Irrational Fear of Fracking Has Deprived Upstate New Yorkers of A Future

Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. ….   [Editor’s Note: Corrupt Andrew Cuomo exploited fear of fracking to advance his own future while stealing that of his Southern Tier constituents.] I remember well the power of fear as a child and it’s influence on my upbringing, Perhaps some of you reading this

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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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An Information Standards and Fact-Checking Advisory Board Nightmare

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Free speech is under furious assault by a merging of media and government establishing information standards for all of us. I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed I was living in the year 2025 and green political correctness had won the day. Everyone was “woke,” as they

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Shale Gas News – February 27, 2021

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about Putin’s pipeline, carbon tax, natural gas storage and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport

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Delaware River Basin Commission permanently bans fracking

The Delaware River Basin Commission permanently banned hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River Basin on Feb. 25, citing the importance of protecting public health and a water supply that more than 13 million people in four states rely on, according to Farm and Dairy. The commission’s move will ban high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the 13,539 square-mile

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DRBC Fracking Ban A Showcase for Corruption That Pervades Politics

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … You may imagine I’m putting lipstick on a pig but, mark my words, the DRBC ban is a fatal misstep by this gang of public agency thieves. Yesterday, I pointed out why the DRBC fracking ban was a fatal misstep for the agency. It brought to a culmination

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DRBC Ban A Fatal Misstep That Could Make Landowners Rich!

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … You may imagine I’m putting lipstick on a pig but, mark my words, the DRBC ban is a fatal misstep by this gang of public agency thieves. Well, after a decade of pretending they weren’t stealing the gas rights of Upper Delaware landowners, the Commissioners of the Delaware

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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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Shale Gas News – February 20, 2021

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about the DRBC Frack Ban, RGGI, a Seneca Rig and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the

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Gas Industry Has A Great Story to Retell and It Must Be Retold Often!

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … The natural gas industry has accomplished so very much, delivering economic and environmental benefits everywhere, but it must be retold. We talk a lot about how to keep the gas industry moving forward in a COVID economy, including the importance of legislation aimed at attracting new businesses to

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Tom Wolf’s Severance Tax Obsession Threatens PA Economy

Alexander StevensPolicy AnalystInstitute for Energy Research …. … … [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf is a spoiled trust-funder obsessed with the fact he can’t just dictate a severance tax be imposed on Pennsylvanians at his will.] Over the past week, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has once again promoted the idea of levying a severance tax on the natural

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Shale Gas News – February 6, 2021

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about emissions, pipeline projects, lower-carbon future and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport area on

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Russian Oligarchs Must Be Cheering Cuomo and Biden Energy Policies

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … Kevin Mooney cites Governor Cuorruptocrat as the model for anti-fracking policies apparently designed to appease Russian oligarchs. Kevin Mooney is out with another one of those pieces where he exposes the insanity of so many fractivists and the political left that has co-opted their cause. Or, is it just

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