EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Renz No. 1 was enshrouded in doubt 20 years ago, when Range Resources was attempting to unleash natural gas from the well through hydraulic fracturing. Workers had ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the sixth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. To understand why wastewater impoundments and injection wells have been a key component of natural gas drilling in the 20 years since the first drilling rig was ...
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Coal is surviving, but it has an environmental black eye. This bountiful underground resource, the major source of energy in the United States until the 1950s, is ...
Editor’s note: This is one in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Natural gas drilling dominated local discussion in Washington County in the 2010s, and with the publication of the book, “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the ...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, a body of evidence points to the possible ...
UPDATE: This story was updated Oct. 10 to correct an error regarding the administration of royalties to landowners for natural gas drilling. Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Oil and natural gas ...
