A new study raises questions about the model activist researchers use in their attempts to link fracking to health risks. A series of studies from Johns Hopkins University used a metric the researchers call “well activity” as a proxy for actually measuring exposure to air pollutants they claim are associated with oil and natural gas
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Susquehanna County landowners Edwin and Helen Mead have witnessed a renaissance as natural gas has helped them save their homestead and others prosper. Landowners Edwin and Helen Mead credit the natural gas industry for helping them keep their Bridgewater Township, Susquehanna County homestead and providing them enhanced opportunities.
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Tom Wolf’s latest severance tax proposal appears to be failing thanks his radical green friends who will not be satisfied with anything less than a ban. Can it be possible that the shale industry and anti-shale environmentalists (those who irrationally espouse the end of using all fossil fuels) can
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Toby Rice is not your typical corporate honcho. He tackles challenges in new and different ways. He’s truly leading EQT and aims to make money on $2 gas. For years MDN has observed that Cabot Oil & Gas is one of the few Marcellus/Utica drilling companies that can “spin
Read More...The seven most productive, unconventional shale plays and basins in the Lower 48 U.S. states are projected to set a natural gas production record from August to September, according to the Energy Information Administration August Drilling Productivity Report. more than half of the production increase will be driven by the Marcellus and Utica shale plays
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about the Shell Cracker Plant, Northeast Supply Enhancement Project, Southwestern Energy and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … The Northern Tier Industrial & Education Consortium (NTIEC) just gave students from four counties some real life experience in natural gas development. Students from four northern tier counties recently took part in the first Energy & Oilfield Career Summer Experience, learning about career opportunities in the natural gas
Read More...Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … The Dietrich Theater in Tunkhannock is taking on a whole new life; one of sustainability tied to that of the community as a whole with help from natural gas. The Wyoming County Cultural Center in Tunkhannock is much more than a movie theater. While the Dietrich
Read More...The National Energy Technology Laboratory is conducting tests of a Marcellus Shale well in West Virginia that could reveal ways to improve production efficiency and environmental performance in the region, according to Daily Energy Insider. The NETL took a 139-foot core sample from a new experimental well operated by the Marcellus shale Energy and Environmental
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Northern Access Pipeline developer NFG has received another denial of water quality certification from Andrew Cuomo’s DEC but the project will get built. Once again, the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC), a corrupt political tool in the hands of an autocratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, has issued a
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Dimock pigs to rigs lawsuit continues to move backward for the attorneys who brought it. Ray Kemble, their supposed client, claims ignorance. Whoa! “Curiouser and curiouser.” Ray Kemble, rough-cut hero, it often seems, of the fractivist movement everywhere but Susquehanna County, is now “basically placing all the
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Marcellus Shale Impact Fees (Act 13 funds) are being used to train emergency service providers to save lives in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Susquehanna County is using its Marcellus Shale Impact Fees to save lives. It’s investing some of the Act 13 money its received from gas drilling in
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, Hurricane Barry, Mississippi LNG exports and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … DRBC water dependence claims have ranged from 15 to 22 million people over the years but the real number was always much lower and the DRBC has admitted it. When the Delaware River Basin Commission was formed in 1961, the legislators creating it said this about dependence on
Read More...The buyer has been revealed in Range Resources’s $634 million sale of assets in the Appalachian Basin, according to Oil & Gas 360. Lime Rock Resources made the purchase last week. Lime Rock Resources, the E&P arm of private equity firm Lime Rock Partners, acquired a non-operated overriding royalty interest in 350,000 net surface acres
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