Property Rights Are Our Mission at the UDRBC! Help Us!

Ned LangPresident, Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens …. ….  [Editor’s Note: Ned Lang, President of Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens, appeals for help in fighting for our natural gas and property rights!] The UDRBC was formed to advocate for the property rights of landowners across the Upper Delaware River region.  The actions of the Delaware

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Delaware Riverkeeper Given Right to Intervene in DRBC Lawsuit by RINO Judge

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: The Delaware Riverkeeper ran to a RINO judge to secure the right to intervene in a DRBC lawsuit. He rolled over and granted it.] Apparently, the staff who run the day-to-day business of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) is incompetent and can’t defend itself. Every time

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – February 27, 2021

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. The More You Get, the More Costly It Gets! Some more great insights on Texas: On Thursday, Texas Public Policy Foundation

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DRBC….a Pecksniffian Party of Phony Pontificating Plunderers

Bob NolanWayne County, Pennsylvania, Landowner …. Our friend Bob Nolan uses Dickens and Blazing Saddles to illustrate what a bunch of phonies the DRBC amounts to when it comes to us. Ironic how relevant Charles Dickens’ novel “Martin Chuzzlewit” remains in today’s world.“Seth Pecksniff, a character with a holier-than-thou attitude in Charles Dickens’s 1844 novel

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Illinois Landowners Could Offer DRBC A Lesson on Regulatory Takings

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Illinois landowners have gotten some attention with their Petition to the Supreme Court for Certiorari and the DRBC should be worried. The DRBC has spent a decade frustrating the efforts of landowners in the basin to develop their natural gas resources. It has done so with an illegal

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DRBC to Finally Decide on Fracking Ban?

Nearly three and a half years: That’s how long the Delaware River Basin Commission has been sitting on regulations it opened for public comment that could decide the fate of oil and natural gas development within the region. It appears this week the commission will finally (maybe) answer the question: Can shale development occur in

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – February 20, 2021

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Some Folks Just Aren’t Trustworthy Joe Manchin, the Democrat Senator from West Virginia who wants the trades to suppose he is

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The Seven Elements of Our Odious American Oligarchy

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … We are now living under an odious American oligarchy, the seven elements of which are rapidly being revealed to anyone paying attention. The fracking wars and the climate debate, combined with big tech machinations, politics and a corrupt Wall Street, have, over the last decade or so, at first

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Damascus Township and PA Senate Republicans Sue DRBC

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Another lawsuit, on behalf of Damascus Township, Senators Lisa Baker and Gene Yaw and PA Senate Republicans has been filed against the DRBC! Damascus Township, my hometown, together with Pennsylvania State Senators Lisa Baker and Gene Yaw and the Pennsylvania State Senate Republican Caucus has filed a great

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Phil Murphy Proves Just How Much of An Unprincipled Pander Bear He Is

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Phil Murphy, an obviously confused panderbear, is trying to wiggle out of his DRBC vote on Gibbstown with a patently silly excuse.] The five voting members of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) met in early December and voted 4-0 (one abstention) to approve a 1,300-foot-long pier

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – December 19, 2020

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. California Wealthy Elites Imposing High Electricity Prices on the Poor Great insights from Energy In Depth on California’s energy problems; they

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DRBC Lawsuit Update: Still Waiting on the Federal Court

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The DRBC lawsuit proceeds and the following offers a quick update and a plea to support the fight for all our mineral rights. A number of you have asked for an update on the status of the DRBC lawsuit brought by the Wayne Land and Mineral Group, LLC.

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UDRBC Candidate Night: Bognet Exposes Canadian Rich Kid Cartwright

Upper DelawareRiver Basin Citizens …. ….  The UDRBC held another very successful candidate night last week and Jim Bognet exposed Cong. Cartwright as a rich Canadian interloper. The Beach Lake Fire Hall was the location of a Meet the Candidates evening hosted by the Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens (UDRBC) on October 20, 2020. The

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Rep. Wendy Ullman, PovertyKeeper Ally, Does More Political Theater

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  We told you Rep. Wendy Ullman was only into doing political theater as a legislator but now she’s proven it by her comment to Tom Wolf. Senator Lisa Baker and Rep. Jonathan Fritz have been long pursuing legislation that would treat any Delaware River Basin Commission fracking as

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