A review of funding provided to groups opposing hydraulic fracturing shows that NGOs and Foundations provided over $35 million in 2012 to groups working to block shale development which includes $100,000 for the creation of Gasland III before the second iteration of the pathos-driven film series is even released on HBO. Read more at…See More

FrackNation was viewed in Sullivan County, New York last week near the homes of some celebrity activists opposed to natural gas development – activists like Mark Ruffalo, who seems unwilling to actually debate the issue with knowledgeable folks who disagree with his opinions.  Read more at…See More

Natural gas opponents thought, for the zillionth time last year, they had found a game changer in Dr. Tom Myers report indicating it was theoretically possible for fracturing to migrate thousands of feet upward through multiple layers of rock but new research indicates the Myers study essentially defies gravity, science and hydrogeology and seems to have been done to curry favor with the usual suspects. Read more at…See More

One of the landowners denied entrance to the Gasland Part II premiere in trendy Tribeca several days ago describes her experience. Film festival security were determined to keep out ticket holders who might ask Josh Fox questions and challenge his distortions of the facts.  Read more at http://eidmarcellus.org/marcellus-shale/gasland-part-2-leaves-landowners-out-on-the-streets/19711/See More

Over the weekend, I went on another of those Vera Scroggins/Craig Stevens tours of Northeastern Pennsylvania — as an uninvited guest, of course.  This tour was for the “benefit” of three New York State Senators from the New York City area, all of whom apparently knew little to nothing about their ghost-busting tour guides — and even less about natural gas.  It was, predictably, a fiasco.  Read more at…See More

Gasland Part II is coming and, like most sequels, it’s likely to be a dud. But Josh Fox says he plans on generating a “frenzy” to hype the movie, and it will find a receptive audience among those who want to clear out rural America so they can have it for themselves.  Read more at http://eidmarcellus.org/marcellus-shale/foxs-phony-firewater-frenzy-over-gasland-part-ii/19412/See More