http://marcellusshale.saulnews.com A Law Blog hosted by Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:49:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Saturday January 21, 2012, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will be publishing proposed terms for a new general permit to be used by oil and gas and pipeline companies for earth disturbance activities associated with oil and gas drilling and transmission projects. The Department will also be ... http://marcellusshale.saulnews.com/archives/169 The Pennsylvania Senate unanimously passed an amended version of Rep. Matt Baker's bill, House Bill 344, on December 13, 2011. The bill now goes back to the Pennsylvania House for concurrence. The bill as passed by the Senate grants the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission the power to register, assess and inspect ... http://marcellusshale.saulnews.com/archives/164 On November 12, 2011, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will publish a new technical guidance document regarding the permitting of total dissolved solids (TDS) discharges from wastewater treatment plants. An advance copy of the 31-page guidance document is available here. The purpose of the new policy is to assist ... http://marcellusshale.saulnews.com/archives/158 Feel that aftershock a few weeks ago? That was the collective shudder of oil and gas lawyers when the Pennsylvania Superior Court remanded a Susquehanna County case for a hearing on whether gas from the Marcellus Shale formation was, or was not, transferred in an 1881 deed that reserved ... http://marcellusshale.saulnews.com/archives/154 Click here for an Update and analysis by Elizabeth U. Witmer, Esq. of Saul Ewing, LLP on the August 25, 2011 decision by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission in the Laser Northeast Gathering Company, LLC case. The PUC clarified its prior decision which found that Laser, as provider of a ... http://marcellusshale.saulnews.com/archives/152 by Elizabeth U. Witmer, Esquire, Saul Ewing, LLP The Pennsylvania PUC today issued an Order in response to two motions for reconsideration and one for clarification of its June 2011 order in Laser Northeast Gathering Company, LLC, Docket No. A-2010-2153371, which found that Laser, as a natural gas gathering/midstream pipeline, is ... http://marcellusshale.saulnews.com/archives/150 Thirty-day public comment period to close on September 6, 2011 By Andrew T. Bockis, Saul Ewing, LLP On August 6, 2011, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection published notice of a proposed General Permit that authorizes the processing and transfer of oil and gas wastewater from wells producing gas from unconventional formations ... http://marcellusshale.saulnews.com/archives/147 On May 13 Governor Corbett signed legislation amending the Coal and Gas Resource Coordination Act, 58 P.S. §§501-518, the purpose of which is to reconcile competing interests between coal mining and natural gas extraction activities. The key ... http://marcellusshale.saulnews.com/archives/145 On April 18, New York's Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced plans to sue the United States unless a full environmental review of regulations related to gas fracking proposed by the Delaware River Basin Commission ("DRBC") is performed.  The announcement referred to the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA"), which applies to major federal ... http://marcellusshale.saulnews.com/archives/142             In a March 8, 2011 opinion, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania held that a gas production company was not entitled to an equitable ruling extending the terms of leases for the same period of time that production under the leases was delayed pending ... http://marcellusshale.saulnews.com/archives/140