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A drilling rig towers over the walls of the Poseidon well pad in Penn Township in 2018. Next door in Murrysville, a citizen group has appealed its challenge to the municipality’s fracking ordinance to the state’s Commonwealth Court.
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The Murrysville Watch Committee, a citizen group seeking to overturn the municipality’s unconventional gas drilling ordinance, had its appeal heard this week by the state’s Commonwealth Court.
The hearing began with attorney John Smith, representing the Watch Committee, requesting that Commonwealth Court Judge Drew Crompton recuse himself from the proceeding.
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As part of a mock accident demonstration at Hempfield Area High School, a student is tended to on a stretcher.
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Laurel: To two birds with one stone. It is great when people are able to lend a hand for a good cause. When you can do two at the same time, it’s even better.
Plum Borough observed Earth Day on April 24 with a Cleanup Day event as the culmination of a whole week of volunteer opportunities. Donna and Dan Kane signed up for help at their Short Street home, where the yard was still messed up from July 2019 flooding that the senior couple was just not capable of fixing.
Donna Kane knew she and her husband, Dan, needed help.
The Plum senior couple was still recovering from the July 2019 storms that flooded many parts of Allegheny County.
“My husband has a bad back, and because of that flood almost two years ago my yard was kind of messed up,” said Donna Kane, who is in her 60s.
So when the borough decided to expand its annual Cleanup Day, April 24 in observance of Earth Day, to a whole week of volunteer opportunities leading up to the main event, the Kanes were happy to sign up.
“It lightened the mood,” she said. “It took a lot of weight off of us trying to get the yard cleaned up and looking good. I appreciate the borough wanting to do that.”
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Construction of a new Olympus Energy natural gas well in Upper Burrell will start in September, according to company officials.
The so-called unconventional wells into Marcellus shale are used in the natural gas extraction process known as fracking.
Construction of the new Calliope Well pad, at 812 White Cloud Road, is planned from September to December. The drilling of five wells at the Calliope pad is expected in July and August 2022 with the well going online in December 2022, said Manny Johnson, vice president of operations for Olympus.
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