Speculative fears are used by agenda-driven groups to suggest something’s hidden and must be found about hydraulic fracturing, but the process and fluids are an open book, so complete and mundane as to be boring to anyone interested in the facts. The truth is this; items arguably the safest of all are the ones most likely to be proprietary.

Some people are never happy. When I first became interested in natural gas as a landowner some four years ago, there was considerable controversy…

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has now published several stories about Rep. Jesse White and his campaign against DEP, natural gas and Range Resources, this being the most recent. While these stories provide many insights into the nature of Jesse, none quite capture the essence of the controversy as well as this 2009 video of him extolling the virtues of natural gas and Range Resources before he failed to get that plane ride.…

Wendy Lynne Lee is as entertaining as it gets.  Joe Massaro recently had the opportunity to listen to her read a paper full of assertions about the natural gas industry.  Called ?The Good Ole? Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing (Why Breast Cancer Is the Canary in the Fracking Coal Mine? the paper is about what you?d expect from a piece so titled.



Susquehanna University recently allowed Professor…

Uni Blake provides a summary of what happened (and didn’t happen) at a recent conference on the health effects of shale gas development. She concludes that after 5 years of closely examining the negatives impacts of gas development, there has been NO significant and NO widespread health effects reported or recorded.

“If you want to understand what a science is, you should look in the first instance not at its theories or findings, and certainly not at what its apologists say about it;…

This is the focus of a Penn State Extension seminar that will be presented in Coudersport, PA on NOV. 29th ...6:00 PM @ Firemen's Meeting Hall on 171, Rte 6W.  Speakers: 2 key Marcellus educators and 2 highly respected natural gas/oil attorneys.  Materials and information that will be shared are intended for lease holders whose leases will expire approximately within a year, or who have older leasing documents that may be altered to up-date/reflect newer drilling techniques, safer…

There are two posts up on our blog today regarding "green planning" opposition to natural gas development in Otsego and Tompkins Counties. One is by guest blogger Dave Parker and the other is by our Rachael Colley. You'll find these two posts raise serious issues regarding the legitimacy of the Tompkins County and Middlefield studies of natural gas impacts by a green planning firm. They include many of the same incorrect assertions.…

The Flowback is a propaganda piece developed with the help of a group named the Sustainable Markets Foundation, which is apparently run on behalf of trial lawyers with money provided by two very famous families. The facts about natural gas development contrast sharply with the fiction that constitute The Flowback.

We earlier provided some essential facts regarding who’s behind the publication of a penny saver insert and propaganda piece know as The Flowback – some very wealthy NIMBY…

Dr. Simona Perry spoke Wednesday night at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, which seems to be making a habit recently of entertaining natural gas opponent “experts.” Posing as an anthropologist or something, she seemed to be in way over her head and couldn’t hide her anti natural gas development agenda.

Earlier this week we sat in on a talk by Dr. Simona Perry, a research partner at c.a.s.e. Consulting Services. For those of you not familiar with Perry’s work she has a…

DeMetro Racing recently ended its season. As a team sponsored by Friends of Natural Gas New York, we are always looking for ways to give back. We will, on November 10th be hosting a food drive at the Price Chopper parking lot in Endicott, New York from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All food donated will go to the Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse in Binghamton, New York – another great example of the natural gas community serving the community.…

About 2 months ago they were doing the seismic testing down Rt. 44 Never heard anymore about it. Does that mean we are close? I called Chesapeake and I was told that no that is very preliminary and doesn't mean anything. Hoping she was wrong. I am hoping all this comes while I am still young enough and healthy enough to enjoy some royalties LOL

Nicole sorts through the “everyone’s an expert” mentality on natural gas development to get to the heart of who the real experts are on this topic (NOTE: It’s not the actors or politically correct academics).

There is a lot of information circulating in the media and on the internet about natural gas development. Much of this stems from meetings held around the area where so-called experts step up to the plate in an attempt to educate the public.  But, how do…

Link to My Washington Examiner OpEd

Predictions of U.S. dominance in the world oil market are a stunning reversal from the grim energy forecasts of a few years ago. Headlines are trumpeting that the United States could soon…

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A state representative from Western Pennsylvania has attacked the Pennsylvania DEP in a story reported in the New York Times and elsewhere with some fanfare, but readers need to know the background of the accusers, the real causes underlying their complaints and the facts about what belongs and doesn’t belong in a testing report. State Rep. Jesse White of Washington County has attacked the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on the word of a junkyard plaintiff, leaving…

Ian Urbina made an appearance at Susquehanna University where he gave a presentation on his New York Times series Drilling Down. The presentation actually showed what an “Investigative Journalist” with an agenda really looks like. This was made clear throughout his presentation, including in the question and answer portion when he withheld information regarding advances the industry has made since his series debuted years ago.

Ian Urbina recently made an appearance at Susquehanna…

HAS ANYBODY IN THE BERLIN AREA HAVING TROUBLE GETTING THEIR MONEY? WE ARE SUPPOSE TO OF HAD OURS BY NOVEMBER 1ST. HAVE NOT HEARD AND DO NOT HAVE. WHO SHOULD WE CALL???

Armstrong Search President to Address Audience on Signs of the Next Shale Boom

Energy and Title Expert Raymond Schmaus to Address Audience on Lessons Learned and How to Spot the Next Trend in Shale Gas

Pittsburgh,PA- Armstrong Search announced that founder and President, Raymond Schmaus, has partnered with the California University of Pennsylvania to give a live seminar on the future in Shale Gas and Appalachian Energy.

The event will take place on November…

If you search “fracking” on the internet, you’ll find one anecdotal story after another littering websites supposedly offering a “real” look at natural gas development. All of them, of course, are negative in tone.  As someone who was on the fence on this topic only a couple of years ago, I can attest to how difficult this can make it for someone searching for honest-to-goodness facts on the development process.  It can be downright exhausting.  The advice hammered into us over many years of…

Cris Pasto has been participating in a lively, but friendly email debate on natural gas versus other energy sources. Here’s how Cris responded to suggestions by his email correspondent that burning firewood and relying upon renewables are preferable to natural gas development.

Burning Wood in Your Home

Today, I got to thinking more about the idea of everyone burning firewood. Mind you, we burned firewood all of our lives until about year 2000 and I hope to never go back to it.…

Many oil and gas leases throughout Pennsylvania are on the verge of expiring due to the gas companies’ inability to “hold” the property under the lease terms.  Gas companies holding expiring leases are often approaching landowners and seeking an “extension” of the expiring Oil and Gas Lease.  These extensions typically range from six (6) months to two (2) years, but can be for much longer.

Landowners who receive offers to extend their existing Gas Lease should contact…