October 2012 Blog Posts (64)

Moratorium Balloon Bursts

The Binghamton moratorium balloon just burst and, while David Slottje tries to pretend the fragments are just celebratory confetti, the reality is that this was a failed strategy employed by a minority of communities and voices within those communities who have been exploited by David Slottje and others to deprive the majority of their land rights.

The strategy employed by natural gas opponents to stop development by delay has become personal for me because there is a concerted effort…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 22, 2012 at 10:53am — No Comments

Obama establishes standards to require operators to capture pollutants of new gas wells



Story from MLive.

 

To ensure that hydraulic fracking is done in a safe and responsible manner, President Obama has proposed a number of safeguards to protect against water…
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Added by Keith Mauck (Site Publisher) on October 22, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

Romney on Fracking: Leaving it to the states

Story from MLive

 

Mitt Romney believes that is a decision for Michiganders. Rather than pursue a one-size-fits-all federal regulatory approach to energy development as…

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Added by Keith Mauck (Site Publisher) on October 22, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

Draft Rule Requiring Public Disclosure of Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing on Public and Indian Lands

Commonsense Measures Will Support Safe and Responsible Increased Production of America’s Resources



05/04/2012



Contact: Adam Fetcher (DOI) 202 208-6416

Megan Crandall (BLM) (202) 912-7411



WASHINGTON, D.C. – In support of President Obama’s…

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Added by Keith Mauck (Site Publisher) on October 22, 2012 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Uni Blake Takes on Anecdotal Evidence Against Natural Gas

Uni Blake explains the problems with anecdotal evidence used by natural gas opponents. While the general public may find anecdotal evidence highly compelling, most scientists are suspicious of data that rests on anecdotes. The idea research can be based solely on pooling more than one anecdote to create data is problematic – more than one anecdote is just more anecdote(s), not data. The study released recently by Earthworks’ Oil and Gas Accountability Project, “Gas Patch Roulette” is an…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 19, 2012 at 10:03pm — No Comments

Ruffalo Tries Soothing Conscience with OPM

Mark Ruffalo is practicing “energy independence” by installing solar panels at one of his houses in New York using taxpayer money. According to Ruffalo, the $9,003.08 needed from him for the project was no big deal. Well, probably not given the $15,000 plus contribution from taxpayers to subsidize an uneconomical project.

A recent interview highlighted how Mark Ruffalo recently installed $20,000 to $25,000 worth of solar panels in his backyard to harvest the sun’s energy and soothe…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 19, 2012 at 4:13pm — No Comments

Philly Takes Impact Fees While Opposing Natural Gas

The passing of the new impact fee means a lot of communities, even those outside of the producible Marcellus Shale, will see tremendous payouts. But what about those who are in the Marcellus and unable to develop because of the Delaware River Basin Commission? Robert Nolan takes an in-depth look at how the numbers add up across the state. Over 400 years ago, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Marcellus uttered a similar, famous quote with reference to the state of Denmark (“Something is rotten in…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 17, 2012 at 9:11pm — No Comments

Poor Man’s Pugh Provision: Separate Parcels on Separate Oil and Gas Leases

A landowner leasing multiple parcels to an Oil and Gas Company should generally seek to lease the multiple parcels on separate Oil and Gas Leases.  When multiple parcels are listed on the same Oil and Gas Lease the Gas Company can typically “hold” all of the parcels under lease by merely meeting the minimum Lease requirement(s) to “extend” the gas lease on any one of the individually identified Leased parcels.



Oil and Gas Leases typically “describe” the “Leasehold”,…

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Added by Douglas A. Clark, Esq. on October 17, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

1,000+ March on Albany for Natural Gas

About one thousand people spent the day in Albany expressing their support of natural gas outside Governor Cuomo’s office through signs and speeches on Monday. The rally was a great success with the message to, “Put New Yorker’s back to work, let’s start permitting natural gas,” at the forefront.

