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Encino Signs 2nd Lease with Cambridge, OH City School

We spotted news that the Cambridge City School District (in Guernsey County, Ohio) has signed a second lease with Encino Energy (EAP Ohio LLC) to allow shale drilling under 4.8 acres. The first lease (which we missed) was signed in February of this year, allowing Encino to drill under 182 acres. The land is located…

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Diversified Saves Big Money Retiring Its Own Older Wells

In late 2021, Diversified Energy (formerly Diversified Gas & Oil) announced it had purchased Next LVL Energy, a well-plugging company that concentrates on plugging mainly old conventional oil and gas wells in Appalachia (see Diversified Energy Buys Well-Plugging Co. Next LVL Energy). Next LVL was headquartered in the Pittsburgh region. In early 2023, Diversified moved…

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Georgia Natural Gas Claims Customers Blocked 500 Million Lbs of CO2

According to an announcement from Georgia Natural Gas (GNG), the utility company’s “Greener Life” program, which helps customers make their natural gas usage carbon neutral, has reached a new milestone of 500 million pounds of carbon emissions offset from the atmosphere. That amount is equivalent to taking over 50,000 cars off the road for a…

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Leftists Argue for Ban on AI Because It Uses Too Much Electricity

For a leftist, the glass is always half empty, and the pie is always a fixed size. Conservatives, on the other hand, believe in human ingenuity and the American spirit of bigger and better and can-do and let’s get it done. It’s a stark contrast. Here’s the perfect example. Big pipeline companies and others are…

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Antis Launch Satellite to Detect CO2 & Methane Emissions

Tanager-1 On Friday, the Tanager-1 methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) sniffing satellite launched from California. Tanager-1 can detect major emitters of CO2 and methane. It was created by a coalition involving Carbon Mapper, Planet Labs, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with funding from groups such as Mike Bloomberg and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. Yeah,…

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Bucks County Climate Suit Bucked Transparency Laws, Motion to Dismiss Filed

Bucks County violated Pennsylvania’s public records law by filing a climate lawsuit without properly notifying the public, without any public comment period, and without a traceable public record, energy companies argued earlier this month in a Motion to Dismiss the case.  Although elected officials often discuss litigation matters in closed special sessions, the companies’ August

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APA Executive: After Recent Divestitures, ‘More to Come’

At the EnerCom Denver conference, an APA Corp. executive didn’t address reports that APA was shopping up to $1 billion in Permian Basin assets, but he said the company is looking to shed $2 billion in term loans associated with its purchase of Callon Petroleum. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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