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PennEnvironment Tries Stupid Pet(ition) Trick

Freelance journalist Josh Wengler investigates the “largest ever public outcry” against fracking in the Commonwealth and finds it looks more like a cheap stunt than anything else, with all too little credibility.

In a press release circulated by the activist group PennEnvironment recently and echoed by Food and Water Watch, a consortium of anti-fracking groups proclaimed a powerful achievement: Delivery of a petition bearing more than 100,000 signatures to the Pennsylvania legislature…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on June 8, 2013 at 6:45am — No Comments

Windsor Taxpayers Gain Even More from Shale Gas

Windsor, New York is the home of Marcellus Drilling News and Jim Willis, MDN’s owner, reports on what is some very good news, indeed, as shale gas and pipelines are delivering huge savings for taxpayers in that area – something that just doesn’t happen in upstate New York that often.

Last October, MDN told you about the Town of Windsor (where we write from!) in Broome County, NY, along the border of Pennsylvania. Windsor saw a new 9-mile section of natural gas pipeline and a…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on June 7, 2013 at 2:27pm — No Comments

Otsego County Pays for Middlefield Ban

Otsego County, New York, wrestles with the economic difficulty of operating a long-term care facility, the operation of which could have been more easily supported had the Town of Middlefield not scuttled natural gas development plans that might have supplied the facility.

The continuing discussion about the outcome for the Otsego Manor, our county long-term care facility near Cooperstown, New York, reveals what is a losing situation for all involved. The Manor should never have been…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on June 6, 2013 at 11:34pm — No Comments

OOGEEP and Chesapeake Enlighten Audience At Shale and Beyond Conference

Energy In Depth's Shawn:

"Yesterday, Ohio University hosted the 2nd annual Shale and Beyond Conference at their Athens campus.  The panelists shared their views across the board at how best to prepare for Utica Shale development as it continues to grow and revitalize eastern Ohio.  In attendance were nearly one hundred community and business…

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Added by Anne Carto on June 6, 2013 at 10:27am — No Comments

Transzap Announces Milestone, Record Number of Companies Employ Oildex’s Smart Data Management Solutions

Denver, CO and Houston, TX (PRWEB) June 06, 2013

Oildex, the innovator of  cloud-based smart information management solutions for the energy industry, is  pleased to announce that a record number of new customers have employed its  ePayables, eRevenue and eStatement services. Over the previous year, the number  of customers who adopted Oildex’s solutions grew by more than 53% and new  revenue increased by…

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Added by Oildex on June 6, 2013 at 10:15am — No Comments

*UPDATE* Mahoning Valley Industrial Parks Filling Up on Oil, Natural Gas Investment

UPDATE (6/4/2013 12:00 pm ET): The Ohio Commerce Center has improved vastly in the past three years, thanks in part to shale development.  Owners George and Spiro Bakeris purchased the park three years ago and have since invested millions of dollars to improve infrastructure and attract new tenants.

Workers are continuing construction on new rail infrastructure improvements, which have actually brought in a new…

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Added by Anne Carto on June 5, 2013 at 10:16am — No Comments

NiSource Gives Back to Columbiana County

Another company involved in Ohio’s Utica Shale is stepping up to improve the state.  NiSource Midstream Services donated $50,000 to help the Columbiana County Park District extend a path two miles for the Greenway Bike Trail.  NiSource is currently partnering with Hilcorp on the Hickory Bend Gathering System and Processing Plant, meaning they are heavily…

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Added by Anne Carto on June 4, 2013 at 12:24pm — No Comments

Bamberger Hamburger

Michelle Bamberger and friends are at it again, telling people the natural gas industry is responsible for sick animals — offering not even a shred of evidence of causation.

Some of NaturalGasNOW’s readers may recall a post my daughter Rachael did a while back on the EID Marcellus blog regarding Michelle Bamberger, the woman who did a study on sick animals in natural gas development areas and admitted finding no scientific link between the two, yet in the same breath condemned the…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on June 3, 2013 at 9:40pm — No Comments

UPDATE: MarkWest Announces Its Plans For Harrison County

Energy In Depth's Shawn:

"UPDATE (5/31/12, 10:00 am ET):  MarkWest has come a long way since they announced their plans to build natural gas processing facilities in Cadiz last August. MarkWest has been processing 60 million cubic feet of gas per day (Mmcf/d), removing the wet gas components of ethane, butane, propane and pentane since late last year from their temporary facility. Just this month, MarkWest completed…

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Added by Anne Carto on June 3, 2013 at 11:57am — No Comments

