HARRISBURG -The Department of Environmental Protection will host a public meeting on Feb. 22, to discuss Flatirons Resources LLC’s proposal to drill a Marcellus Shale well in Brockway, Jefferson County.
The 6 p.m. meeting will be held at the Brockway Area Junior/Senior High School on Alexander Street.
“We recognize that there are a lot of questions and that people want details,” DEP Northwest Regional Director Kelly Burch said. “DEP staff will provide information about our role in the permitting process and address any questions and concerns the audience may have about our oversight and environmental protection.”
The horizontal well that Flatirons proposes to drill would be the second on this pad, which is on Brockway Borough Municipal Authority property in the Rattlesnake Creek Watershed. The first well was drilled in February 2011 and hydraulically fractured in November 2011.
After DEP’s presentation at the meeting, company representatives will describe their plans to drill the well, if approved. A question-and-answer session will follow.
DEP’s decision to issue a well permit is based on the application’s technical merits and whether the applicant’s drilling, casing and cementing plan will protect water resources. The agency issued Flatirons a permit to drill a second well on the pad in December 2010, but it expired a year later because the well was never drilled. The permit application was resubmitted on Dec. 27, 2011.