The American Petroleum Institute (API) has delivered major legal blow to the proposed DRBC fracking ban by setting out the many legal flaws to the thing.

API just delivered its comments on the proposed DRBC fracking ban. You can find their announcement and links to the comments, as well as a 42MB appendix setting out every conceivable technical problem, …

The Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens (UDRBC) met with Pennsylvania DEP officials Wednesday to talk about its future and what a DRBC fracking ban would do.

Six members of Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens (UDRBC) made a three hour trip to Harrisburg on March 28 to meet with Pennsylvania DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell.  The same group had previously spoken with the Secretary following a “Cabinet in Your…

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An op-ed article in the Intelligencer (Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania) serves to highlight the absurd stupidity of fractivists who imagine they’re reservoirs of intelligence. The writer, from Bucks…

Pennsylvania’s DCNR appears to be using the state’s Infrastructure Investment Authority (PennVest) to create a private Northwest PA Wilderness with public funds.

I have written here several times about the nature of the wealthy foundations, motivated by special interests, who are behind fractivism. They seek guilt-alleviating power and influence, hope to protect hedge fund investments in “clean energy” and engage in land scams threatened by natural gas…

The Balkans region of Europe has been forced to depend on Russian gas; by strengthening ties with the U.S. they hope to address this Russian meddling.

One year ago this week, the Senate voted 97-2 to admit Montenegro as the 29th member of NATO. Last week also marked 19 years since NATO planes bombed what was left of Yugoslavia.

The anniversary should serve as a reminder that the fledgling democracies of the six independent republics of the former…

Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court has recently issued two different decisions, both of which are good news for pipelines and bad news for fractivists.

The entire panel of judges sitting on Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court, an appeals court in PA, ruled yesterday that zoning regulations in a local municipality, in this case Middletown (Delaware County), do not supersede the state Public Utility Commission when it comes to regulating…

The leadership of Alberta, in confronting British Columbia pipeline politics, illustrates how others might want to handle New York pipeline issues.

Oh, poor baby, little B.C. Worried about your ouchie coochie wine business, are you?

Yeah, well you can whine all you want. Cry us a river, like one that will fill the Fraser Canyon.

Alberta’s NDP Premier Rachel Notley has shown some serious spine in Alberta’s conflict with British Columbia over…

Josh Fox has resurfaced and has sent out an email blast trying to drum up support for the DRBC’s proposed fracking ban. Let’s shut him down.

Josh Fox, as you may remember, is a fractivist known for his anti-fracking screed Gasland. It was a sham; full of deceit and exaggerations. It did not take long to realize this spoiled child extremist had no…

The La Jolla Junta conspiracy, instigated and funded by the NRDC gang (the Rockefeller family), together with two useful idiot cities, was shut out in court.

Proponents of the #ExxonKnew conspiracy theory—the driving force behind nine (and counting) multi-billion-dollar lawsuits filed by U.S. cities against the world’s leading oil companies—have had an awful month.

Last week, U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who is presiding over the suits filed by…

A quick look at stats illustrates why New York natural gas prices are so high and spike even higher at times of peak use; it’s about the lack of pipelines.

One of our astute readers commented the other day about the need to document the cost of pipeline delays to average New Yorkers. It prompted me to visit the Energy Information Administration (EIA) natural gas page to…

The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about gas prices, petrochemical plants, the power grid and much more last week.

The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH station! Gem 104 helps to solidify the Shale Gas News coverage in an important Marcellus region, PA’s northern tier. The Shale Gas News is now broadcasting in Bradford, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon, Luzerne,…

A Tweet, a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and an article in the Scottish press illustrate the dangers of extremist energy ideology.

Folks obsessed with Twitter love to use it to pick fights and a couple of weeks ago some Aussie who apparently wants to be known as the down-under Josh Fox or “Frackman,” targeted a few tweets at me. We had a couple of exchanges regarding property values near fracking sites, which ended with him…

The Delaware Riverkeeper a/k/a Delaware Povertykeeper has lost again, as FERC say it all — “bare allegations of what is likely to occur do not suffice.”

In August 2016, Millennium Pipeline, which stretches from Corning, NY to just outside New York City, filed an application for what it calls its Eastern System Upgrade. The Eastern System…

When the US withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord the world lost their minds. We now know what was in the agreement and we dodged a bullet!

During June of last year, what seemed like a majority of the world’s environmental spokespersons lost their minds as newly-elected Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Accord. Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Wenonah Hauter, and other people who incessantly demand our attention, all cried.

The US was the…

Solar installations plummeted in 2017 as solar subsidies required to sustain an industry not ready for primetime became far less appealing going forward.

The U.S. solar industry installed 30 percent less generating capacity in 2017 than in 2016—4.6 gigawatts less capacity. According to the U.S. Solar Market Insight Report 2017…

Brian Zinchuk suggests something’s wrong when professional protesters don’t seem to have any real jobs. Why do we have to deal these people? Why should they influence anything?

Our sister publication, Burnaby Now, is at the focal point of the Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline project, with the terminus of the pipeline in that Lower Mainland community.

On March 17, they ran a story about protestors getting arrested for zip-tying themselves to…

Natural Gas NOW readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.

It’s Not Just the Rockefellers Who Want to Make A Wilderness

The Rockefeller family has always been intent on…

It’s hard to imagine, but the Attorney General of our 15th largest state, Massachusetts, supposes Russian LNG shipments to Boston are better than pipelines.

One would have thought she would have obfuscated to avoid the embarrassment of having to admit her anti-gas, anti-pipeline campaign had cleared the way for Russian LNG to come to Boston. But, no, Maura Healey, the elected Attorney General of Massachusetts, …

The oil and gas industry, directed by the natural incentives that result from markets, is already reducing methane emissions in a way that benefits all.

Is it possible to have “near zero” methane emissions from oil and natural gas production operations and, at the same time, low-cost energy? Fortunately for Ohioans and shale-gas producers in Ohio the answer is yes. Not just any climate policy will achieve these twin goals, however. It will take one that…