All Posts Tagged With: "Pavillion"

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EPA Seeks Pavillion Peer Review Panel

The agency is looking for experts to review a controversial draft report released last month that linked drilling operations in Pavillion, Wyoming, to water contamination in the area. Encana, the operator of the natural gas field, had requested a peer review of EPA’s findings.

18Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Encana Wants More Time from EPA to Respond to Water Contamination Report

Last Friday the energy company sent a letter to Paul Antastas, assistant administrator of the EPA’s Office of Research and Development. In it, Encana asked the EPA to lengthen the 45-day comment period — which is set to expire on January 27 — for comments on a report the agency issued last month on its study of groundwater contamination near the town of Pavillion.

10Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Industry: Pavillion Report Won’t Affect Niobrara Play

As many continue to question the scientific conclusions of the findings, both the EPA and industry representatives say the specific concerns raised in the report are not applicable to southeast Wyoming — because the Niobrara formation is geologically much different than the Pavillion area.

4Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Encana Slams EPA Over ‘Not Factual’
Pavillion Draft Report

In a detailed press release to media, the energy company noted that many of the EPA’s findings from its recent deep monitoring wells, including those related to any potential connection between fracking and Pavillion groundwater quality, “are conjecture, not factual, and only serve to trigger undue alarm.”

13Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA Draft Links Fracking, Groundwater Contamination in Pavillion

The finding set off calls for tighter rules on the fracking process. But Governor Mead called for more research, warning the EPA study could have “a critical impact on the energy industry and the country. He called the draft study
as “scientifically questionable,” and said more testing
is needed.

9Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Natural Gas Projected to Power Job Growth, U.S. Economy

A nationwide boom in production is set to fuel nearly 900,000 jobs and add roughly $1,000 to annual household budgets by 2015, according to a new industry study from IHS Global Insight. But concerns about environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing could temper the growth.

7Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Mead Wants Broader Inquiry Into Pavillion Water

State, tribal and federal officials, as well as residents and the natural gas company in the Pavillion area, are already investigating why some water wells there are contaminated.
A separate federal investigation recently discovered high levels of methane, benzene and other chemicals in monitoring wells.

2Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Company Nixes Deal for Controversial
Natural Gas Assets

Legacy Reserves LP of Midland, Texas, said it will not buy the assets in the Pavillion area owned by Calgary, Alberta-based Encana Corp. The company had announced earlier this month its plans to buy the assets for $45 million in cash.

29Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA Not Including Wyoming in Fracking Study

In what essentially amounts to an acknowledgement by federal officials that Wyoming’s “fracking” regulations are adequate, the EPA is not including the state in a much anticipated study of how the process affects drinking water.

27Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Public Meeting Scheduled to Discuss Pavillion
Groundwater Contamination

The April 20 meeting in Riverton will be hosted by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

6Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Key Gas Industry Execs Call for Disclosure of “Fracking” Chemicals

At the energy conference, Pinkerton called the companies’ concerns that disclosure would put them at a disadvantage “silly” and said, according to a report in Natural Gas Intelligence, that “I’ve basically told them that this is not acceptable.”

10Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued