Energy in Depth

Undermines the states, stifles energy development in America, asks for things we might not even own … Energy In Depth counts down the ways Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the text of energy legislation that reports indicate could be brought up for debate on the floor as early as this week.  Unfortunately, although described as a “scaled-back” and  ...

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PA DEP confirms that well-water claims not related to “natural gas exploration and production activities”; Calls such claims “unfortunate” Drinking Water Claims Made Last Week … Drinking Water An Issue In Marcellus Shale Debate KDKA-TV Jul 23, 2010 Bill Eakin, of Avella, says his once-pristine well water is now contaminated and that it has killed his garden and made him and his wife Shirley ill. He  ...

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For 60 years, energy-producing states have used hydraulic fracturing – a tightly regulated energy stimulation technology – to access and increase domestic oil and natural gas production. Without this technology, much of America’s job-creating energy resources would simply be unreachable. And today, thanks to advancements in horizontal drilling techniques coupled with fracture stimulation, enormous amounts of homegrown energy are being  ...

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Fictionalizing the Facts: Fox's Flaming Faucets By Peter Wynne The Hancock (N.Y.) Herald July 14, 2010 If you watch Josh Fox in his movie "Gasland," listen to the narration he wrote and read some of the interviews he's giving to the media, you'll likely be convinced he was born among the green hills of Wayne County, Pa., and grew up in a little house  ...

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PA DEP confirms that well-water claims not related to “natural gas exploration and production activities”; Calls such claims “unfortunate” Drinking Water Claims Made Last Week … Drinking Water An Issue In Marcellus Shale Debate KDKA-TV Jul 23, 2010 Bill Eakin, of Avella, says his once-pristine well water is now contaminated and that it has killed his garden and made him and his wife Shirley ill. He  ...

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For 60 years, energy-producing states have used hydraulic fracturing – a tightly regulated energy stimulation technology – to access and increase domestic oil and natural gas production. Without this technology, much of America’s job-creating energy resources would simply be unreachable. And today, thanks to advancements in horizontal drilling techniques coupled with fracture stimulation, enormous amounts of homegrown energy are being  ...

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Fictionalizing the Facts: Fox's Flaming Faucets By Peter Wynne The Hancock (N.Y.) Herald July 14, 2010 If you watch Josh Fox in his movie "Gasland," listen to the narration he wrote and read some of the interviews he's giving to the media, you'll likely be convinced he was born among the green hills of Wayne County, Pa., and grew up in a little house  ...

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To say that Congressman Earl Pomeroy, a North Dakota Democrat, and Rick Perry, the Lone Star state’s conservative Republican governor, don’t see eye-to-eye on a host of issues would certainly be fair. But when it comes to creating jobs, delivering stable supplies of homegrown energy, the odd-couple, of sorts, couldn’t be more aligned. You see, hydraulic fracturing – which has been  ...

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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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Undermines the states, stifles energy development in America, asks for things we might not even own … Energy In Depth counts down the ways Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the text of energy legislation that reports indicate could be brought up for debate on the floor as early as this week.  Unfortunately, although described as a “scaled-back” and  ...

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AP story on “potentially harmful” chemicals used in fracturing process runs everywhere in Pennsylvania – two days later, we learn DEP sent AP the wrong list (!) Here’s how the argument against the decades-old process of fracturing a natural gas well tends to be structured: In one breath, an anti-gas activist will tell you the materials used in fracturing procedure are  ...

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Anti-gas shock-u-mentary makes nationwide debut on HBO – but latest version of the film no better or more accurate than previous cuts GasLand director Josh Fox is certainly a busy man these days, but apparently not too busy to review a 4,000-word rebuttal to his film organized and sent around two weeks ago by Energy In Depth. So what’d he think of  ...

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Josh Fox makes his mainstream debut with documentary targeting natural gas – but how much of it is actually true?  For an avant-garde filmmaker and stage director whose previous work has been recognized by the “Fringe Festival” of New York City, HBO’s decision to air the GasLand documentary nationwide later this month represents Josh Fox’s first real foray into the mainstream  ...

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