These workshops are part of a series of trainings that cover topics surrounding oil and gas development, from extraction and production, to transportation and waste issues.
The workshop is divided into multiple sections to mirror the Living Near Shale Gas Resource Guide, a binder put together with resources designed to help you protect resident's homes and livelihoods.
Participants will receive a copy of the Guide when they attend a training.
These trainings are free and open to the public.
Click Here to register and for more information.
Home Resource Guide
Protect PT’s Home Resource Guide contains four sections--
-- Emergency and Disaster Preparedness
-- Air Pollution & Water Pollution
Visit Protect PT’s Fracking In Your Neighborhood webpage for more resources.
Protect PT (Penn-Trafford) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring residents’ safety, security, and quality of life by engaging in education and advocacy to protect the economic, environmental, and legal rights of the people in Westmoreland and Allegheny counties.
Since starting as a group of neighbors working together to protect their neighborhood from fracking in late 2014, Protect PT has grown to a community-based organization with staff, volunteers, and members.
Related Articles This Week:
-- Citizens Interested In Submitting Comments To DEP On Tenaska Natural Gas Power Plant’s First Title V Air Quality Permit Invited To Oct. 29 Public Meeting In West Newton, Westmoreland County [PaEN]
PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards:
-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Oct. 18 to 24: 14,280 Gallon Shale Gas Wastewater Spill; 2nd Major Spill By Conventional Well Owner; Failure To Address Pipeline Slope Failure For 1,440 Days [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 25 [PaEN]
-- DEP Posted 81 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In October 25 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
Related Articles This Week:
-- DEP: 14,280 Gallon Shale Gas Wastewater Spill At EQT Production’s Secretariat Well Pad In Gilmore Twp., Greene County [PaEN]
-- DEP: Day 155 - Contaminated Water Still Flowing From Seneca Resources Vandergrift Shale Gas Wells, Well Pad; Cleanup Continues In Charleston Twp., Tioga County [PaEN]
-- DEP Extends Temporary Air Quality Permits For Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; No Schedule Yet For Public Review Of Full Title V Air Quality Permit Accepted July 2024 [PaEN]
-- DEP Issues Air Quality Permit For 248 MW Wyalusing Energy Center Natural Gas Power Plant To Serve The Klondike Data Center Project In Bradford County [PaEN]
-- DEP To Hold Dec. 17 Hearing On An Air Quality Permit For The PEI Power LLC Natural Gas Power Plant In Lackawanna County [PaEN]
-- Citizens Interested In Submitting Comments To DEP On Tenaska Natural Gas Power Plant’s First Title V Air Quality Permit Invited To Oct. 29 Public Meeting In West Newton, Westmoreland County [PaEN]
-- Protect PT Hosts Nov. 4 & Nov. 11 Online Living Near Shale Gas Development Community Workshops [PaEN]
NewsClips:
-- Utility Dive Guest Essay: Reliance On Natural Gas For Power Generation Will Worsen Energy Affordability Crisis - By Cassady Craighill, GridLab
-- PennFuture: PA Senate Republicans’ ‘All Of The Above Energy’ Statements Focused On Natural Gas
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Gas Driller Secures Option To 400-Acre Former Steel Plant Site Along Monongahela River In Allenport, Stockdale, Dunlevy Boroughs, Washington County, Mum On Development Plans [PDF of Article]
-- TribLive: Natural Gas Producer EQT Corp. Posts $407 Million Profit: ‘Firing On All Cylinders’
-- Reuters: EQT Production Beats Quarterly Profit Estimates On Strong, Higher Natural Gas Prices
-- Reuters Guest Essay: US LNG Gas Exporters And Households On Natural Gas Already Saddled With Record-High Energy Bills On Collision Course [PDF of Article]
-- Broad +Liberty Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s Energy Future Is Bright And Bipartisan, Republicans, Democrats Deserve Credit For Supporting ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ - By Former Gov. Mark Schweiker [Natural Gas]
-- Reuters: EU Plans Changes To LNG Gas Sustainability Law As US, Qatar Increase Pressure
-- Financial Times: Fallout From The A.I.-Fuelled Dash For Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants - Supply Crunch In Giant Turbines Taking Years For Delivery
-- Bloomberg: Halliburton Is Branching Into A.I. Data Center Power Supplies As Fracking Demand Stagnates
[Posted: October 22, 2025] PA Environment Digest
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