Rig Report data. According to documents recovered in our July 8, 2010 file review at DEP, EOG plans to drill 500 wells in Clearfield and Elk Counties within the next four years, just in the Susquanna River Basin.....more
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Hiking 101 in the Hickory Creek Wilderness
On July 31, 2010, I met up with old and new friends for an overnight backpacking trip in the Hickory Creek Wilderness. Our trip started at the Whole Foods Cooperative Association in Erie, PA, where seven of us had met and planned the event through the Cooperative's Education Program the previous month....more
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Litigation Update
Over the past two and a half years, seven lawsuits have been filed against the Forest Service regarding its regulation (or lack thereof) of oil and gas drilling on the Allegheny National Forest. The oil and gas industry filed six of those lawsuits claiming the Forest Service has no authority to protect Pennsylvania’s only national forest from the damaging impacts of oil and gas drilling....more
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