Approximately 1,000 people traveled up to Albany, New York to show their support for natural gas in New York on Monday. The group assembled, displayed signs and spoke out to show Governor…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 16, 2012 at 9:55pm — No Comments

PennEnvironment Report Bites the Dust

We laid the foundations for analyzing the report “The Costs of Fracking” in Part I of this series. Now we’ll delve further into this 49-page paper from a group caught twice using fabricated imagery to stimulate a negative response against natural gas development.

This report is riddled with misleading information and assumptions. One of the most widely inappropriate parts of this study was the authors took information from across the country and tried to generically apply every…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 15, 2012 at 10:06pm — No Comments

Global Frackdown: Hypocrisy [VIDEO]

Che Guevara shirts, indoctrinated kids, calls to ration energy, lies, evasions, and even a low blow at Andrew Breitbart.

FrackNation saw and heard it all when we interviewed anti-fracking protesters last month: http://bit.ly/GFDhypocrisy…

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Added by Daniel T. Richards on October 15, 2012 at 4:09pm — No Comments

Needed: Chevron lease agent contact info.

Could someone please give contact information for a Chevron lease agent who is actively leasing in Clarion County?  I have some property which I would like to lease to Chevron.  Thanks.

Added by Kim Mowrey on October 15, 2012 at 2:02pm — No Comments

Artists Against Fracking Have No Credibility

The Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, an organization with the same New York City address as other natural gas opponents in that state, has made a point of repeatedly attacking residents who actually have to make a living in the Upper Delaware valley. Curt Coccodrilli takes on the organization and one of the group’s leaders for their elitist attitude.

Early last month, Senator Pat Toomey visited Wayne County to meet with various landowners and local officials about the subject of…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 15, 2012 at 10:35am — No Comments

Williamsport Natural Gas Start-Up Company Giving Back to Community

Bridget Fink

Owner, Briggy Bandz

The natural gas boom from the…

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Added by Nicole Jacobs on October 15, 2012 at 10:28am — No Comments

Promised Land Looks To Be Pitiful Propaganda

Matt Damon is coming out with another anti-gas movie called Promised Land. Vic Furman got a chance to see the trailer on the big screen and was not impressed by what turned out to be a piece of pitiful propaganda full of nonsense, disrespectful to rural people and financed by Middle East interests.

This past week I went to the movie theater on Upper Front Street in Binghamton. I bought some popcorn and a Diet Coke in preparation to see a movie.

The previews played, including…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 14, 2012 at 9:01pm — No Comments

Two CNG Stations coming to Clarion County

Two CNG stations coming to Clarion County PA

 

CLARION, PA (by Tom DiStefano, The Clarion News)

The idea has been around for years, but without stations open to the public, only a few vehicles – usually in large company or government fleets – used natural gas as a fuel.…

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Added by Interested Party on October 13, 2012 at 9:43am — No Comments

Truth or Politics? Which Will Set Natural Gas Opportunities Free?

Cris Pasto reflects on truth versus politics in the playing out of the natural gas saga in New York State. He notes everything the other side says it wants is readily available from natural gas, yet they refuse to see it, preferring an alternative reality and narrative with nothing to back it up.

I started feeling a bit guilty for not addressing the latest stall tactic in NY with a push for a health impact review sooner. It’s just that I’ve been getting so irritated with the anti-gas…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 13, 2012 at 8:16am — No Comments

Homer Considers Moratorium in Shadow of Binghamton

The Town of Homer had a public hearing last week to discuss enacting a moratorium for this Cortland County community, incredible as that may seem after the stunning overturn of the Binghamton version by the Broome County Supreme Court.

There was a public hearing late last week in the Town of Homer, Cortland County, New York, where the town board is considering (not necessarily supporting) a natural gas moratorium apparently being pushed by a local group of opponents, despite what…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 12, 2012 at 7:04am — No Comments

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