New Resources for Pennsylvania and West Virginia Landowners and Professionals

We have added some new resources for landowners, surface rights owners, and private wells owners in Pennsylvania and West Virgina.  The resources cover the general aspects of water quality monitoring related to natural gas development that may be conducted by the gas companies and screening tests that you may want to conduct on your own.  You can find these presentations and information at

 

Webinar -…

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Added by Brian Oram, PG on June 1, 2013 at 5:23pm — No Comments

*UPDATE* Stark State College Moving On Up and Downtown

Energy In Depth's Mike:

"UPDATE (5/30/2013, 11:25 ET):  There is more great news out of the Utica Capital this week as Stark State College has purchased a building and announced plans that it will open the…

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Added by Anne Carto on May 31, 2013 at 10:13am — No Comments

Andy Ditherer Cuomo

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo practices the fine art of political obfuscation and delay with two of his latest pronouncements on the subject of natural gas development in a state that desperately needs it – now.

Two stories from last week are harbingers of bad news for landowners and businesses who want to see fracking begin in New York: (1) Gov. Andy “Ditherer” Cuomo told the Syracuse Post-Standard editorial board he’s pushing off a decision on fracking until next year’s 2014…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on May 30, 2013 at 11:15pm — No Comments

GE Uses Their Imagination For Shale Development

EID's Shawn:

"When one thinks of the company General Electric (GE), they think of innovation.  It seems fitting, then, that GE is increasing its role within one of the most innovative industries in the world: oil and gas.  In recent months GE’s oil and gas division has been making acquisitions and announcements to show they are committed to helping drive technological innovation in the oil and gas industry for many years to come.

Shale…

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Added by Anne Carto on May 30, 2013 at 10:30am — No Comments

THINK, New Yorkers!

Natural gas in upstate New York communities is common and long-standing, yet the state wrings its hands over allowing its citizens to produce it, even when the safety is well-documented and the economic need is apparent to all. New Yorkers need to THINK, please!

Broome County lies next door to me and has used natural gas as a main source of heat for over 100 years, as have cities such as Ithaca, one of the hotbeds of natural gas opposition today. Here's how it happened:

"NYSEG…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on May 29, 2013 at 10:21pm — No Comments

Rail Industry Key to Utica Shale’s Success

"The current buzz concerning Ohio’s Utica Shale is midstream development.  People want to know when and where processing facilities and pipelines will come online so producers can start getting more product to market.  What isn’t often talked about, however, is how things are transported until those come online, and how the processed liquids will be transported once Ohio does have more midstream capabilities. For many companies, the answer is rail.

In the beginning of the state’s…

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Added by Anne Carto on May 29, 2013 at 10:53am — No Comments

ANGA Donates $50,000 to Train Veterans for Natural Gas Jobs

America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) recently donated $50,000 to the Support Our Troops Education Fund.  The money will go towards scholarships for Ohio veterans pursuing a career in the natural gas industry.  Through a partnership with Stark State College in North Canton and Eastern Gateway Community College in Steubenville, the funds will…

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Added by Anne Carto on May 28, 2013 at 10:57am — No Comments

Scranton Times-Tribune Trashes Industry While Selling To It

The Lynett family, owner of Scranton Times-Tribune newspaper and the affiliated Northeast Driller, has been simultaneously trashing the natural gas industry and profiting from it. Now it has allied itself with an anti-gas group in what may be an attempt to steer business toward another business venture – an environmental services company.

The Scranton Times-Tribune launched another attack on the natural gas industry in last Sunday’s edition with the outrageous top of the fold front…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on May 26, 2013 at 11:56am — No Comments

Cincinnati City Council Lacks Education On Ohio’s UIC Program

EID's Shawn:

"Last week the Cincinnati City Council passed a resolution supporting a statewide ban on injection wells, which unfortunately isn’t the first time they have taken aim at disposal wells.  Just last year they passed a resolution to ban…

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Added by Anne Carto on May 24, 2013 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Guest Post: Oil and Gas: The Tale of Two Revolutions by Stephen Moore, CEO Petro Chase

War, religion, politics, and guns have been hotly contested topics for decades, even millennia. It hasn’t been until the last decade or so when families, friends, and communities starting debating each other on the steps of state capitols and at dinner tables across the country over all aspects of energy, especially natural resource development.



It’s become an emotional debate, with two sides that feel like the other is not listening. Companies are frustrated,…

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Added by Keith Mauck (Site Publisher) on May 24, 2013 at 2:30pm — No Comments

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