The Fracking Resistance, Lawrence County PA.

01/11/2025

PULASKI KINKELA WELL PAD OG ESGP: 11/14/2024 PLUGGING - GENERAL PROVISIONS - Upon abandoning a well, the owner or operator failed to plug the well to stop the vertical flow of fluids or gas within the well bore under 25 Pa. Code §§ 78.92—78.98 or an approved alternate method.

07/16/2024

Edinburgh, Pennsylvania on the MAP: Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) accepts leachate from landfills with unconventional oil & gas fracking waste & discharges to the Mahoning River.

A Public Herald investigation has uncovered that DEP is allowing 14 Sewage Waste Treatment Plants to discharge radioactive fracking waste as landfill leachate into 13 Pennsylvania Waterways. The process DEP created to “treat” and discharge the leachate through sewage plants appears to date as fa...

10/26/2022

"Oil & gas methane migration impact on a private water well in Western Pennsylvania. Take a trip down a water well that has been impacted by Hydraulic Fracturing in Pulaski Township, Lawrence County. The water well shown, is just over 120 feet deep and was impacted by the drilling done by Hilcorp Energy at the Pulaski Whiting Well Pad. The DEP has determined that this well, as well as three others, were Impacted around the same time."

10/26/2022

Three of the Pennsylvania wells where PFAS have been used are located in : Pulaski Township, Lawrence County Pennsylvania. (three wells) (population 3,102)

PITTSBURGH—Toxic “forever chemicals”, also known as PFAS, have been used in at least eight oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania, but the exact location of those wells has never been publicly disclosed — until now.

03/15/2022

Covanta discharges Industrial Waste into the Sanitary Sewer System of New Castle, PA.

“One of the things the regulators have not acknowledged is that cumulative impact over time,” said investigative journalist Melissa Troutman.

10/05/2020

Water Well Issues in the Eastbrook area of Lawrence County, PA on 9/11/2020. WRITE your complaint to the DEP, and write your complaint to Hickory Township for added security that your complaint is being heard correctly.

10/04/2020

52 Active Wells, 13 recorded Violations for Lawrence County. We all live downstream.

Find Pennsylvania fracking wells in Lawrence, and see whether natural gas drillers have violated the commonwealth’s environmental regulations.

02/20/2020

In a new study released in January 2020, researchers at Duke University report they have found radioactivity in stream sediments near wastewater treatment plants that continued to process non-fracking oil and gas drilling wastewater.

To study the issue, Duke researchers took samples near three wastewater treatment plants in western Pennsylvania, three sites that had previously been studied prior to the end of treating Marcellus Shale wastewater.

10/26/2019

“In leachate [from fracking waste], I would expect to see salts, metals, and radioactive elements,” said Vengosh. “None of those would be retained or removed through conventional wastewater treatment plants.” https://www.ehn.org/there-are-concerning-carcinogens-in-western-pennsylvania-water-2641070249.html?rebelltitem=4 "These compounds are volatile, so the primary exposure around your house actually comes from breathing in steam from your shower." STEAM FROM YOUR SHOWER! Think about that.

A Public Herald investigation has uncovered that DEP is allowing 14 Sewage Waste Treatment Plants to discharge radioactive fracking waste as landfill leachate into 13 Pennsylvania Waterways. The process DEP created to “treat” and discharge the leachate through sewage plants appears to date as fa...

10/15/2019

Be on the watch for leaking waterlines and leaking natural gas pipelines.

A 2.2 magnitude earthquake hit southwest of Washington, Pa.

10/03/2019

CONCLUSION: The DEP Northwest Regional Office's investigation into determining the cause and/or origin of this incident was inconclusive. Based on some of the observations made during various complaint investigations and similar accounts related to the Department, the Department can only postulate a waste containing Mesityl Oxide or another similar compound reacted with a sulfer compound under a specific set of conditions somewhere within the sewer system creating the distinctive "cat urine" odor and allowed an easy pathway within the sewer system for it to quickly spread over a large area. NO SPECIFIC INDUSTRY OR WASTE STREAM COULD BE DEFINITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS THE EXACT CAUSE OF THE ODOR.

10/03/2019

"According to a review of state pollution permits, 12 other smaller plants fit into the same category as Belle Vernon....." Follow the LINK to 12 other smaller plants and you'll find NEW CASTLE CITY SANITATION AUTHORITY / WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT of LAWRENCE COUNTY accepting wastewater from ADVANCED DISPOSIL SERVICES GREENTREE LANDFILL LLC https://www.advanceddisposal.com/pa/kersey/greentree-landfill .... & ....MAHONING TOWNSHIP WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT accepting wastewater from SENECA LANDFILL INC https://www.senecalandfill.com/
NEW CASTLE SANITATION AUTHORITY RECEIVES $32 MILLION IN STATE FINANCING http://www.senatoreldervogel.com/2019/07/17/new-castle-sanitation-authority-receives-32-million-in-state-financing/

Landfills are supposed to pre-treat fracking waste before sending it to a sewage treatment plant — unless it’s a smaller plant. Gary Kruppa found that out when the Belle Vernon plant he runs started failing water quality tests.