The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) hosted a first-of-its-kind oil and gas open house on Tuesday to discuss the importance of communication between regulators and industry, and provide an update on regulatory requirements and legislative changes for horizontal shale well drilling. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) also participated in the open house, as…
A Washington D.C. trade publication obtained “thousands” of emails from the office of Governor John Hickenlooper (D-CO), which included correspondence in the wake of the Firestone tragedy. Although the publication, EnergyWire, framed these messages in the darkest terms on Thursday, the emails confirmed once again that in Colorado, collaboration and communication are keys to responsible…
A new Pew Research Center survey found that 42 percent of Americans credit advances in technology with having the most impact on improving lives over the last 50 years, followed by medicine and health advancements with 14 percent. And while only five percent of respondents felt energy and the environment should top the charts, the…
Energy Solutions Consortium, aka the father and son team of Andrew and Matthew Dorn–have been trying to build a 750 […] Continue Reading: Marcellus Drilling News
The Interior Department wants to delay methane emissions rules for a year while it considers relaxing or getting rid of the oil and gas industry rules. The post Trump administration looks to delay methane emissions rules appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter. Continue Reading: Shale Gas Reporter
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. Earthworks, a fractivist group that has focused a lot on Texas, is being funded by a foundation created to help an eccentric billionaire avoid paying taxes. Earthworks is one of several fractivist groups that are part Jay Halfon’s network. Halfon is the Fractivist Rasputin, intimately connected with the trial…
New data released this week by two federal agencies put the significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions attributable to the growing switch to natural gas-fired electricity generation in the spotlight. The latest U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data show that 63 percent of the 89 million metric tons (MMmt) of energy-related carbon emissions reduction in…
The debate rages, both nationally and on the state level (in Pennsylvania, anyway) about the best way to reduce fugitive […] Continue Reading: Marcellus Drilling News
This week Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) annual conference is being held in Pittsburgh, Pa. — a town that has been dubbed “The Energy Capital of the East” thanks to the abundance of Marcellus Shale natural gas nearby. Pittsburgh is a prime example of a city that has reaped the benefits of the shale gas revolution…
We’ve written in the past about silly nutters who stay awake at night worried that the earth is going to […] Continue Reading: Marcellus Drilling News
K.J. Rodgers Crownsville, Maryland …. …. A new protein derived from feeding bacteria a methane-laced solution is being used to help feed farm animals and maybe soon, humans. Food supplies around the world can sometimes be scarce. Natural resources may not be adequate in some areas with increasing human population or as we are seeing…
K.J. Rodgers Crownsville, Maryland …. …. Air quality and greenhouse gas emissions have improved to 30-year lows. This is due to the increased use of natural gas and industry investment. There is no doubt about it, the air we are breathing is cleaner than it has been in nearly thirty years. This is not because…
The usual anti-fossil fuel suspects, Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), are “searching for water in the desert” with a new lawsuit filed to challenge the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) June sale of oil and gas leases in Nevada, a state with barely any oil and gas activity to speak of. This…
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….
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. Natural gas vehicles, natural gas tractors and now natural gas boats. Is there nothing that can’t be powered by natural gas to reduce emissions? Seems so. Readers who took a great interest in that sleek new New Holland natural gas powered farm tractor will be thrilled to know…