West Virginia Drilling Reform

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Jursidiction: West Virginia - West Virginia Department of Environmmental Protection
Summary: In late 2010, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a proposal for a wholesale rewrite of the way West Virginia regulates drilling operations across the state. DEP officials, after months of talks with groups on both sides, put together a 141-page bill in response to growing citizen concerns about the boom in horizontal drilling, especially for gas reserves in the Marcellus Shale formation. Among other things, the bill aims to get a handle on how much water drillers use and how they dispose of their polluted wastewater, and on the increased surface footprint required for the larger drilling sites and wells. Companies would have to submit water management plans that list the chemicals used in drilling and describe how they would dispose of drilling waste-water. It includes a new set of performance standards, and would require any well sites greater than five acres in size to submit formal designs put together by a professional engineer. Source: http://rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=102888
Keywords: West Virginia, water, fracking, disclosure

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