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EQT has been running a six-well fracking site 1,700 feet away from Elizabeth Forward High School ([link removed]) for more than a year without a valid local permit. The project’s future now rests in the hands of township commissioners, who will consider whether to approve a conditional use permit.

A court struck down a permit for the $60 million drilling operation, but the company hopes it found a way around ([link removed]) that ruling by splitting the involved property into separate lots.

✍️ Newsletter written by Charlie Wolfson ([link removed]) ,

Public Source local government reporter & newsletter editor


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** EQT wants Elizabeth Township’s approval for fracked wells near a school. Residents are worried. ([link removed])
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An approved permit would represent a second, and potentially final, bite at the apple for EQT and its six-well Heracles operation. The project has been at the center of a three-year legal battle that pitted the company and township commissioners against local environmental advocates.
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** TODAY IN HISTORY 📅
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Today is July 9.

28 years ago, 1998: The Regional Asset District board voted, 6-1, to approve “Plan B” to provide local funding for a new baseball park, football stadium and convention center. (Post-Gazette)

158 years ago, 1868: The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granting citizenship and “equal protection under the laws” to anyone “born or naturalized in the United States,” including formerly enslaved people. (AP)

176 years ago, 1850: President Zachary Taylor died of gastrointestinal illness after consuming a large amount of cherries and iced milk on a hot day five days earlier; Vice President Millard Fillmore was sworn in as president the following day. (AP)


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