August 17, 2011

Marcellus Shale driller fighting South Fayette ordinance

By Erich Schwartzel, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Range Resources made a significant move Tuesday in what is likely the first step in a legal challenge to the wave of small-town regulations on natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. The Fort Worth, …

July 26, 2011

Full Environmental Assessment Form for Town of Tusten, Sullivan County, NY

Prepared by: William J. Pammer Jr., Ph.D.   Pammer Associates
PO Box 173   Bethel, NY 12720

Prepared for: Town Board
Town of Tusten
210 Bridge Street
PO Box 195
Narrowsburg, NY 10590

Date: July 25, 2011
Updated: August 1, 2011

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April 28, 2011

Benton gas well hearing canceled but protestors crowd community center

LAURA LEGERE, The Times-Tribune

BENTON TWP. – A hearing to consider a conditional use application for a natural gas well was canceled Wednesday evening but about 150 people rallied at the hearing site to oppose gas drilling in the township.…

April 15, 2011

A Legal Plan to Control Drilling

David Slottje and Helen Holden Slottje

What comes to mind when you think about upstate New York? Rolling farmlands, fresh air, and the chirping of birds? Or heavy truck traffic at all hours of the day and night, the smell …

April 7, 2011

Legal Memo: Overview of Current PA Law Related to Local Ordinances Affecting the Use of Land for Drilling Oil & Gas Wells

Jordan B. Yeager & Vincent J. Magyar, Jr., Curtin & Heefner LLP

This April 2011 legal memorandum has been prepared to facilitate Pennsylvania municipalities in drafting zoning ordinances with respect to proposed gas extraction operations. This memo, the corresponding model

January 21, 2011

County plans to update zoning to regulate gas development

DAVID THOMPSON, Sun Gazette

When Lycoming County implemented its zoning ordinance in 1991, the Marcellus Shale wasn’t even a blip on its radar screen.

Now it almost covers the entire screen and the zoning ordinance is being updated accordingly.

On …

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