News & Updates Seasons Greetings from GWPC 12-28-2012 Thank you to all of our members and participants who supported the Ground Water Protection Council in 2012. We hope you will join us at one of our upcoming events in 2013 including: UIC Conference – Sarasota, FL - January 22-24 GWPC Policy Meeting (with joint sessions with ASDWA) – Alexandria, VA – March 11-13 Stray Gas Incidence & Response Forum – Grapevine, TX – July 8-11 GWPC Annual Forum – St. Louis, MO – September... Read More Massachusetts Announces Final Sustainable Water Management Initiative 12-04-2012 Today, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced the Sustainable Water Management Initiative (SWMI). SWMI was created in 2010 by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and included a wide range of stakeholders and support from the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Fish and Game, and the Department of Conservation and Recreation. The new SWMI plan was launched to better protect the Commonwealth’s water resources by encouraging prudent use of water to balance the need for water consumption and increased economic development with the ecological... Read More State Regulators Issue White Paper on Stray Gas 11-02-2012 OKLAHOMA CITY – The Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) released a White Paper summarizing the Stray Gas Incidence & Response Forum recently held in Cleveland, OH. Co-hosted by U.S. Department of Energy the event focused on stray gas in areas where shale gas or other unconventional natural gas is being developed. Stray gas is gas that migrates from its natural geological location into aquifers or the shallow subsurface. The forum explored the technical and scientific basis for stray gas occurrence and investigations including fundamentals of the physical and chemical... Read More Call for Abstracts - 2013 UIC Conference 10-26-2012 GWPC has released an announcement and Call for Abstracts for the 2013 UIC Conference. Download Here Fracking: The Roles of Corporate Self Governance and Federal, State, and Local Control 10-25-2012 The attached issue of The Environmental Forum focuses on the issue of Hydraulic Fracturing regulation. GWPC Executive Director Mike Paque penned an article as part of this discussion.Dowload all the articles. Pages« first ‹ previous … 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 next › last »