11/29/2011: Peters ponders pipeline; SW violations up; OH landowners join forces; BBC in Bradford.

- Peters council members Monday night directed township administrators to begin developing an ordinance to address gas well pipelines, with officials noting that some property owners in the township have signed easement agreements for a gas pipeline. (Post-Gazette)

- Tourism agencies are tapping a surge in hotel tax revenue fed by the Marcellus shale drilling industry to market Pennsylvania's trails, ski resorts and historic sites. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

- Eight southwestern Pennsylvania counties saw 50 gas-drilling violations from June to November, an increase from 18 incidents during the same time period a year ago. (Pittsburgh Business Times) 

- A group of 600 landowners in eastern Ohio are offering up a combined 45,000 acres over the Utica formation in an effort to land a lucrative lease deal. (Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register)

- Spurred by Marcellus Shale gas drilling, Delta Airlines is expanding its number of flights and available seating in and out of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre International Airport. (Wilkes-Barre Times Leader)

- A group of seven pipeline company workers from Louisiana and Arkansas was arrested Sunday and charged with illegally killing deer in northern Wyoming County. (Scranton Times-Tribune)

- Penn State geosciences professor Terry Engelder has been named one of Foreign Policy Magazine's "Top 100 Global Thinkers," for "upending the geopolitics of energy." (Foreign Policy)

- And as England considers shale gas development, one of their largest news organizations takes a look at how the industry is going in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. (BBC News)