Mike Krancer Partner, Leader – Energy, Petrochemical & Natural Resources Practice Group at Blank Rome LLP A recent Millennium Pipeline decision slamming New York DEC was a needed move by FERC to protect its Federal jurisdiction but Congress needs to act as well. FERC issued a key and very welcome decision on September 15,…
This week, two California cities, San Francisco and Oakland, announced they are suing five oil and gas companies for allegedly causing global sea levels to rise. For those following the #ExxonKnew saga, it will come as no surprise that this is just the latest component of their campaign. The lawsuit also comes just after the…
Looking to land a job at Shell’s $6 billion ethane cracker plant when it’s up and running in a few years? A new program set up by Shell with the Community College of Beaver County (CCBC) may give you a leg up. CCBC offers a program in process technology that leads to an associate’s degree….
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Wayne Forest lease sales change lives with nearly $7M to date; WV’s Charlie Burd ‘Man of the Year’; Shell teaches kids about energy jobs; corrupt Cuomo colludes with other governors to fleece residents re climate change; PA’s…
Institute for Energy Research …. …. States participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, are seeing there already high energy bills, go higher; far different from its intention. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cap-and-trade program between nine northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, was recently extended. The states (Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New…
K.J. Rodgers Crownsville, Maryland …. …. Australia’s Renewable Energy Target is producing more renewable energy; however, their energy prices are now the most expensive in the world. Since the dawn of the shale natural gas revolution, we have watched how quickly energy prices have fallen, how our carbon emissions have dropped, and how our own…
Business research firm LimeLeads recently released a list of the top-10 American industries in terms of job growth since last August, and thanks to the recent resurgence of the oil and gas industry, “Support Activities for Mining” tops the charts by a long shot. “Of all American industries, Support Activities for Mining experienced the fastest…
Bill Shaughnessy Wayne County, Pennsylvania Landowner … … Bill Shaughnessy fights for what he learned from his Dad and Mom and the people of the Delaware against the DRBC tyrants and their land use power grab. Its been seven years almost to the day that I was sitting with my dying father, his family…
Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about severance tax, fracking ban, Utica Shale and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown to THREE stations! We are now broadcasting with YesFM….
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Dump WV personal property tax on businesses to lure more gas power plants; PA Senate Repubs don’t like House budget, want a severance tax; OH first responders say o&g companies do good job with information; Haynesville Shale…
Earlier this week, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) released a report that has some great news for the climate and not-so-great news for #ExxonKnew activists: the five largest oil and gas companies in the world have made dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. From Bloomberg: “The five biggest oil companies — Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch…
Bill Shaughnessy is a landowner from Wayne County, Pa., who has been unable to develop his minerals over the past seven years due to the Delaware River Basin Commission’s de facto oil and gas moratorium. This is his story of how the moratorium has affected his family, and how DRBC’s recent announcement that it is…
Victor Furman Upstate New York Landowner Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman makes an impassioned plea for support of the NG Advantage natural gas transfer facility in the Town of Fenton. Help repel the fractivist invaders! The Town of Fenton, New York Planning Board will need to see our pro-gas support on Tuesday, September…
For years, Energy In Depth has reported on how Ohio anti-fracking activists have tried to slow down first responders with added bureaucracy and misinformation campaigns based on dubious assumptions regarding regulatory exemptions. Meanwhile, Ohio oil and gas operators continue to lead in terms of streamlining information access for first responders with aggressive training and communication…
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. Although fractivists are fond of labeling those of us who advocate for natural gas as climate change deniers, the real deniers are those who pretend natural gas can’t help. There were some rather amazing comments on this blog the other day. They reveal the degree to which fractivists who…