Shale and Air Quality: The View from the Other Side Niobrara shale oil gusher near Cheyenne, WY.

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Shale and Air Quality: The View from the Other Side Niobrara shale oil gusher near Cheyenne, WY.

Why do we Care? Oil and gas development impacts air quality. Oil and gas development is occurring at an unprecedented scale. Development of shale plays promises increasing impacts on an even greater scale.

Examples Ozone, ozone precursors. Hazardous air pollutants. Greenhouse gases (methane and CO2). Nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide. Particulate matter.

Recent Study “…clear potential for oil and gas development to negatively affect regional [ozone] concentrations in the western United States, including several treasured national parks and wilderness areas in the Four Corners region.” — Rodriguez, et al., “Regional Impacts of Oil and Gas Development on Ozone Formation in the Western United States,” Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, Vol. 59, (September 2009).

Colorado’s Assessment of Oil and Gas Air Quality Impacts “Oil and Gas largest single sector for APCD VOC Emissions Air Permitting Compliance/Enfor cement Oil and Gas-related activities remain significant.”

Let’s Cut to the Chase The major issues as we see them: Ozone (and NAAQS compliance generally). Permitting. Regulatory Updates. Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

Ozone New standards, big changes. Public health is driver: NAAQS established solely on what is necessary to protect public health and welfare. See American Trucking Ass’n v. Whitman, 531 U.S. 457 (2001). Oil and gas already implicated in high ozone in San Juan Basin, Upper Green River Basin, Uinta Basin, Denver/North Front Range. NOx and VOCs from oil and gas will be scrutinized.

Permitting Aggregation under Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V of the Clean Air Act. “All of the pollutant-emitting activities which belong to the same industrial grouping, are located on one or more contiguous or adjacent properties, and are under the control of the same person (or persons under common control).” 40 C.F.R. § 52.21(b)(6). Sept. 22, 2009 Memo from EPA Asst. Administrator. Oct. 8, 2009 Title V Petition Order, In the Matter of Kerr-McGee/Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Frederick Compressor Station, Petition VIII

Interdependency Where there is complete interdependency, aggregation will be required. See e.g., Letter from Cheryl Newton, Director, Air and Radiation Division, EPA Region 5 to Scott Huber, Summit Petroleum Corporation (Oct. 18, 2010). Still unresolved: whether aggregation should be required where there is not complete, but rather substantial or primary interdependency.

Regulatory Updates EPA reviewing New Source Performance Standards, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (inc. MACT and residual risk) for the Oil and Gas Sector. January 31, 2011 for proposal; November 30, 2011 for final (pursuant to CD in WildEarth Guardians v. Jackson, No. 1:09-CV CKK (D.D.C. 2009). EPA indicating that everything is on the table. Indications that Agency may develop control technique guidelines, potentially NSPS guidance for existing sources under Section 111(d).

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Greenhouse gas regulation is here: EPA Tailoring Rule. Greenhouse gas reporting rules just finalized. Federal agency NEPA responsibilities. NSPS updates. Focus with oil and gas: methane controls. Controlling methane = $$$$$$

What to Expect from us We will be working to ensure that oil and gas is appropriately dealt with in every SIP, and that FIPs are promulgated where needed. We will ensure pollutant emitting activities are appropriately aggregated. We will be advocating for a comprehensive update to the NSPS and NESHAP. We will continue to push for mandatory greenhouse gas controls, particularly for methane, ensure compliance with tailoring rule where required.

What we Expect from Industry Plan to use the best air pollution controls and practices. Many companies already using these controls and practices. Consistency industry-wide. Vapor Recovery Unit in use by Williams.

EnCana: Cutting Emissions is Good Business EnCana Oil & Gas USA spokesman Randy Teeuwen said reducing emissions from its upstream operations isn't a "job killer" as some people claim. "It's very much the opposite," Teeuwen said. During the past six months EnCana has added six employees to monitor emissions from all potential sources at its Jonah natural gas field in southwest Wyoming. Another employee oversees the company's emission compliance for the Jonah operations. The effort to detect, measure and curb emissions also requires a constant upgrading of facilities. "It goes into the economy, and somebody has to manufacture all those tanks and valves and pipes and so forth. And we just put six new people into the work force," Teeuwen said. "It's not eliminating jobs for us. It's adding jobs.” —Casper Star Tribune, Oct. 11, 2010