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Title: Marcellus Shale Citizen Surveillance and Organizing Skills Training


1
Air Quality and Health Impacts of Milford
Compressor Station Expansion
Prepared for Citizens Meeting Milford, PA July 9,
2014
Presented by Matt Walker and Sam Koplinka-Loehr,
Clean Air Council
2
Clean Air Council Marcellus Shale Program
  • Lawsuits against polluters or agencies
  • Track current rulemaking and write comments on
    regulations
  • Work with residents to comment and testify on
    natural gas equipment
  • Community actions to achieve goals outside of
    regulatory pathways

3
Presentation Overview
  • Introduction
  • Health Impacts from Pollutants
  • Milford Station Specifics
  • How Residents can Protect Public Health

Photo Source Bob Donnan http//www.donnan.com/EP
A_Air-Quality_92711.htm
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64 of PA is above Marcellus Shale. In 2013, PA
had over 6,000 wells with 3 trillion cubic feet
of gas production. These gas products have
flooded regional markets and companies are trying
to build infrastructure to expand.
5
PA Pipelines and Compressor Stations
Milford Compressor Station is currently one of 10
major pipeline expansion projects in the
Delaware River Watershed.
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Air Pollution Sources
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Dallas Fort Worth
  • In 2009, the gas industry released more
    smog-forming emissions than all cars and trucks
    in the Dallas metro area
  • New York Times article citing Armendarizs 2009
    report, supported by Texas Commission on
    Environmental Quality

http//www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/05/27/27greenwir
e-could-smog-shroud-the-marcellus-shales-natural-3
397.html?pagewantedall
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RAND 2013 Air Pollution Study
  • Research and Development finds shale gas air
    pollution damages already between 7.2 and 30
    million in PA.
  • Health damages increased asthma,
    hospitalization, premature death.
  • Physical damages agriculture and infrastructure.
  • Compressor stations accounted for 6075 of the
    total damages.

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Biggest NOx Contributors
Adapted from Allen Robinson, http//iom.edu//medi
a/Files/Activity20Files/Environment/Environmental
HealthRT/2012-Apr-30/Robinson.pdf
12
Biggest VOC Contributors
Adapted from Allen Robinson, http//iom.edu//medi
a/Files/Activity20Files/Environment/Environmental
HealthRT/2012-Apr-30/Robinson.pdf
13
Health Impacts from Pollutants
14
Pollutants from Compressor Stations
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Potential Health Impacts from Nitrogen Oxides
(NOx)
  • Low levels
  • eye, nose, throat lung irritation
  • coughing, shortness of breath
  • tiredness, nausea
  • High levels
  • rapid burning, spasms, and swelling of throat and
    upper respiratory tract
  • reduced O2 in tissues
  • fluid build-up in lungs

Source http//www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs/TF.asp?id
396tid69
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Potential Health Impacts from Hazardous Air
Pollutants (HAPs)
  • Includes known and suspected carcinogens
  • Skin, eye, nose, and throat irritation
    headaches, loss of coordination, nausea damage
    to liver, kidney, and central nervous system over
    time.

VOCs http//www.epa.gov/iaq/voc.html,
Formaldehyde http//www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts111.p
df , Hydrogen Sulfide http//www.atsdr.cdc.gov/t
oxfaqs/tf.asp?id388tid67
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Potential Health Impacts from Fine Particulate
Matter
  • Short-term exposure
  • Eye, nose, and throat irritation
  • Long-term exposure
  • Increase in risk of cancer
  • Exacerbates lung disease

18
Potential Health Impacts from Ozone
  • Aggravation of asthma, bronchitis emphysema and
    increased susceptibility to pneumonia
    bronchitis
  • Linked to bladder, breast, and lung cancers,
    stroke, diabetes, lung damage, and premature
    death
  • Throat irritation, congestion, coughing, and
    chest pain
  • Wheezing and breathing difficulties

Source http//www.epa.gov/air/ozonepollution/heal
th.html
American Lung Association, Health Effects of
Ozone and Particle Pollution, State of the Air,
2011 Presidents Cancer Panel, Reducing
Environmental Cancer Risk What We Can Do Now,
2008-2009 Annual Report (National Cancer
Institute, May 2010).
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Cumulative Health Impacts
  • Taken together, emissions from shale gas
    infrastructure have substantial public health
    ramifications.
  • In their 2013 study, McKenzie et al. found
    elevated risk of birth defects in populations
    residing within a one-mile radius of gas
    infrastructure.
  • Environmental Assessment of East Side Expansion
    should consider impacts at the points of gas
    extraction and refining as well.

20
Milford Compressor Station Impacts
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Columbia Pipeline Groups Application
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and
    Pennsylvania DEP.
  • Includes reductions for removing existing engines
    that have operated at a fraction of permitted
    capacity.
  • Less than 200 hours/year since 2004.
  • Actual emissions will be much higher than
    previously emitted in the neighborhood.

