Cabot and Williams are working with the Pennsylvania Association for Rural and Small Schools to deliver new educational tools to innovative small schools.

Edward Albert is in his third year as executive director of Pennsylvania Association for Rural and Small Schools (PARSS). The former superintendent of the Tulpehocken Area School District in Berks County took a decidedly hands-on…

The Southern Tier is like a fallen leaf, dried up and scattered to the wind, destined to be mulch, its people trapped in a vicious cycle wrought by Cuomo.

One of the favorite canards of the anti-fossil crowd (canard – an unfounded story, not to be confused with the French “quacking duck” from whence it derives) is that areas where natural gas is developed suffer declines in real estate values.

This is patently false. Real estate prices always decline…

The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about U.S. oil, PA production, Susquehanna County 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,…

Natural gas energy is electrifying the world, giving power to the poor. New technology is going to accelerate the process. Natural gas energy IS our future.

Two stories came to my attention yesterday that illustrate natural gas energy is our future. The first is …

Range Resources has been working with conservationists and others to enhance Monarch Butterfly habitat and “seed the future” for this very special species.

It’s not a connection many people might readily make—natural gas development and an increase in the number of monarch butterflies in the region. But for California University of…

Recycling of frack water for reuse in hydraulic fracturing is old news, but the University of Pttsburgh is now learning how to turn it into high-quality water.

The University of Pittsburgh is getting a $1.76 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to pilot test a new method of treating frack wastewater. When we read the headline about this grant we rolled our eyes. Really? There are plenty of private firms who cracked the frack wastewater recycling…

Article 10 of the New York State Public Service Law allows the governor’s henchmen to coerce towns into accepting backyard wind farms. Where did home rule go?

Yesterday’s post from the Institute for Energy Research generated …

Fractivist pipeline opposition began a few years ago as they found the only way to stop gas development was to choke it off. That’s not working either.

There’s no better place to get the latest news on natural gas then Marcellus Drilling News. Yesterday, it carried …

Local energy companies and Junior Achievement team up to offer area educators a fun day of STEM training with activities to take back to the classroom.

On Oct. 5, Cabot Oil & Gas, UGI Energy Services and …

Could wind farms cause global warming, possibly even more than fossil fuels? A new Harvard University study suggests they could.

A Harvard University study suggests that, under certain conditions and in the near term, increased wind power could mean more climate warming than would be caused by the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity. The…

Four counties in Pennsylvania—Bradford, Greene, Susquehanna and Washington—can supply all the natural gas needed by Germany. It can give Russia the Heisman.

My post the other day about the fact “Susquehanna County Produces More Than 4% of U.S.” has been quite well read. The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) monthly data for…

Rural patients in the Endless Mountains, thanks to natural gas development, now have better access to health care and, overall, an improved quality of life.

As a life-long resident of Susquehanna County and CEO of Endless Mountains Health Systems (EMHS), Loren Stone has seen primary care and critical access in his community all but disappear. Fortunately, he has seen it come back to…

Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court just decided a case in Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County, that strikes a blow for common sense in applying the law.

The case has an impossibly long name, so I’ll just refer to it as “Allegheny Township.” You can find my highlighted version of it here. It’s 69 pages, but quite readable in…

Have members of the New York Post editorial staff been reading NaturalGasNOW? It sure looks that way. They just endorsed Molinaro over Corruptocrat Cuomo.

Perhaps I should have copyrighted the term. My use of Corruptocrat to describe Andrew Cuomo has mostly been well received by NaturalGasNOW readers. One follower did advise me to go lighter on it. It seems, though, the New York Post agrees it is only natural to call Cuomo by the slang term that…

Local energy companies contribute close to $30,000 to firefighter training center which will help prepare the community’s first responders.

In August, energy companies collectively contributed about $30,000 toward an addition to a firefighter training center in southern Schuylkill County during the 64th annual …

European LNG demands are growing along with imports of Russian gas and if Europeans don’t want to be clawed by the Russian bear they’ll need our gas.

New data compiled by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) indicates just how much demand there will be for our US LNG in the years ahead. European LNG demands are growing for two reasons. One is their refusal to entertain fracking or more nuclear power. The other is the obvious risk in becoming dependent…

Tunkhannock is getting natural gas service and stepping into the second phase of its future; a future built on sustainable natural gas development.

Ground was ceremoniously broken on Oct. 16 for the first phase of a public natural gas service project in Tunkhannock. UGI Utilities is overseeing the project, which will begin with the simultaneous construction of a gate station in Tunkhannock Township to tap a Williams line and the installation of a trunk into…

Those who oppose natural gas development often cite threats to drinking water quality as a reason, but the facts tell us water quality depends on much else.

Several years ago, I participated in a fracking debate at Bloomsburg University with Tony Ingraffea and some other folks. It was a fun evening. The crowd, of course, was fractivist to the core but the debate was lively and worthwhile. Three things stand out in my memory of the event.

One was…

Will Colorado voters, residents of a state with a huge oil and gas industry benefiting them in innumerable ways, choose to gut their own state economy?

The anti-fracking folks are trying a clever new strategy in Colorado. Instead of banning fracking, they just make it impossible. In fact, they make nearly all oil and gas development and production impossible – which is exactly what radical “leave it in the ground” eco factions demand.

However, the…

Gordon Tomb, relates some recent findings by the Manhattan Institute; findings demonstrating natural gas outshines solar and blows past wind in practicality.

Natural gas, not alternative sources, is by far the best investment for the production of electricity, according to a recent report by the Manhattan Institute.

According to…