General/Introductory Material

 Fracking Opinion Survey

DOE, Modern Shale Gas in the United States: A Primer (2009).

Maryland Department of Natural Resources: Maryland Geological Survey, Is there a Natural Gas Boom in Maryland’s Future? (2010).

Pennsylvania Governor's Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission Report (2011).

DOE, Briefing to the SEAB Natural Gas Subcommittee to Examine Shale in Maryland (2011).

Maryland Department of Natural Resources: Maryland Geological Survey: David K. Brezinski, Geology of the Marcellus Shale in Maryland, (2010).

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Landowner/Leasing Resources

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler Warns Landowners:  Before Signing a Mineral Rights Lease, Check Your Mortgage

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, 5500-FS-DEP4300, PA-DEP Recommended Basic Oil & Gas Pre-Drill Parameters (2010).

McMahon, David B., Information about Oil and Gas Leasing for Surface Owners Who Also Own Their Minerals (2008).

McMahon, David B. et al, West Virginia Surface Owners Guide to Oil and Gas: 2ed (2005).

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Environmental Effects/Protection

National Sea Grant Law Center and Pennsylvania Sea Grant, Citizens’ Guide to Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania (2010).

National Energy Technology Laboratory: Daniel J. Soeder, Resource and Environmental Studies on Marcellus Shale.

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Air Quality

EPA, Addressing Air Emissions from the Oil and Natural Gas Industry: Overview of EPA's Proposed NSP Standards and NESHAPs (2011).

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Groundwater Protection

Révész, Kinga M. et al., Carbon and Hydrogen Isotopic Evidence for the Origin of Combustible Gases in Water-Supply Wells in North-Central Pennsylvania, 25 Applied Geochemistry 1845-1859 (2010).

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Surface Water Protection

Susquehanna River Basin Commission: Jim Richenderfer, Natural Gas Industry Effects on Water Consumption and Management (2011).

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Drinking Water Quality

Osborn, Stephen G. et al.,  Methane Contamination of Drinking Water Accompanying Gas-Well Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing, PNAS Early Edition (2011). 

Climate Change

Howarth, Robert W. et al., Methane and the Greenhouse-Gas Footprint of Natural Gas from Shale Formations A Letter, 106 Climatic Change 679-690 (2011).

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Public Health

Laughrey, Christopher D. and Fred J. Baldassare, Identifying Sources of Stray Carbon Dioxide Gas Contamination in Western Pennsylvania.

University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health: Conrad D. Volz et al, Contaminant Characterization of Effluent from Pennsylvania Brine Treatment Inc., Josephine Facility: Implications for Disposal of Oil and Gas Flowback Fluids from Brine Treatment Plants (2011).

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Regulation

EPA, Addressing Air Emissions from the Oil and Natural Gas Industry: Overview of EPA's Proposed NSP Standards and NESHAPs (2011).

Memorandum from James A. Hanlon, Director, EPA Office of Wastewater Management to Water Division Directors, EPA Regions 1-10, Regulating Natural Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale Under the NPDES Program (Mar. 16, 2011).

Pennsylvania Governor's Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission Report (2011).

EPA, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting from the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry: Background Technical Support Document (2010).

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Economic/Community Effects

Cornell University Community & Regional Development Institute, CaRDI Reports, Susan Christopherson, September 2011

How Should We Think About the Economic Consequences of Shale Gas Drilling?, Susan Christopherson and Rightor, Ned, May 2011

Workforce Development Challenges in the Natural Gas Industry, Jeffrey Jacquet, February 2011

Technologies

Mazza, R. L., Liquid-free stimulations- CO2\Sand Dry-Frac, Conference Proceedings of Natural Gas, Conference of Emerging Technologies for Natural Gas Industry (1997).

API Energy, GHF101, Hydraulic Fracturing Operations – Well Construction and Integrity Guidelines (2009).

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