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Natural Gas ’
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Today, it is widely recognized that domestic shale/tight gas and hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) represent a key resource and technology to the future energy supply and economy of the United States. What does foreign shal...
Posted Monday, July 19th, 2010 at 10:50 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Natural Gas
The Wall Street Journal reported today that Range Resources Corporation (Range), one of a large number of independent companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale, would begin submitting lists of all the chemicals and additives, and ...
Posted Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 at 6:15 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Natural Gas
This Thursday, Democrats discussed their energy strategy in a closed door caucus meeting.
After the meeting, E&E Daily quotes Majority Leader Reid as he states his four main goals for an energy bill: "Whatever form it takes...
Posted Friday, June 25th, 2010 at 9:57 am | Filed in: Legislation, Natural Gas, Oil Dependence
Policy makers and stakeholders need to be paying attention to the current congressional debate on a technique used to extract natural gas from tight shale formations. As the country focuses on the disaster in the Gulf, key legis...
Posted Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 7:11 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Natural Gas
Sheila McNulty and Ed Crooks have a good piece in this morning's FT about recent departures from the strange-bedfellow coalition that has been the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, or USCAP.
(http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe85190a-1...
Posted Thursday, February 18th, 2010 at 7:21 am | Filed in: Environment, Natural Gas, Oil Prices
This morning's NYT runs a piece entitled Interior Chief Vows Scrutiny of Oil and Gas Leases (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/business/energy-environment/07lease.html?ref=energy-environment) that deserves attention from those wh...
Posted Thursday, January 7th, 2010 at 8:36 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Natural Gas, Oil Dependence
This morning's WaPo reports (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/29/AR2009122902874.html?hpid=sec-business) on a Christmas Eve-eve letter that Virginia Governor-elect Bob McDonnell sent to U.S. Interior S...
Posted Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at 5:57 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Natural Gas, Oil Dependence
This week, ExxonMobil followed the trail of other oil majors that have invested in independent U.S. natural gas producers, including BP, StatoilHydro and Eni, by beginning the acquisition process for XTO Energy. The $41 billion ...
Posted Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 at 10:41 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Natural Gas
Natural gas is being touted by some at Copenhagen as a relatively low-carbon “bridge” fuel, a life-line to take us through the next few decades until we can depend entirely on renewable and nuclear energy. Proponents, which in...
Posted Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at 9:13 am | Filed in: Electricity, Environment, Natural Gas, Renewables, Transportation