23
Columbia Pipeline Groups Application with
Reductions
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Columbia Pipeline Groups Actual 2012 Milford
Emissions
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Columbia Pipeline Groups Actual 2012 Hours of
Operation
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90x Increase in Milford Station
Emissionstons/year
2012 Projected
Carbon Dioxide 125 50,762
Carbon Monoxide 0.55 50.64
NOx 0.46 42.29
Particulate Matter - 6.37
VOC 0.02 3.09
Formaldehyde - 0.42
Sulfur Dioxide 0.31
Source 2014 Columbia Pipeline Group DEP
Application
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Expected Air Pollution Sources
  • 2 Natural Gas Turbines
  • Emergency Generator
  • Heater
  • Construction
  • Fugitive Emissions
  • Blowdowns
  • 90 Barrel Condensate Tank
  • 45 Barrel Waste Liquid Tank

28
EPAs New Oil and Gas Standards
  • On Aug. 2, 2013, EPA updated its performance
    standards for storage tanks.
  • All tanks subject to the NSPS must control VOC
    emissions by 95 percent.

29
Fugitive Emissions/Leakages
Leakage from Compressor Stations. Source EPA
30
Fugitive Emissions
  • Columbia states greenhouse gas fugitive emissions
    will be 208 tons at Milford, and 2,847 tons over
    the entire project.
  • A 2009 survey of the emissions from natural gas
    activities in Texass Barnett Shale estimates
    that fugitive emissions from transmission account
    for 35 of total fugitive emissions from natural
    gas activities, or 0.49 of gross production.
  • Columbia has not stated what emissions are
    expected from venting condensate and liquid waste
    tanks

31
How Residents Can Protect Public Health
32
Regulatory Timeline
  • Currently in 30-day comment period for DEP Plan
    Approval until July 28th
  • FERC plans to release draft Environmental Review
    on August 29th, 2014
  • Followed by period of agency and public review
  • Columbia has requested FERC release the EA early,
    on July 15th
  • Interveners have opportunity for discovery and
    appeal

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Comment talking points for DEP
  • Public Hearing Request
  • Best technologies/practices
  • Blowdown Injection
  • Electric Compressors
  • Hazardous Material Management Plan
  • Condensate Tank Emission Analysis

35
Comment talking points for Potential Public
Hearing
  • Are the greenhouse gas emissions from the station
    properly accounted for in the current air permit?
  • Has DEP performed a proper aggregation analysis
    on this station and other facilities?
  • What will the air monitoring and stack test
    requirements be for this facility?
  • Columbia states aboveground condensate and liquid
    waste storage is insignificant, what hazardous
    waste oversight will there be of the 90 and 45
    barrel tanks?
  • Ask how often will the station be inspected.

36
Electric Compressors
  • Electrical hookup present
  • Would greatly reduce emissions
  • Depending on gas prices, can pay back within 3
    years

37
Re-routing Blowdown Gas
  • EPA standards recommend re-routing blowdown gas
    into sales lines or intersecting pipelines rather
    than doing an atmospheric release
  • Would greatly reduce emissions
  • Depending on gas prices, can pay back within 2
    years

38
Comment talking points for FERC
  • A true cumulative air quality/health impacts
    analysis.
  • A true cumulative climate impacts analysis.
  • Analysis of fugitive methane and VOC emissions.
  • Pursuant with NEPA, the Environmental Impact
    Statement must take into account all impacts
    whether direct, indirect, or cumulative.

39
Clean Air Council Action Alert on Milford Station
40
Reality Check on Regulatory Process
41
Contact Info
  • Matt Walker, CAC Community Outreach Director
    mwalker_at_cleanair.org
  • Sam Koplinka-Loehr, CAC Shale Gas Organizer
  • SKL_at_cleanair.org

42
Questions?
43
Air Regulations and Permitting
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General Permit 5 (GP-5)
  • PA DEP released the revised General Permit 5 in
    2013
  • Claimed large reductions in air pollution
  • Reality is that new requirements only matches
    what the industry has already been doing for the
    past two years
  • Stream-lined permit
  • Severely limits public participation

45
Federal Regulations
  • Clean Air Act
  • What can be in the air?
  • EPA sets NAAQS based on Public Health
  • National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
    Pollutants (NESHAPS)
  • New Source Performance Standards (NSPS)
  • EPAs new Oil and Gas Regulations
  • Required Technology
  • Nonattainment New Source Review
  • Prevention of Significant Deterioration
  • Title V Permit Program

46
State Air Quality Permitting
  • State permits enforce state and federal regs
  • Exemptions (PA)
  • All equipment except engines at compressor
    stations gt 100 hp
  • State permits (minor sources)
  • Plan approval (construction)
  • Combined operating permit and Plan Approval (GP5)
  • Federal Permits (major sources)
  • Title V
  • DEP is required to seek public input on
    compressor stations

47
Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule
  • Methane (nat gas) 21 x more potent than CO2
    (leaking/venting)
  • CO2 from engines
  • Can trip Title V major source permit
  • 100,000 tpy CO2e limit for new or modified site
  • EPAs phase 3 of rule would lower this to
    50,000 tpy CO2e

48
Truck Traffic
NOx, PM, CO2
49
Dehydration Units
Methane, VOCs, HAPs
50
Condensate Tanks
VOCs HAPs
51
Flaring/Venting
HAPs, CH4
Source Frank Finan
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Unplanned Events
2012 Lathrop Compressor Station Explosion,
Susquehanna County
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