Researchers Seek Farmers For Pipeline Soil Impact Study – Farm And Dairy.
Natural Gas
Two Ways Infrared Cameras Have Boosted The Case For E.P.A. Rules Cutting Methane Leaks.
The Cuomo Administration’s Pipeline Challenge
Painful memories grip Blenheim 25 years after gas explosion
I've been by that location on West Kill Road many times and know right where the pipeline crosses the road. Propane, unlike natural gas, tends to sink -- which is why the lower portion of West Kill Road burnt, rather than farther up in the open farm country where the pipeline is actually located.
The Debate is On
Why is it hard to get anywhere on fracking? Because people are too full of themselves.
Fracking Pennsylvania’s Public Lands
The question is what would the late Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania who set up the Pennsylvania State Forest system say? "Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run."
Pennsylvania State Forests like New York State Forests are working lands, to be used for a wide variety of public purposes. Does oil and gas production conflict with public uses? It's debatable. New York State allows oil and natural gas drilling and production in it's state forests, but not high volume hydrofracking due to concerns of size of the well pads. Pennsylvania does allow HVH fracking. if NY legalizes HVH fracking, they probably will sell mineral rights under state forests, but not allow the larger well pads on the state land itself.
The top soil is piled up and protected at these sites, tied down by grass. Once the wells are depleted, the drillers must replace the top soil, and replant the tree stands. Eventually the forest where there once were wellpads will regrow and once again be cut for forest products.