Connie Mellin Natural Gas NOW “PAShaleAdvocate” Lancashire for Shale and Cuadrilla produced a great video which does a fantastic job of explaining the geology involved in fracking. Our friends at Lancashire for Shale, along with the good people of Cuadrilla, have put together a marvelous video lesson in geology. This well done video does…
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…
U.S. energy independence will become a reality. That is essentially the conclusion of the International Energy Agency’s 2017 World Energy Outlook, which projects America will become a net exporter natural gas and oil by the end of the next decade. Energy independence was once unthinkable, but is now imminent — thanks to fracking, which has…
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. Radical billionaire Tom Steyer threw money at Tom Wolf’s campaign for Pennsylvania Governor. Is he now treating the governor as his personal bobblehead? Ever since Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania’s trust-funder governor, suddenly decided to pursue a fracking ban within the jurisdiction of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) I’ve…
George P. Ahearn, Phd Co-founder and Former President and CEO GEO Specialty Chemicals, Inc. … The Conservancy of Southwest Florida is doing politics in opposing fracking, not conservation, and it has its facts all wrong, thanks to New York’s Tony Ingraffea. Is the Conservancy of Southwest Florida a real conservation entity or is it a…
Pennsylvania Sen. Gene Yaw (R) recently took some time to reflect on the last decade of shale development in Pennsylvania as part of Lycoming College’s Center for Energy and the Future speaker series. While the first Marcellus Shale well may have been drilled in 2004, the shale revolution really didn’t kick off in Pennsylvania until…
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) last Thursday released a report that claims methane emissions from New Mexico oil and natural gas development “are drastically higher than official state reports.” The timing of the report is a bit suspect, considering two recent reports have actually found that New Mexico methane emissions are rapidly declining, based on…
A new report commissioned by the anti-fossil fuel activist group Friends of the Earth Europe (FOEe) and written by authors from the Tyndall Manchester Climate Change Research Center claims Europe will fail to meet its Paris Climate Agreement goals unless it dramatically reduces natural gas use and ends fossil fuel use altogether by 2035. This…
Anti-fracking activist group WildEarth Guardians (WEG) is out with another misleading public lands campaign, this time with the release of an interactive map that purports to illustrate “rampant” oil and gas related “major undesirable events” on public lands. You might recall that WEG’s public lands focus started earlier this year when it protested a Nevada…
Daniel B. Markind, Esq. Weir and Partners, LLP Dan Markind looks back at the severance tax debate and ahead to elections, LNG exports, a recovering economy and an extraordinary 2018 for Pennsylvania. Last Monday, Governor Tom Wolf signed off on a funding plan for the 2018 Pennsylvania State Budget. It does not contain a shale…
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. The EPA is out with its latest greenhouse gas emissions from onshore petroleum and natural gas production data, showing emissions are way down. Thank fracking. The EPA has a neat website tracking greenhouse gas emissions from onshore petroleum and natural gas production. The data shows they’re way down over…
K.J. Rodgers Crownsville, Maryland …. …. Abigail Dillen, an Earthjustice VP, tries spread dirt by reciting junk science and debunked facts about natural gas and it clearly shows. Those in opposition to natural gas cling to ideas no matter how many times they are discredited. It is the same with anti-vaxers who would rather put…
Just in time for Halloween, the Associated Press facilitated some classic “Keep It in the Ground” fear-mongering Tuesday by publishing an op-ed penned by Texas A&M University professor Gunnar Schade that essentially claims the shale boom has damaged U.S. air quality over the past 10 years. From Dr. Schade’s op-ed: “[A]bout 10 years ago, the…
Environmental groups have repeatedly attributed the Four Corners methane “hot spot” over the borders of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah to oil and gas development, using it as the focal point of their justification for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) controversial venting and flaring rules on federal lands. But there is a huge…
Vanity Fair has published a lengthy overview of the #ExxonKnew investigations ahead of the second anniversary of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issuing his first subpoena to ExxonMobil. The article comes at an awkward time for the #ExxonKnew campaign, as the investigations have yet to uncover any evidence of fraud and the campaign in…