It's only the river...
Pennsylvania has more than 1,600 Marcellus wells. Gas drillers are promising 10,000 new wells in the next few years, and they???re eager to frack the Delaware River Basin. Drilling activity has more than doubled, yet the PA DEP budget was cut by $165 million. Surely enforcement represents an ever expanding task? Meanwhile, gas drillers are storing gas and flaring wells more frequently while they wait for higher gas prices, and 25,000 miles of new high-pressure gathering pipelines to be slapped down to ship LNG to China. I gather it's too late to put this genie back in the bottle, but no one in Harrisburg has any vision for all this gas. And, given all that we do know about fracking, shouldn't watersheds be off limits?
