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ExxonMobil and Shell Eyeing North American LNG Export Deals
Yesterday, LNG World News reported that ExxonMobil Vice President Andrew Swiger announced, at a conference hosted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, that it was actively seeking LNG (liquefied natural...
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The Farce Of The "Golden Age Of Gas"
Oil and gas industry insiders revealed earlier this year the high probability that we're headed into a shale gas bubble. But that's not what the industry's CEOs and PR departments want you to hear.“The...
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Exposed: Pennsylvania Act 13 Overturned by Commonwealth Court, Originally an...
On July 26, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court** ruled PA Act 13 unconstitutional.*** The bill would have stripped away local zoning laws, eliminated the legal concept of a Home Rule Charter, limited...
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Regulatory Non-Enforcement by Design: Earthworks Shows How the Game is Played
Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project published a scathing 124-page report this week, “Breaking All the Rules: the Crisis in Oil & Gas Regulatory Enforcement.”The content of the report is...
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Fracking Your Future: Shale Gas Industry Targets College Campuses, K-12 Schools
In Pennsylvania - a state that sits in the heart of the Marcellus Shale basin - the concept of “frackademia” and “frackademics” has taken on an entirely new meaning.On Sept. 27, the PA House of...
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Shale Gas Bubble Bursting: Report Debunks "100 Years" Claim for Domestic...
Food and Water Watch (FWW) released a report today titled “U.S. Energy Security: Why Fracking for Oil and Natural Gas Is a False Solution.” It shows, contrary to industry claims, there aren't 100 years...
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Shale Gas Bubble About to Burst: Art Berman, Bill Powers
Food and Water Watch recently demonstrated that the dominant narrative, “100 years” of unconventional oil and gas in the United States, is false. At most, some 50 years of this dirty energy resource...
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Shale Gas Uncertainty: How an Industry Talking Point Misses the Mark
When oil and gas executives gathered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to discuss the state of the industry shortly after Obama won re-election, they raised a recurring complaint.“We now face four more years...
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New "Frackademia" Report Co-Written by "Converted Climate Skeptic" Richard...
The conservative UK-based Centre for Policy Studies recently published a study on the climate change impacts of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for shale gas. The skinny: it's yet another case study...
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Dollarocracy: U.S. Congressmen Refuse to Address Keystone XL Southern Half...
What's the U.S. congressional response to the safety issues with the 485-mile southern half of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline raised by Public Citizen's Texas office? Mostly what Simon &...
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Earthquakes Rattle Texas Towns in the Barnett Shale
Daniel Hogan thought he heard a sonic boom when a magnitude 3.6 earthquake hit Azle, Texas, last November. His home sustained damage — broken windows, cracked walls, damaged plumbing and foundation —...
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Breaking: $3 Million Jury Verdict in Texas Fracking Nuisance Case
A jury in Dallas, TX today awarded $2.925 million to plaintiffs Bob and Lisa Parr, who sued Barnett shale fracking company Aruba Petroleum Inc. for intentionally causing a nuisance on the Parr's...
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Barnett Shale Fracking Victims Win First Round in Court Battle with Gas Industry
Legal tremors are reverberating in the Barnett Shale region in Texas after yesterday's $2.925 million dollar verdict in favor of the plaintiffs Bob and Lisa Parr, who sued Aruba Petroleum for damages...
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Supporters of Fracking Ban Face New Wave of McCarthyism in Denton, Texas
In Denton, Texas, a college town north of Dallas that sits atop the Barnett Shale formation, the fight over a referendum banning fracking within city limits is in the final stretch.The local ballot...
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Drilling Deeper: New Report Casts Doubt on Fracking Production Numbers
Post Carbon Institute has published a report and multiple related resources calling into question the production statistics touted by promoters of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). By calculating the...
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First Texas City to Ban Fracking Cites "Public Nuisance" in Lawsuit Response
Attorneys representing Denton, Texas, the first city to ban hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in state history, have issued rebuttals to the two lawsuits filed against Denton the day after the fracking...
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Environmental Groups File Motion to Intervene in Defense of Denton Fracking Ban
Just days after attorneys representing Denton, Texas submitted their initial responses to two legal complaints filed against Denton — the first Texas city ever to ban hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”)...
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Texas Town at Center of Latest Earthquake Swarm Questions Fracking Impact
January has been a shaky month for Irving, Texas. Twelve earthquakes rattled the city during a 48-hour period at the end of the first week of the new year.“It was very scary. I was at my job on the 4th...
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Fracking Industry Showdown Preceding Stricter Fugitive Emissions Ordinances...
Sharon Wilson, Earthworks’ Gulf Regional Organizer, described FLIR camera footage she shot of a fracking industry site on January 29 in Mansfield, Texas, as ‘the mother lode of all emissions.”The issue...
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Texas Family's Water Well Explodes, Burns 4-Year Old, Father and Grandfather...
A family in Texas, including a four-year old, her parents and her grandfather, were severely burned when their water well ignited into a massive fireball after methane from nearby fracked wells...
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