Join the League of Women Voters PA, Central Delaware County League of Women Voters, Energy Justice Network, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Chester NAACP, and Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living for a January 12 webinar on LNG Natural Gas Export Terminal Safety starting at 7:00 p.m.

Environmental experts will present details on the safety hazards of Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Export Terminals, facilities built specifically to receive natural gas from transmission pipelines, liquefy it, store it, and transfer the LNG to ships for export to other countries

Speakers include--

-- Tracy Carluccio is Deputy Director of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, where she has worked as an environmental advocate since 1989. Carluccio works for the Watershed’s protection of communities, both human and nonhuman, addressing water quality, healthy habitats, streams, and communities, defending its exceptional values, and restoring where needed.

-- Fred Millar is a public interest and environmental safety advocate, national policy analyst, lobbyist, trade union strategic researcher, educator, and consultant based in the Washington, D.C., area. Mr. Millar is a consultant to major U.S. chemical and oil worker unions, environmental groups, insurance companies, university and governmental bodies, USW, the District of Columbia Council, and the NJ Attorney General. In recent years, his focus has been on LNG disaster risks.

-- Mike Ewall is the founder and Executive Director of the national organization Energy Justice Network, which supports communities to stop dirty energy and waste facilities and to transition to clean energy and zero waste management systems.

Click Here to register for this free event.

DEP Public Notice Dashboards:

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 17 to 23 [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 48 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In The Dec. 24 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

Related Articles This Week:

-- Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Navy Veterans Patrick & Helen Robinson Relate Their 7-Year Struggle Dealing With Impacts Of Mariner East Pipeline Construction In Indiana County, And They Continue  [PaEN]

-- Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Cambria County Family Sues Sunoco After 3 Years Of Dealing With Damage To Home, Well, Septic System, Property From Mariner East Pipeline Construction  [PaEN]

-- Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Families Affected By Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ In Greene County Have A Little Happier Holiday Thanks To Water Donated By Center For Coalfield Justice  [PaEN]

-- Republican Herald Editorial: Gas Industry Appeased Too Long [PaEN] 

-- Concerned Health Professionals Of PA Ask Health Professionals To Sign Letter Urging Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Protect Public Health, Environment From Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industry  [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Oil & Gas Development, Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Water Withdrawal Requests  [PaEN]

-- League Of Women Voters, Partners Host Jan. 12 Webinar On LNG Natural Gas Export Terminal Safety  [PaEN]

-- UGI Asks Natural Gas Customers To Conserve Energy Use Due To Regional Natural Gas Supply Constraints  [PaEN] 

-- PJM Interconnection ‘Possibility Of Rotating Customer Electricity Outages Is Real’ -  A Mix Of Power Plants In The System Are ‘Not Performing’ - Filing DOE Emergency Power Request  [PaEN]

NewsClips:

-- Inside Climate News - John Hurdle: Dimock Residents Fear New Methane Contamination As PA Lifts Shale Gas Drilling Ban In Susquehanna County

-- Bob Donnan Blog: Is The Public Being ‘Dimocked’ Again On Shale Gas?

-- Carnegie Mellon, Other Partners In Project Breathe Wish Southwest PA Residents Happy Holidays By Showing Memorable Moments In 2022  [Video]

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: It’s Time Pennsylvania Residents, Regulators Demand Health Risks From Shale Gas Fracking Be Addressed - By Clean Air Council

-- TribLive Guest Essay: I’ve Seen Firsthand How Harmful Methane Pollution From Oil & Gas Industry Can Affect Our Health - Physicians For Social Responsibility Pennsylvania

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Better Path Coalition Wants More Information On DEP’s Settlement On Illegal Dumping 1,831 Truck Loads Of  Oil & Gas Waste In Fayette County

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Newsweek Ranks These Pittsburgh-Based Companies Among ‘Most Responsible In US  [Including Equitrans whose natural gas storage facility in Cambria County had a 1 billion cubic feet release of natural gas]

-- The Allegheny Front: ‘We Do Have Questions To Answer’ About Single-Use Plastic Waste, Shell Internal Emails Reveal

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Southwest PA Landowners Settle Class Action Lawsuit With Chief Oil & Gas For $5.5 Million

-- Moneygeek.com: Pennsylvania #28 On List Of States With Most Expensive Natural Gas Heating Bills

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Natural Gas Prices Rise [94.7%] As Production Falls, Report Says

[Posted: December 20, 2022]

12/26/2022