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Rory Sweeney / City News

Natural gas boom coming

Post a Comment - 05/15/2008 1:41 PM EDT

TUNKHANNOCK – Experts believe the thick Marcellus Shale that stretches deep underground from Kentucky to New York, including parts of Luzerne and Wyoming Counties, has the potential to produce as much natural gas as similar shale deposits in northern Texas.

• Core issue - 05/13/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  ROCKVILLE, Md. – A major decision that will have consequences in Luzerne County and beyond will be made here at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission headquarters.

• Area leader Conyngham always gave best effort - 05/13/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  Visitors to Guthrie Conyngham’s office could learn a good deal about him before even stepping inside. They had just to read the framed copy of President Theodore Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena” speech hanging near the door.

• Plant accidents, water pollution just 2 of many safety issues - 05/13/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  SALEM TWP. – Nuclear fuel isn’t much to look at. The half-inch-long ceramic cylinders of uranium dioxide resemble bullets.

• POWERING UP - 05/11/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  SALEM TWP. – Valarie Anderson was a grade-schooler in Berwick in the 1970s when the Atomic Age came to town and, she says, changed everything.

• Turbines to be ready by 2009 - 05/10/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  TUNKHANNOCK – Now that Noxen Township’s wind ordinance has been approved, BP Alternative Energy is publicly pushing for a wind park in Wyoming County.

• Quarry hearings pause for tests - 05/9/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  RICE TWP. – After more than a year of drawn-out and sometimes contentious hearings, the Small Mountain Quarry and its neighbors quickly found some common ground at Thursday’s hearing.

• Bust led to homicide arrests - 05/8/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  WYOMING – It took a family to kill Peter Lach in 2005, investigators say, and it took a conspirator facing drug charges to turn her family in.

• Seminary shines at Best & Brightest - 05/7/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  WILKES-BARRE – By any standard, Wyoming Seminary Preparatory School had a banner showing at The Times Leader’s annual Best & Brightest Awards Ceremony on Tuesday night at the F.M. Kirby Center.

• Osterhout’s north branch reopened - 05/6/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  WILKES-BARRE – The north branch of the Osterhout Free Library reopened on Monday evening, and the swagger it couldn’t regain in its new tight temporary quarters was made up for with crafts, cake and prizes for the children.