New York isn’t allowing any horizontal drilling in the Marcellus Shale just yet, but that hasn’t stopped some companies from planning ahead. Epsilon Energy is drilling into the Oriskany (just below the Marcellus …
The Campaign Contributions & Lobbying Expenditures of the Natural Gas Industry in Pennsylvania
Introduction
Pennsylvania has often been described as the “Wild West” of campaign financing. Ours is one of only eleven …
STAMFORD, Conn., May 4 (UPI)
The U.S. subsidiary of Statoil announced Tuesday it landed a deal to ship gas from the Marcellus shale play …
New York State environmental officials announced on Friday that they would impose far stricter regulations on a controversial type of natural gas …
Hundreds of people living near a natural-gas drilling site in northwest Louisiana have been forced to evacuate their homes after gas seeped into their drinking water.…
The Marcellus Shale field – the mammoth layer of deeply buried natural gas that runs across Pennsylvania and into neighboring Appalachian states – has promised to be an employment generator par excellence, creating tens of thousands …
A federal study of hydraulic fracturing set to begin this spring is expected to provide the most expansive look yet …
(Reuters) – Philadelphia officials asked a state regulator on Thursday to ban the natural-gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing until its environmental effects, especially …
Don’t Jump to Conclusions
Introduction
In light of the undisputed potential for environmental harm from gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, the principal reason advanced for taking the environmental …
In the debate over energy resources, natural gas is often considered a “lesser-of-evils”. While it does release some greenhouse gases, natural gas burns cleaner than coal and oil, and is in plentiful supply—parts of the U.S. …
We probably all agree that if gas drilling is to be done in the Upper Delaware, a precious watershed that provides fresh water to 25 million …
The city of Fort Worth, Texas, one of the biggest beneficiaries in the natural-gas boom, is questioning its …
