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…

This week, Energy in Depth attended the Stark County Oil & Gas Partnership’s flagship event.  “Choose Stark County” featured key industry leaders to update the community on the oil and gas industry’s presence and potential opportunities in Stark County.  More than 250 attended the business to business networking opportunity and listened to…

A group called the Healthy Schools Network has been trying to make a case against hydraulic fracturing and natural gas development in New York. It turns out the group has very unhealthy extremist connections.

Last Friday’s Susan Arbetter show out of Albany (“The Capitol Pressroom”) included, at 38:00, an interview with two individuals from an organization known as the Healthy Schools Network about the impact of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas development on New York Schools. It…

Those opposed to natural gas development have descended to a new low in soliciting petition signatures from people far outside areas that will see any development.  First they looked to celebrities and now they seek help wherever they can find it, including foreign nations.  When will they take the hint that they are in the minority?



A couple months ago during a the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) scoping hearing on the Constitution Pipeline  I spoke…

If you thought the Sierra Club’s endorsement of anti natural gas activist, Vera Scroggins, in a recent letter, was bad because of an interaction displayed on her YouTube channel, just wait until you see what was left on the cutting room floor.

We came across yet another Vera Scroggins video this week that literally made my jaw hit my desk. I couldn’t understand in the original video, which can be viewed here, how anyone could be proud to have behaved in such a manner. Well, after…

Building on strong numbers from 2012, Utica Shale development has been taking off this year in Ohio. It seems we see headlines each week in newspapers all over the Buckeye state indicating new jobs, investments, and…

EID's Shawn provides an update on Antero's involvement in Ohio's Utica Shale:

"Antero Resources out of Denver, Colorado recently announced their capitol budget for 2013.  In their proposal, Antero plans to spend $149.5 million in exploration and production while operating two rigs in the Utica-Point Pleasant over the next year.  In addition to…

The celebrity tour of Dimock has been in and out of the news for the past few weeks. But, with all these natural gas impacts the celebs reported seeing, what about the many things that never even got a mention?

It’s been a couple of weeks now since some well known celebrities and their…

located in the highest point of mercer county---far away from the damaged shale around the sandy lake pot hole lake---land  was owned by sherman rhodes and later given to e a rhodes who sold it to mr george of canfield ohio who was the prime mover of bringing in polminex gas to open up the area in 1983.  polminex drilled 14 wells in the area and they have continued producing all thes years--thus the very favorable lease agreements that big oil loves to have...no big payouts to get a…

EID's Shawn reports on Magnum Hunter coming to Ohio to develop Ohio's Utica Shale:

"Magnum Hunter Resources is the next company focusing on the Utica-Point Pleasant formation in 2013.  The company, based out of Houston, is an independent exploration and production company active in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas, North Dakota, and Saskatchewan, Canada.  In the Utica/Point Pleasant, Magnum Hunter will be developing a minimum of 4…

Don Roessler discusses the impacts natural gas is having on the trucking and railroad industries, specifically the decision to convert many of these vehicles to compressed natural gas (CNG).

Since this is my first time writing for this website, I’d like to give you a little background before I begin so you can have a better understanding of my interest in natural gas and it’s use as a fuel source for the trucking and railroad industries. My roots are in Washington County, Pa. where…

Chesapeake Energy Corporation is giving back to the community once again in Utica Shale country.  The company recently celebrated 2013 by donating Chevy Tahoes to law enforcement agencies in Columbiana and Carroll counties.  Both counties are highly involved in the Utica Shale play.

The vehicles are specially customized and will help the departments with costs by filling a need for the K9 and SWAT units. …