Henry S. Lowman of the Lincoln Institute takes a look at U.S. natural gas export potential, specifically in the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania.

There is an old adage in the real estate business that three factors affect the price of a property: location, location, location. It is a truism that might also be adopted by Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry. Not only is the Commonwealth blessed by abundant reserves in both the Marcellus and Utica shale regions, but our geographic…

The Rational Middle Energy Series aims to educate the public about energy consumption and sources. Given a majority of the public thinks electricity comes from the wall, this series is a much needed.

No signs, no yelling, no cameras, no radical viewpoints; welcome to the rational middle. The Rational Middle Energy Series is a set of short movies geared towards the people stuck in the middle of this great energy debate about where we should obtain our energy. Like it or not, energy…

The U.S. is flush with energy sources if we have the wherewithal to develop them. It’s long past time we unlocked the potential our resources offer and move the nation toward energy independence.

This year’s presidential election is a choice election. One of the choices is the politics of scarcity versus abundance. Liberal policies never produce plenty; at best they produce subsistence, at worst shortages. This is especially true in energy.

The shortage-mongers say we have only…

Electricity Rates from Coal & Natural Gas Plants would Go Up Under Cap N Trade

President Obama on climate change and global warming

Climate change is the one of the biggest issues of this generation, and we have to meet this challenge by driving smart policies that lead to greater growth in clean energy generation and result in a range of economic and social benefits. Since taking office I have established historic…

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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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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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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Obama's position is…

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…

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…

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…

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”,…

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…

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…

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…

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.