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Bakken Open Season Pennsylvania Regulations
It’s official: an overhaul of environmental regulations for shale gas drillers was published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin and went into effect on Saturday.The thick package of regulations is designed to reduce impacts on public resources, such as schools and parks, help prevent spills, strengthen waste management and require stronger well site restorations. The implementation follows approval by the Environmental Quality Board, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission and the state Attorney General‘s office (see Shale Daily, Aug. 15). It took more than five years for the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to draft the regulations. Along the way there were legal battles and legislative fights that saw rules for legacy producers scrapped (see Shale Daily, Sept. 2; June 15). DEP has been instructed to restart the process for writing those. DEP officials have said many of the new regulations simply codify existing agency policies and require some practices that are already being employed by the state’s shale drillers (see Shale Daily, Sept. 23). The new regulations can be viewed on the Pennsylvania Bulletin website.
One Comment on "Bakken Open Season Pennsylvania Regulations"
rockman on Mon, 10th Oct 2016 9:58 pm
“It took more than five years…”. So funny. About 4 or 5 years ago the Rockman specifically recommenced PA simply go to the Texas Rail Road Commission website and copy the thousands of pages covering hydrocarbon extraction. I’m not going to bother to read the new PA regs because I’m almost 100% certain they aren’t as tough as ours.
For instance does PA now require oil/NG producers to pay the state a severence tax on every $ of oil/NG produced in the state? Texas and La do and a portion of those monies fund oversight and regulatory compliance. A total of $BILLIONS over the years. And even though PA was the home of the first US oil boom they had never collected a penny of severance tax.