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Oil and Gas (see Marcellus Shale below)

2010

• Allied for the Alleghenies
• What Happens Behind Closed Gates: US Energy in the Quaker Run Watershed
• The Heat Is On In The Allegheny
• Kinzua Heights: Freedom Isn’t Free: Citizens Bear the Cost of Violations by Freedom Oil Ventures
• 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
• ADP Investigation of Oil Spill on FR 261 Finds Spill Not Contained by Tank Battery Dike
• Another Spill on the Allegheny: Catalyst Energy, May 20, 2010, 10,000 Gallons Reported(Erie Times News and 1490 BlogSpot Articles)
• Another Spill on the Allegheny: Howard Drilling, April 2010, 5,400 Gallons (Warren Times Observer)
• Drilling Continues! We Need You for Forest Watch Action!
• Join the Forest Watch Team
• “Kill The Drill” Protest at U.S. Energy’s Buffalo Office!

2009

• Allegheny Defense Project Praises New Legislation to Protect Drinking Water from Oil and Gas Contamination
• Forest Service Public Meetings Not Reaching a Broad Cross-section of People
• Forest Service plans to railroad supplemental Forest Plan analysis
• Tell the Forest Service: Strong Oil and Gas Regulations Needed on National Forests
• Forest Service to revisit Allegheny National Forest management plan
• Forest Service to undertake rulemaking on private oil and gas drilling

2008

• Oil and Gas Drilling Threatens Rimrock Overlook and National Scenic Byway
• Coalition: Storage Tank Oil Spill Underscores Need For More Public Oversight Of Proposed Oil And Gas Developments In Allegheny National Forest
• Allegheny National Forest conservation group files Freedom of Information Act request for Forest Service documents on oil and gas drilling
• Forest Service disregards federal law to avoid regulating oil and gas drilling
• Tell Forest Service to cancel Tract 13 federal oil and gas lease!
• Forest Service evades environmental laws to lease federal minerals
  
• DCNR surrenders to oil and gas industry demands
• TAKE ACTION! Tell Forest Service to Protect Rimrock Scenic Overlook!
• Forest Service wants to give public resources to oil and gas companies
• STOP FOREST SERVICE FROM GIVING AWAY PUBLIC RESOURCES TO OIL INDUSTRY

2007

• TAKE ACTION! DEFEND PENNSYLVANIA’S STATE FORESTS
• DCNR considers lifting moratorium on shallow oil and gas leasing
• Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics surveys oil damage in Allegheny
• LightHawk comes to the Allegheny National Forest
• Forest Service plans to lease federal minerals in “Most Threatened Landscape”
• New Slideshows of the Allegheny National Forest
• Oil and Gas Permit Exemption Degrades our Waterways
• Document Reveals Local Government Concerns about Oil and Gas Drilling
• Allegheny Defense Project’s Aerial Monitoring Takes Off
• Oil & Gas Changes. Where does this leave us?
• Forest Service files objections to oil and gas wells
• Oil, gas drilling called out of control
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Op-Ed

Oil and Gas Litigation

2010

• Oral Argument Heard in Third Circuit Court of Appeals
• Litigation Update
• Federal Court: Allegheny Defense Project, other environmental groups, will still Appeal Disappointing Decision

2009

• Conservation Groups Intervene in Oil and Gas Drilling Lawsuit on Allegheny National Forest
• Forest Service to follow law on Allegheny National Forest
• Federal Judge Upholds Agreement Between Forest Service, Environmental Groups
• ADP notifies House Committee, other officials about escalating rhetoric on ANF
• Forest Service Agrees to Conduct Environmental Review of Oil and Gas Drilling in Allegheny

2008

• Groups Fight to Protect Allegheny National Forest from Fast-tracked Drilling
• ADP Intervenes in Oil and Gas Lawsuit to Defend Allegheny National Forest
• Oil, gas and timber special interest groups file second lawsuit in six months against Allegheny National Forest management

Marcellus Shale

2010

• Injection Well For Marcellus Waste Water. Public Hearing and Comment Deadline Feb. 23!
• The First Must Be The Last: Drilling for Marcellus on the Allegheny National Forest
• November 15, 2010 Letter to John Hanger
• November 23, 2010 Press Release: Department Of Environmental Protection Admits It Has No Authority To Permit Water Withdrawals For Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling In Western Pennsylvania

• Lessons from Pennsylvania: Impact of Marcellus Shale Gas Development on Rivers, Streams and Forests
• Report from The People's Summit
• Atlas Energy Lives Dangerously
• Marcellus Shale Gas Well Hunting in The Branch-Coalbed Run Watersheds
• Letter To John Hanger: PA Department of Environmental Protection Unlawfully Permitting Water Withdrawals (link to Reuters Article, Press Release, and Documents)
• Marcellus Hunting in the Elk State Forest
• Five Marcellus Shale Gas Wells Planned For ANF Lands
• Royal Dutch Shell Buys Substantial Mineral Lease Acreage In The Allegheny National Forest (AP Article)
• Glad Run-South Branch Kinzua Creek: Marcellus Shale Gas Well Planned on Allegheny National Forest
• State Police Join March 20 Oil and Gas Tour
• Gas Well Drilling And Water Quality: Hamlin Township gets the Facts

2008

• Agencies fail to protect Pennsylvania’s forests and watersheds from Marcellus Shale gas boom

Marcellus Shale Events

2010

• Inauguration Day Rally for Clean Water, Clean Air, Clean Land
• Marcellus Shale Protest Nov 3rd Pittsburgh
• Over 1,000 Attend EPA Hearing on Hydraulic Fracturing Study
• Report: GASLAND Screened In Warren And Bradford
• Gasland coming to Warren and Bradford

Logging

2010

• More ClearCuts Proposed. Tell the U.S. Forest Service to Protect the Millstone Creek Watershed
• TIMBER! Forest Service Plans to Log and Herbicide Proposed Morrison Run Wilderness
• Pine Bear: 10,055 Acre Project Area on the Allegheny

2009

• New Year Resolution – No More Clearcutting the Allegheny National Forest

2008

• Forest Service reverses course – approves controversial timber sale
  
• Allegheny Defense Project calls on Forest Service to withdraw logging decisions
• Forest Service withdraws South Branch Kinzua Creek timber sale!
• Tell Forest Service restoration needed, not more logging and drilling
• ADP appeals Forest Service logging and drilling project

2007

• ACTION ALERT: Help Stop the FY07 Regeneration Project
• Protect Wilderness Trout Stream in the Allegheny National Forest

Mining

2008

• Forest Service cancels Stone Pit Expansion Project

Recreation

2009

• Forest Service Cancels Willow Creek ATV Trail Expansion

2008

• Tell Forest Service to keep recreation sites open and operating!
• Coalition condemns Forest Service recreation proposals
• Timberline ATV Trail relocation will not protect timber rattlesnakes
• TAKE ACTION! Help protect timber rattlesnakes from ATV’s

USFS

2009

• Groups push for stimulus spending in Allegheny National Forest

2008

• Forest Service violates Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law
• Allegheny Forest Plan “Does Not Fully Comply” with Federal Law
• Allegheny Front Environmental Radio covers Allegheny National Forest

2007

• Groups Appeal Forest Service Management Plan
• Forest Service Identifies “Most Threatened Areas”
• Allegheny National Forest Plan Out of Balance
• Allegheny National Forest Management Plan

FERC

2010

• Public Meetings for Seneca Project, Kinzua Project Feb 23 and 24 2011

Outings Events/Other

2010

• Suddenly Its October
• Fall Gathering 2010
• Hiking 101 in the Hickory Creek Wilderness
• Adventure On The North Country Trail
• North Country Trail Challenge and Tionesta Small Whorled Pogonia Survey
• Rimrock Chainsaw Massacree (and Tracy Ridge Camp-out)
• April 24th Rimrock and Tracy Ridge Earth Day Clean-Up and Camp-Out
• Earth Day Report 2010
• Rainbows, Helicopters, LEOs, Lovin’ You!
• Snappy the Hellbender Says, “Come to the Forest! Get Active with ADP!”

2009

• Join Us! Tracy Ridge Camp-Out. Allegheny Defense Project 16th Annual Fall Gathering

2008

• Rimrock hike and picnic on Sunday, April 27

Funding

2010

• Thank You Huplits Wildlife Grants Committee, Fund For Wild Nature, and Heartwood!
• Donor will give up to $1,000 in Earth Day Challenge

Organization

2010

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• And We’re Back…
• Now or Never
• Meet the Staff

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