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Mitt Romney believes that is a decision for Michiganders. Rather than pursue a one-size-fits-all federal regulatory approach to energy development as…

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Obama's position is…

Uni Blake explains the problems with anecdotal evidence used by natural gas opponents. While the general public may find anecdotal evidence highly compelling, most scientists are suspicious of data that rests on anecdotes. The idea research can be based solely on pooling more than one anecdote to create data is problematic – more than one anecdote is just more anecdote(s), not data. The study released recently by Earthworks’ Oil and Gas Accountability Project, “Gas Patch Roulette” is an…

Mark Ruffalo is practicing “energy independence” by installing solar panels at one of his houses in New York using taxpayer money. According to Ruffalo, the $9,003.08 needed from him for the project was no big deal. Well, probably not given the $15,000 plus contribution from taxpayers to subsidize an uneconomical project.

A recent interview highlighted how Mark Ruffalo recently installed $20,000 to $25,000 worth of solar panels in his backyard to harvest the sun’s energy and soothe…

The passing of the new impact fee means a lot of communities, even those outside of the producible Marcellus Shale, will see tremendous payouts. But what about those who are in the Marcellus and unable to develop because of the Delaware River Basin Commission? Robert Nolan takes an in-depth look at how the numbers add up across the state. Over 400 years ago, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Marcellus uttered a similar, famous quote with reference to the state of Denmark (“Something is rotten in…

A landowner leasing multiple parcels to an Oil and Gas Company should generally seek to lease the multiple parcels on separate Oil and Gas Leases.  When multiple parcels are listed on the same Oil and Gas Lease the Gas Company can typically “hold” all of the parcels under lease by merely meeting the minimum Lease requirement(s) to “extend” the gas lease on any one of the individually identified Leased parcels.



Oil and Gas Leases typically “describe” the “Leasehold”,…

About one thousand people spent the day in Albany expressing their support of natural gas outside Governor Cuomo’s office through signs and speeches on Monday. The rally was a great success with the message to, “Put New Yorker’s back to work, let’s start permitting natural gas,” at the forefront.

Approximately 1,000 people traveled up to Albany, New York to show their support for natural gas in New York on Monday. The group assembled, displayed signs and spoke out to show Governor…

We laid the foundations for analyzing the report “The Costs of Fracking” in Part I of this series. Now we’ll delve further into this 49-page paper from a group caught twice using fabricated imagery to stimulate a negative response against natural gas development.

This report is riddled with misleading information and assumptions. One of the most widely inappropriate parts of this study was the authors took information from across the country and tried to generically apply every…

Che Guevara shirts, indoctrinated kids, calls to ration energy, lies, evasions, and even a low blow at Andrew Breitbart.

FrackNation saw and heard it all when we interviewed anti-fracking protesters last month: http://bit.ly/GFDhypocrisy…

Could someone please give contact information for a Chevron lease agent who is actively leasing in Clarion County?  I have some property which I would like to lease to Chevron.  Thanks.

The Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, an organization with the same New York City address as other natural gas opponents in that state, has made a point of repeatedly attacking residents who actually have to make a living in the Upper Delaware valley. Curt Coccodrilli takes on the organization and one of the group’s leaders for their elitist attitude.

Early last month, Senator Pat Toomey visited Wayne County to meet with various landowners and local officials about the subject of…

Bridget Fink

Owner, Briggy Bandz

The natural gas boom from the…

Matt Damon is coming out with another anti-gas movie called Promised Land. Vic Furman got a chance to see the trailer on the big screen and was not impressed by what turned out to be a piece of pitiful propaganda full of nonsense, disrespectful to rural people and financed by Middle East interests.

This past week I went to the movie theater on Upper Front Street in Binghamton. I bought some popcorn and a Diet Coke in preparation to see a movie.

The previews played, including…

Two CNG stations coming to Clarion County PA

CLARION, PA (by Tom DiStefano, The Clarion News)

The idea has been around for years, but without stations open to the public, only a few vehicles – usually in large company or government fleets – used natural gas as a fuel.…

Cris Pasto reflects on truth versus politics in the playing out of the natural gas saga in New York State. He notes everything the other side says it wants is readily available from natural gas, yet they refuse to see it, preferring an alternative reality and narrative with nothing to back it up.

I started feeling a bit guilty for not addressing the latest stall tactic in NY with a push for a health impact review sooner. It’s just that I’ve been getting so irritated with the anti-gas…

The Town of Homer had a public hearing last week to discuss enacting a moratorium for this Cortland County community, incredible as that may seem after the stunning overturn of the Binghamton version by the Broome County Supreme Court.

There was a public hearing late last week in the Town of Homer, Cortland County, New York, where the town board is considering (not necessarily supporting) a natural gas moratorium apparently being pushed by a local group of opponents, despite what…

The Town of Highland enacted a “ban on heavy industrial uses associated with natural gas extraction” as Local Law No. 3 of 2012 in an act of political correctness. They are now being sued by an aggrieved landowner. Jim Willis posted the following story on his popular Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) site this morning:

MDN is not used to breaking the news, but that’s what we’ll do today. The Town of Highland, located in Sullivan County, NY, is about to be sued by the Highland Field &…

EID takes a closer look at e-mails released by the EPA in association with a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Scranton Times Tribune. The correspondence shows a federal agency arriving at one conclusion based on data, but taken down another road due to other factors, ignoring real pollution in Darby, Pennsylvania, the process.

A recent Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Scranton Times-Tribune yielded more than 3,000 emails from the U.S. Environmental…