A federal judge in Boston dealt a major blow yesterday to environmental activist groups seeking to sue fossil fuel companies for supposedly ignoring the risks of climate change. The Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) had sued ExxonMobil for allegedly failing to sufficiently prepare a facility in Everett, Mass., for the effects of climate change, including sea…
Lawsuits filed against Antero Resources in both Ohio and West Virginia seek class action status. Both lawsuits make similar claims: Namely that Antero has improperly deducted post-production expenses from royalty checks (not allowed under lease terms), and that Antero has avoided, with creative accounting, paying royalties on natural gas liquids (NGLs) produced. The OH lawsuit…
Here’s a surprise: Big Green mouthpiece PBS StateImpact Pennsylvania is dishing some dirt on one of their own–PA Gov. Tom Wolf. We’ve been closely following the developing situation with the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) finally coming out of the closet as an extended arm of radical Big Green group Delaware Riverkeeper. The DRBC will…
In a decision that thrilled drillers, but angered landowners, the West Virginia Supreme Court decided in May to overturn its own previous decision (from last December) and allow driller EQT to deduct post-production expenses from royalty payments (see WV Supreme Court Reverses Itself, Post-Production Deductions OK). Last December MDN reported on the huge WV Supreme…
In June 2016, MDN told you about an economic development group of business and government leaders from Ohio and West Virginia (the Mid-Ohio Valley) called Shale Crescent (see Group Promotes Mid-Ohio Valley for Petrochem: Shale Crescent USA). The group was two years in the making and officially launched in June at a public event in…
Will fracking come to New Jersey? We asked that question back in 2013 (see Will Fracking Come to…New Jersey?!). At the time we pointed out the Marcellus/Utica only marginally touches the border of NJ, but that another rock layer called the Newark Basin underlies most of the state. We cautioned folks not to hold their…
We spotted an article that says clergy and lay people from the United Church of Christ in Robeson County, North Carolina will hold a prayer vigil today. A liberal pastor has decided to show up at the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to pray against approval for Dominion’s $5 billion, 594-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline…
New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, has just ruled that the New York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, has the right to demand documents in a court case that accuses Exxon of hiding internal research that shows burning oil and gas leads to catastrophic, man-made global warming. Schiederman has been on a witch…
MDN editor Jim Willis had the pleasure of visiting France in 2006. It is a breathtakingly beautiful country. Jim found the French people to be personable and easy to deal with, contrary to the popular myth they are arrogant and hate Americans. But hey, that was just one guy’s experience. Maybe you have had a…
We recently spotted an article written by Marian L. Tupy, editor of HumanProgress.org and a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. He specializes in “globalization and global well-being, and the political economy of Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.” He’s a smart guy–and a policy wonk. Tupy had an interesting experience when…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: PA budget noose tightens, House working on plan, “moderate” Repubs still want severance tax; first Rover flow volumes sign of growth in Appalachia; NY’s stand against pipelines puts fate of projects in doubt; Plum, PA frack wastewater…
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. The DRBC, in an effort to bring order out of self-created chaos, has announced it will consider something today but whatever it is, is deliberately unclear. It just gets “curiouser and curiouser” as a hopelessly incompetent and politically corrupted Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) composed mostly of the…
Researchers at West Virginia University believe a Marcellus and Utica shale ethane storage hub could create and more than 100,000 permanent jobs. The post Ethane store hub could create 100,000 Ohio valley jobs appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter. Continue Reading: Shale Gas Reporter