DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets May 18 To Hear Presentation On DEP’s Expanded Conventional Abandoned Well Plugging Program

DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council is scheduled to meet May 18 to hear a presentation on DEP’s expanded conventional abandoned well plugging program funded by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Kurt Klapkowski, Acting Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management will make the presentation on the new conventional oil and gas well plugging program.

Klapkowski recently updated the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board on DEP’s efforts to implement the program - Click Here to review [3:01:45]

Visit DEP’s Abandoned and Orphan Well webpage for more information.  (See Related Articles below for related issues.)

Also on the agenda is--

-- Discussion of Final RACT III Air Quality Regulation

-- Draft Legacy Issues Report on DEP

-- Draft 2020 Council Annual Report

DEP’s written Monthly Report to Council is also available.

Public Comments

Individuals interested in providing public comments during the meeting must sign up prior to the state of the meeting by contacting Keith Salador, Executive Director, ksalador@pa.gov or 717-787-8171. 

The meeting will be  held in Room 105 Rachel Carson Building starting at 12:30 p.m.  Remote access options will be available thru WebEx and audio conference call: 1-415-655-0003 Conference ID#: 2633 675 2017.

For more information and available handouts, visit the DEP Citizens Advisory Council webpage.  Questions should be directed to Keith Salador, Executive Director, ksalador@pa.gov or 717-787-8171. 

Related Articles - Well Plugging:

-- New Abandoned Wells: DEP Records Show Abandoning Oil & Gas Wells Without Plugging Them Is Pervasive In Conventional Drilling Industry; Who Is Protecting Taxpayers?

-- 12 Unconventional Shale Gas Drillers Issued DEP Notices Of Violation For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them At 35 Well Pads In 17 Counties

-- Quarterly Report: DEP Issued 77 Notices Of Violations To Conventional Drillers, 8 To Shale Gas Drillers For Attempting To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them

-- Financial Assurance, Plugging Regulations To Be Reviewed To Prevent New Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells Under Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Plugging Program

-- DEP: Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Prompting Review Of On-Site Disposal Options For Oil & Gas Well Plugging Wastes; Radioactive Waste Disposal 

-- DEP To Prohibit Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers With Unresolved Environmental Violations From Getting Conventional Well Plugging Contracts; 133 Companies Interested In Doing Well Plugging Work

Related Articles This Week:

-- Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Dispose Of Drill Cuttings By ‘Dusting’ - Blowing Them On The Ground, And In The Air Around Drill Sites 

-- Post-Gazette: DEP Evaluating Whether To Resubmit Oil & Gas Methane Rule To EQB To Address Concerns About A Separate Conventional Oil & Gas Rule  

NewsClips:

-- Post-Gazette - Laura Legere: DEP Evaluating Whether To Resubmit Oil & Gas Methane Rule To EQB To Address Concerns About A Separate Conventional Oil & Gas Rule 

-- Post-Gazette - Laura Legere: Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Sues DEP To Be Excluded From Methane Emissions Reduction Rule 

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Company Seeks To Withdraw Water From Western PA Trout Stream For Fracking 

-- Environmental  Health Project On-Demand Webinar: Reproductive Health And Shale Gas Development

-- The Center Square: PA Moratorium Loophole Nets $45 Million In Oil & Gas Revenue

-- Pocono Record Guest Essay: Representation Under Delaware River Basin Commission Compact Unfair - Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens [Natural gas drilling rights owners]

[Posted: May 6, 2022]  PA Environment Digest