Anyone trying to understand the truth about hydraulic fracturing needs to read reports and stories about it with an eye for what’s left out, because that’s often where the truth is to be found. 

Jon Campbell authors a blog called Politics on The Hudson and recently reported on a “study” published by from New York Environment,…

Some perspective on where shale gas has been and how far it’s come is provided through the pen of a UK author who has toured Dimock and knows the truth.

Although the majority of UK residents have only heard of shale gas recently, I’m in year six of the journey. That means not only have I heard it all before as the various myths I have previously refuted here show, I’ve also seen how the shale story has evolved.

I first reported on the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania in August,…

New York City has been stealing water from Delaware County for more than half a century and now it wants to steal its natural gas as well, along with its future.

I’m a landowner and lifelong resident of the Deposit area of Delaware County. My husband and I own 55 acres where we live with our two, soon to be three, little boys. Delaware County landowners and taxpayers have been struggling to be heard by New York City for more than 50 years, but the last five years have been the most…

Progressive columnist and crank Jim Hightower penned a fact-free story the other day in attempt to slander the oil and natural gas industry. Hightower apparently thinks ridicule and sarcasm are compelling arguments but the facts indicate otherwise.

Progressives and professional activists never seem to let a good tragedy go to waste. This time it’s Jim Hightower and his laughable analysis of the Colorado flooding tragedy. Hightower goes straight to the bottom right off the bat when he…

Cabot Oil & Gas just came out with some numbers that offer the definitive pushback to the Frackonomics of Deborah Rogers, the goat farmer and model whose presentations might better be labeled “Foolonomics” given their purpose of fooling the public.



Deborah Rogers was in New York City the other day during her “Frackonomics” song and dance before a group of anti-development legislators and special interests.  State Senator Brad Hoylman, one of the sponsors,…

Wind energy has a place in our national energy portfolio but organizations offering it as an alternative to natural gas miss the entire point and when the DOE over-hypes wind energy with misleading statements, no one is helped.

Last month, the US Department of Energy (DOE) released two studies plugging for wind energy. Renewables are a natural complement to natural gas but, unfortunately, the data presented is very misleading and twists reality to make wind energy look a lot better…

An on-line publication called Gourmet News recently did a story on fracking that caused Jeff Heller to offer some much needed perspective on how real farmers feel about fracking. Here is what he told the editor:

My name is Jeff Heller and I am the president of the Steuben County Landowners Coalition in New York. Neil Vitale is our vice president and I understand he has already talked to you on this. He may have told you that we have 1,700 families in the coalition who own 225,000…

Tony Ingraffea knows how to work an audience and his night in town at Canisius College was a perfect illustration – all show and almost no substance. Cherie Messore reports.

When I heard that Dr. Tony Ingraffea was going to speak at Canisius College on Thursday, Oct 3, I wondered why. Canisius has an outstanding reputation for its business programs and traditional Jesuit values. It’s not a science school per se or the kind place where student unrest is part of the campus culture. I…

Jim Willis notes the Park Foundation has financed Duke University’s Nicholas School and, for good measure, thrown some additional money at the institution to put out another of those headline grabbing studies with no substance.

Those anti-drilling adolescents at Duke University are at it again. They released a very flawed “study” in a “peer-reviewed” journal yesterday (a study funded in part by the anti-drilling Park Foundation) that took samples from a creek downstream from a…

Enviers of European ways and fractivists are fond of crowing about France banning hydraulic fracturing but, as Nick Grealy demonstrates, the tide is quickly turning of necessity. Watch what they do, not what they say.

We can expect interesting developments from France this month. I’ve been noting for some time that the combination of France’s oil riches in the Paris Basin and the inherent rationality of France will overcome the various narratives that led to the French ban of…

A blatant effort by a gentry class of second home owners to take over rural towns and stop natural gas development must be resisted by local residents.

An article appeared in the River Reporter last week with the title “Targeting second-home owner voters; Acting couple to host voter registration drive.” It referred to an effort by Debra Winger (net worth of $22 million) and her husband Arliss Howard to get New York City residents to register to vote in Sullivan County, New York, and…

Pennsylvania’s oil and gas regulatory program is much stronger than suggested by fractivists and some New Yorkers who’d like to think their state is superior in every way.

Spending a lot of time in New York, one gets used to hearing, over and over again, from fractivists and others, how Pennsylvania’s oil and gas regulatory program is somehow flawed. Truth is, though, the Commonwealth has a superb program, one that should be the envy of other states and that’s not my evaluation but…