Betty Sutliff, Wayne County Landowner, member of Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance, retired schoolteacher and mother comments on the increasing tendency of the natural gas opposition to exploit children in their campaigns, while also pursuing the indoctrination of these young minds.

Children: Everyone recognizes the weight given to the indoctrination of them when they are young and impressionable, but the type of indoctrination and the relationship to the children of those…

The drama that is the New York State decision process on natural gas development is a Shakespearean tragedy in so many ways, but especially for businesses, landowners and residents of the Southern Tier, for whom all the talk about the SGEIS, regulations and health reviews are but excuses for political inaction which are giving groups such as the NRDC exactly what they want – more delay. Last week, I fielded about 20 questions from media and supporters asking for my analysis of what in the…

The United States, the one true superpower in the world, has become a paper tiger. The nation is no longer guided by Teddy Roosevelt’s adage, “Walk softly and carry a big stick.” Rather our leaders bluster and make big promises, but they fail to deliver.

Tunisia releases the only captured suspect in the Benghazi murders, and despite promises to find and punish the…

CONSOL Energy is giving back to Noble County by helping the local Noble County Habitat for Humanity build its first home in the county.  CONSOL Energy donated $6,000 to the organization to help them reach their goal of $50,000 to build the home for the needy family.  In addition to the generous donation, members of the CONSOL Energy Utica development team…

The following link takes you to the new law in North Carolina regarding landowner protections for oil and gas leases in NC.  Perhaps WV, PA and Ohio should consider like kind protections. http://www.ncrec.gov/pdf/OilGasSummaryOfLaw.pdf

This link takes you to a landowners rights and tips for landowners doucument published by NC Real Estate Commission. …

Economists throughout Ohio are discussing how the Youngstown area is benefitting from a stronger economy than the rest of the state, greatly due to Utica Shale development.  Kenneth Mayland, President of ClearView Economics LLC in Pepper Pike, George Mokrzan, Senior Vice President and Director of Economics at Huntington Banc Shares Inc. in Columbus, and A.J. Sumell, professor of economics at…

EID's Shawn reports on Rex Energy's announcement to develop 11 wells in Ohio's Utica/Point Pleasant formation in 2013:

"According to an investor presentation released yesterday, Rex Energy is looking to invest $85 million in Ohio next year while developing acreage in…

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• Employment rose 17 percent in core shale industries — pipeline construction and well drilling — between early 2011 and early 2012. Meanwhile employment in ancillary industries — freight trucking, environmental consulting — increased 3.1 percent.

• Average salary in core shale industries was $73,934 per year, while ancillary industries…

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          An extremely hot issue at the present time involves post-production costs or “deductions” that landowners are seeing subtracted from their gas royalty checks.  Typically, boilerplate Oil and Gas Leases offered to landowners clearly permit the gas company to deduct post-production costs for the cost of producing, gathering, storing, separating, treating, dehydrating, processing, transporting and marketing the oil and gas. 

          In the 2010 Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s…

What is the fracking debate really about? I recently received a random email from a fracktivist calling me an "idiot." Curious as to what was on this site visitor's mind, I sent a return email and "complimented" them on their "politeness."Side note: I…

Last week about 125 people gathered in Binghamton to attend a rally hosted by local labor union members. The rally featured several important speakers who articulated the many reasons why natural gas is so essential to the economy of the Southern Tier and the lives of union workers who reside there.

Southern Tier union workers rallied last week in Binghamton to send a message to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose repeated delays in approving natural gas development have…

The “Energy Mom” is an engineer, management consultant and investment manager who has spent most of her career working in the energy business. She lives in New York City, has three kids, lots of pets and a husband. Here she reports on testimony she gave before a committee of the New York State Assembly.

Last month I testified in front of a New York Assembly hearing on HIgh Volume Hydraulic Fracturing hosted by: Robert Sweeney, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Environmental…

The Sustainable Markets Foundation is behind much of the supposedly organic opposition to natural gas development in upstate New York and is using money from the Park Foundation and the Rockefellers to fund the effort with management and coordinative help from Walter Hang.

Why would a non-profit organization spending $4 million per year to “promote environmental protection, energy efficiency, consumer protection, health and safety and good government” not have a website? How can an…

Utica Shale development has brought many new businesses to Ohio and two of those are law firms.  Steptoe & Johnson PLLC and Jackson Kelly PLLC have both opened offices in Canton in the past year because of Ohio’s growing oil and gas industry.  While both firms have come to specialize in energy, they plan to expand into full service firms in the future.

Steptoe & Johnson’s Canton office is…

EID's Shawn provides an update on Gulfport's encouraging results in Ohio's Utica-Point Pleasant:

"UPDATE (02/4/2012, 11:00 am ET): The Stutzman 1-14H, which we reported on in January, has now been quantified and it looks like the well will be posting great revenue for Gulfport and the landowners receiving royalties.  It was recently reported by the Wheeling Intelligencer, the well…

EID's Shawn blogs on the ODJFS Shale Report highlighting the oil and gas industry's pivotal role in Ohio's economic recovery:

"A recent Ohio Department of Job and Families Services (ODJFS) Shale Report shows Ohioans are benefiting once again from shale development.  Coupling the recent US Chamber…