PA Class Action Royalty Lawsuit Against XTO Settles for $11M
A journey which began for Pennsylvania landowners in Butler County, PA in July 2015 is nearing an end. Two Butler […] Continue Reading: Marcellus Drilling News
A journey which began for Pennsylvania landowners in Butler County, PA in July 2015 is nearing an end. Two Butler […] Continue Reading: Marcellus Drilling News
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … … The Delaware Riverkeeper is doing politics today, as it does a unique form of grass-roots lobbying for a fracking ban. Where is the IRS when we need them? THE Delaware Riverkeeper is a radical environmental group operating as the self-appointed “caretaker” of the entire Delaware River Basin. It’s…
It’s “game on” between the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The […] Continue Reading: Marcellus Drilling News
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. FERC has smacked Governor Andrew “Corruptocrat” and his DEC hacks yet again in promptly denying a re-hearing request and calling out the state’s duplicity. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has clearly had it with New York, its politically corrupt governor and his environmental political hack, Basil Seggos….
This week, communities throughout the Commonwealth received natural gas impact fee – Pennsylvania’s natural gas tax – funded grants for key environmental and infrastructure projects. Through the Commonwealth Financing Authority, 115 projects, totaling more than $15.7 million were awarded to counties throughout the state. These funds are in addition to the impact fee dollars that…
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … … The truth behind the Grant Township injection well controversy is ugly. The parties taking advantage of the Township are totalitarian wannabes out for power. We previously reported on the story of two Pennsylvania townships that were either hoodwinked, or perhaps willing led astray, by the radical…
Taking a hard turn away from business and economics, NPR’s Marketplace – which claims to focus on “raising the economic intelligence of the country” – ran a one-sided attack on natural gas development last night that does more to scare listeners than inform them of science and facts. The story relies on information from environmental…
An Earthworks spokeswoman made a big gaffe in a small Oklahoma newspaper last month that confirms what experts have been saying for years about anti-fracking groups’ misleading use of “Forward Looking Infrared” (FLIR) images— they are devoid of scientific evidence and are specifically designed to scare the public in an effort to advance the “Keep…
Honestly, the Sierra Club launches so many petitions with FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), and so many lawsuits against FERC […] Continue Reading: Marcellus Drilling News
Two recent reports by anti-natural gas activist organizations – NRDC & Clean Air Task Force – make deeply misleading and downright false claims regarding safe natural gas development, transportation and use. While natural gas is a job creator and environmental winner, some environmental activists continue to push dangerous policies that would threaten this important progress….
A group of ninny nannies calling themselves Protect PT (Penn Township, Westmoreland County), backed with money and legal help from […] Continue Reading: Marcellus Drilling News
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 CNG, the Atlantic Sunrise, Chesapeake production and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown to THREE stations! We are now broadcasting with YesFM….
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) There’s no limit to how low the NRDC gang and friends will stoop to oppose oil and gas development but “Youth Climate Intervenors” is a new and really low. On day three of the evidentiary hearings to determine whether Enbridge Energy can construct a…
For the fifth year in a row, Ohio voters rejected a Pennsylvania-based Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s (CELDF) anti-fracking local ballot measure on Election Day. As the Toledo Blade reported, Ohio’s only local ballot measure this year, the Bowling Green Community Rights Charter Amendment — which was designed to block a pipeline route — wasn’t even…
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. The job-killing Sierra Club and other gentry class shills who stopped the Atlantic Sunrise construction for a moment have themselves been killed in court. When the DC Court of Appeals issued a stay the other day that put 2,500 Atlantic Sunrise workers out of jobs, it seemed a…