Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman relates his experience dealing with a solar sales pitch from a naive millennial who simply bought into “green energy” before thinking it through. About a week ago a friend told me he was visited at his home by a person who opened
Read More...An article published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “The Human Toll: Exposure and risks in the gas lands,” is stirring up quite the debate in Pennsylvania. Its release was followed by requests from environmental organizations urging Gov. Tom Wolf halt new permits for fracking until the state investigates the information included in the report. “The Human
Read More...Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia Garland Thompson explains what really happened with the Gibbstown LNG deal. It reveals New Jersey duplicity more so than it does DRBC double-dealing. Let’s think again about that DRBC unanimous vote supporting New Fortress Energy’s shipping pier for its truck-mounted LNG export plan. From this vantage, it’s more
Read More...Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC The folly of the unilateral energy disarmament being practiced on the West Coast and in New England shows the U.S. is being made less secure by fractivism. Two attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz have set the energy world, and the world at large, on edge. It
Read More...The West Virginia Supreme Court recently sided with Antero Resources Corp. in a case brought against the company by Harrison County landowners, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail. The court upheld a lower court ruling that threw out a collection of lawsuits that argued Antero’s operations in the Cherry Camp area had created a nuisance. Furthermore,
Read More...Rice Drilling LLC and Ascent Resources Utica LLC received a combined 11 new permits for horizontal wells in the Utica shale during the week ended June 8, according to the latest data from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Rice Drilling LLC was awarded six permits to drill in Belmont County. Ascent Resources Utica LLC
Read More...New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James’s case Martin Act case against ExxonMobil is still in pre-trial hearings, but Justice Barry Ostrager is already losing patience. On Monday, at an initial hearing to discuss dismissing five of ExxonMobil’s defenses and other pre-trial motions, Justice Ostrager pushed the AG’s office to whittle down its lengthy witness
Read More...“Keep It In the Ground” activist groups have added a self-proclaimed “sophisticated” effort to their misinformation campaign to stop oil and natural gas leasing on federal lands. The groups have bolstered their total war approach by filing formal protests to nearly every lease application across the country in hopes of overwhelming the Bureau of Land
Read More...The United States shattered the previous record for the largest single-year increase in oil and natural gas production in 2018, according to BP’s annual Statistical Review of World Energy. Last year proved to be a truly transformative one for American energy dominance: Although the United States holds less than 4 percent of the world’s oil
Read More...Unconventional wells, drilled deep into shale formations across the United States, continue to account for an increasing share of crude oil and natural gas production in the United States, according to the Energy Information Administration. From 2004 to 2018, production from horizontal wells jumped from 15% to 96% of U.S. crude oil production in tight
Read More...Construction on the Risberg Line has finally reached Ohio from its starting point at the end of another pipeline in Meadville, Pennsylvania, according to the Ashtabula Star Beacon. As the $86 million pipeline gets closer to its end-point in North Kingsville, pipe segments have been lined up on an area of clear ground south of
Read More...As the U.S. trade war escalates with multiple countries, the battle is leaving the supply chain with little choice as impacts from the tariffs grow. × Now nearly a year since the Trade War first began, companies are at a point they must either scale back their reliance on global business, raise end prices, or
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BOLIVAR, Ohio & WEIRTON, W. Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NAI Ohio River Corridor has expanded their team and commercial real estate services in eastern Ohio and West Virginia. “Since locating our office to Tuscarawas County and our continued focus on the emerging petrochemical, energy, plastics and derivatives industries, we realize the need for growth and restructuring to better
Read More...... … … Zero emissions claims are popular these days but they seldom pan out, as is the case with electric vehicles in Germany. CNG vehicles make a lot more sense. A study by the IFO think tank in Munich found that electric vehicles in Germany emit 11 percent to 28 percent more carbon dioxide than their diesel counterparts.
Read More...Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Pipeline opponents are some of the most irrational people. They’ve talked some agencies into going well beyond letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. When it comes to pipeline opponents, all too often it’s not a case of “letting the perfect crowd
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