“Keep It In the Ground” activists apparently don’t want to see our European allies enjoy a safe and reliable supply of energy. Food & Water Watch Europe (FWWE) recently sent an open letter to the European Commission and U.S. Department of Energy requesting a halt...
More than three-quarters of Americans want to see critical energy infrastructure developed more quickly – a goal of President Trump’s recent executive orders – and just one in five voter supports the so-called Green New Deal, a new report found. A full 79 percent of...
A new wave of aggressive anti-oil and natural gas legislation is cropping up in several states, driven by national “Keep It In the Ground” (KIITG) groups that have failed numerous attempts at the federal level to restrict development. Emboldened by the introduction of the “Green...
Hundreds of oil and gas workers turned out in opposition to Colorado’s SB-181 earlier this week for a rally and marathon Senate Transportation and Energy Committee hearing on the sweeping oil and gas legislation. This bill that is being rushed through the Colorado legislature has...
More than two dozen Federal Energy Regulatory Commission-regulated pipeline projects are feeding $32.6 billion in investments across the Appalachian Basin, according to a new report from Energy In Depth. This infusion of capital will result in roughly 3,500 miles of new, repurposed or replaced pipelines...
The ongoing investigation into the actual cause of a recent pipeline incident in Ohio didn’t stop Rolling Stone from using it in the music mag’s latest attempt to frame the oil and natural gas industry as underregulated and unsafe. No one argues that accidents like...
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund continues to target communities in Pennsylvania and Ohio for so-called Rights of Nature initiatives aimed at banning fracking and other regulated development activities. Initiatives similar to those that have appeared in Youngstown and the Lake Erie region in Ohio,...
New England’s energy crunch has hit such crisis levels that the Energy Information Administration this week launched a dashboard to track it, further illustrating the dangerous and false narrative put forth by “Keep It In the Ground” activists that the region doesn’t need more pipeline...
“Keep it in the Ground” activists in Massachusetts are vowing to continue the obstruction of a newly approved natural gas compressor station south of Boston in Weymouth, despite a state-issued health impact assessment’s findings that the project poses no risk to human health. The station...
The shale revolution spurred incredible job growth in West Virginia in 2018, according to new data released by Work Force West Virginia. The state employed 22,514 oil and natural gas workers in the second quarter of 2018 – the highest direct oil and natural gas...
The United States continues to lead the world in attractiveness for oil and gas investment and its lead is increasing, particularly in the Gulf and Mountain states, an annual survey of senior global petroleum industry leaders found. The survey conducted by the Fraser Institute found...
The Department of the Interior (DOI) released a report this week that shows public land revenue increased by $400 million from Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 to FY 2017, a trend largely attributable to oil and natural gas development. The report’s press release notes: “In FY...