Energy in Depth

Meanwhile, PA DEP official “dispels myths” about HF, says fluids “can be found on the department's website” “Hydraulic fracturing, the target of Fox's documentary, has been used for more than 60 years without any reported cases of groundwater contamination” Top PA environmental official “dispelled myths that the DEP does not know what additives a company uses in the hydraulic fracturing”; “companies must  ...

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Hope, Arkansas is the hometown of William Jefferson Clinton, our nation’s 42nd president. And while Little Rock may be the state’s capital, and largest city, the Natural State’s former governor Mike Huckabee also hails from the southwestern town of Hope. But because of the tightly-regulated 60-year old energy stimulation technology called hydraulic fracturing – which has been safely used to enhance  ...

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A couple months now removed from the splashy premiere of Josh Fox’s GasLand on HBO, the network appears to be once again ramping up its PR and booking machine associated with selling the on-demand version of the film – with Fox traveling all across the country to hold additional screenings and snapping up follow-up media interviews wherever he goes. So as  ...

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The positive and overwhelming economic and energy security benefits enabled by hydraulic fracturing – a tightly regulated 60-year old energy stimulation technology – continue to be realized across the nation. These benefits – affordable supplies of reliable homegrown energy and thousands of good-paying jobs – are a reality in major energy-producing states, particularly North Dakota and Texas. And while New York  ...

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Meanwhile, PA DEP official “dispels myths” about HF, says fluids “can be found on the department's website” “Hydraulic fracturing, the target of Fox's documentary, has been used for more than 60 years without any reported cases of groundwater contamination” Top PA environmental official “dispelled myths that the DEP does not know what additives a company uses in the hydraulic fracturing”; “companies must  ...

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Hope, Arkansas is the hometown of William Jefferson Clinton, our nation’s 42nd president. And while Little Rock may be the state’s capital, and largest city, the Natural State’s former governor Mike Huckabee also hails from the southwestern town of Hope. But because of the tightly-regulated 60-year old energy stimulation technology called hydraulic fracturing – which has been safely used to enhance  ...

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A couple months now removed from the splashy premiere of Josh Fox’s GasLand on HBO, the network appears to be once again ramping up its PR and booking machine associated with selling the on-demand version of the film – with Fox traveling all across the country to hold additional screenings and snapping up follow-up media interviews wherever he goes. So as  ...

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The positive and overwhelming economic and energy security benefits enabled by hydraulic fracturing – a tightly regulated 60-year old energy stimulation technology – continue to be realized across the nation. These benefits – affordable supplies of reliable homegrown energy and thousands of good-paying jobs – are a reality in major energy-producing states, particularly North Dakota and Texas. And while New York  ...

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EID points to PA as linchpin of emerging revolution in shale gas exploration across America WASHINGTON – The responsible development of the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania, a phenomenon made possible thanks to the common and continued use of hydraulic fracturing technology, has the potential to add an additional 212,000 new jobs to the state’s employment rolls by 2020, on top of  ...

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EID director sends letter to every member of the energy panel detailing the serious consequences of amendment WASHINGTON – The bill might known as the “Assistance, Quality and Affordability Act,” but according to reports on Capitol Hill, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s markup of the legislation on Wednesday may include a vote on an unrelated amendment targeting a key technology used  ...

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WASHINGTON – America’s shale gas resource base is poised to increase 88 percent by the year 2035 assuming key technologies such as hydraulic fracturing remain intact and available to U.S. energy producers. That’s the conclusion released this week by the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA) in Washington. In its Annual Energy Outlook 2010, EIA projects that over the next 25 years, natural  ...

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EID: “We are hopeful and it is our expectation that this study – if based on objective, scientific analysis – will serve as an opportunity to highlight the host of steps taken at every wellsite that make certain groundwater is properly protected” WASHINGTON – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will begin a new, comprehensive study on hydraulic fracturing, the  ...

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State Dept. forum seeks to export promise and potential of shale gas to markets around the world – but will Administration apply same lessons, encouragement here at home? Col. Edwin Drake is widely credited with developing the world’s first commercial oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859. But here’s something you might not have known about the guy: He wasn’t actually  ...

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Or why the foliation perpendicular to stress in the context of subsurface ductile deformation matters in the debate over shale and hydraulic fracturing  We’ve spent some time over the past couple months taking a critical look at some of the key assertions made in the HBO documentary GasLand, putting forth in that time two separate rebuttal documents that we believe address  ...

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Budget, air conditioning (?) play role in EPA decision to move Binghamton HF forum to Syracuse – but tight logistics force agency to postpone event ‘til next month Two county lines and a 73-mile stretch of Interstate 81 are all that separate Binghamton from Syracuse, N.Y. But judging by the reaction lodged by anti-Marcellus activists upon hearing news of EPA’s  ...

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Sen. Casey asks Colo. congresswoman to help him make the case for jobs-killing anti-HF bill in Philadelphia paper – EID takes a closer look U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) represents the only congressional district in Colorado where hydraulic fracturing technology is not currently used; Philadelphia represents the only major city in Pennsylvania where the geology suggests it’s likely the technology  ...

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