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11/16/2012: Chesapeake loses bid to renew NY leases; driller asks to extend moratorium?

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- DEP chief Michael Krancer says the Marcellus has made Pennsylvania an "American energy superpower." (Post-Gazette)

- Krancer also joined Range Resources in condemning Rep. Jesse White, who has been highly critical of DEP. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

- Elsewhere at Thursday's DUG East conference, an industry expert questioned whether Shell's time frame for its Beaver plant may be longer than expected. (Tribune-Review)

- The pitfalls of citizen efforts to map unplugged wells. (New York Times)

- In New York, Chesapeake lost its bid to extend expiring leases because of the moratorium there. (Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin)

- And here's a twist: a gas driller is asking a Colorado town to extend its moratorium to better coincide with state rules. (The Coloradoan)

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11/15/2012: Fight between Range, lawmaker ramps up; enviros still upset over lab reports

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- Twenty-five environmental groups have asked Gov. Corbett to revise DEP's lab report policies on well water contamination complaints. (Post-Gazette)

- The increasingly vitriolic dispute between Range Resources and state Rep. Jesse White reached a tipping point with the company releasing a set of unflattering emails from him. (Post-Gazette)

- At the DUG East, Karl Rove talked politics to the drilling crowd. (Pittsburgh Business Times)

- Community College of Philadelphia to start a training program for Marcellus Shale jobs. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

- And from earlier this week, the state DEP has added a disclaimer to its gas production data page, saying it can't guarantee "accuracy" of the figures. (AP)

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11/13/2012: Fees to help airport expansion; should Audubon lease land for drilling?

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- Drilling-related bromide concentrations in the Monongahela River returned to normal levels in 2011 and this year. (Post-Gazette)

- Activists are protesting Shell for drilling near a Lawrence County farm. (Pipeline)

- Audubon Society of Western Pa. weighs whether to lease land for gas drilling. (Pipeline)

- $1 million in drilling impact fees will help pay for a new terminal at the Williamsport airport. (Williamsport Sun-Gazette)

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11/9/2012: River contamination clearing up; auditor general to review DEP water testing.

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- Carnegie Mellon University researchers say a water quality problem in the Monongahela River that may have been linked to Marcellus Shale drilling is going away. (Associated Press)

- Ohio has caught up with Pennsylvania and West Virginia in its number of active drilling rigs. (Columbus Business First)

- The Environmental Protection Agency has issued draft permits for wastewater disposal wells in Elk and Clearfield counties. (StateImpact Pennsylvania)

- And the state's new auditor general says his first action in office will be an audit of DEP's water-testing programs. (Capitolwire)

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11/8/2012: PUC releases new impact fee numbers; anti-fracking candidates in NY did poorly

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- The Public Utility Commission has released revised numbers outlining each town's share of the new drilling fee, a little more than a week after announcing its initial numbers were off. (Pipeline)

- A Dimock Twp. man can resume his challenge to the methane contamination remedy designed by state regulators and a natural gas drilling company. (Scranton Times-Tribune)

- Anti-fracking candidates in southern New York didn't fare so well at the polls. (Associated Press)

- MarkWest Energy Partners will add on to the Mobley natural gas processing plant in West Virgnia. (Pittsburgh Business Times)

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