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Natural Gas ’
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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
Today the NYT's editors not suprisingly praise Chesapeake's decision not to exercise rights under a lease to produce natural gas within the area containing New York City's watershed (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/opinion/29t...
Posted Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 6:08 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Natural Gas
These are tough times for the U.S. natural gas industry. Prices are at lows not seen since early 2002. With a month to go before the start of the winter heating season, underground storage is at a record level of 3.6 trillion cubi...
Posted Monday, October 5th, 2009 at 9:41 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Natural Gas
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