“We’ve deliberated, we’ve considered the comments, we have looked at what’s gone on in other states…And at the end of this stage of the deliberations, we’ve concluded that high-volume hydrofracking can be undertaken safely, along with strong and aggressive regulations.” – New York DEC Commissioner, Joe...
While it was the Beatles that popularized and brought into the mainstream the idea of “a revolution”, there’s a historic revolution taking place today. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed today — under the headline “America Needs the Shale Revolution” — energy expert Robert Bryce...
What’s worse than a lame-duck vote on a bill to impede Marcellus development in New York? A lame-duck vote in the middle of the night. It turns out your mother was right all along: Nothing good ever happens after midnight. Of course, when it comes...
CNN uses Binghamton HF hearings as launch point for day-long primal scream against shale gas – but how much of it actually squares up with the facts?
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...
The Marcellus Shale – and the decades worth of clean-burning natural gas supplies that it holds – are reviving sluggish regions of Pennsylvania’s economy and helping to deliver thousands of dollars to rural landowners at a time when genuine economic stimulus is most needed. Under...