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Drilling industry executive admits that oversupply, not regulations, responsible for decreased drilling
The drilling industry claims, over and over, that rules that better protect landowners, public health and the environment reduce the industry's willingness to drill.
It's a canard, of course.
Tagged with: regulation, colorado, drilling, encana, coga, boom-bust
Something stinks... the drilling industry's attitude towards reasonable oversight.
What do the recent Pennsylvania and Colorado examples of industry's attempt to suborn reasonable state drilling oversight demonstrate?
The need for federal regulation of drilling/fracking.
Tagged with: fracking, hydraulic fracturing, regulation, pennsylvania, colorado, frac act, denver post
What's the big fracking deal? Toxic spills.
While the natural gas industry maintains that stronger regulations aren't needed, its track record continues to prove otherwise.
On Tuesday, the Wayne Independent reported that three "substantial" toxic spills by a fracker have occurred in less than one week in Dimock Township, Pennsylvania.
Tagged with: fracking, hydraulic fracturing, pennsylvania, dimock, cabot
Another violation of trust. Two PA fracking spills of who knows what.
More proof that the FRAC Act is, contrary to industry claims, quite necessary.
Tagged with: fracking, frac act, cabot, pa
Can we trust the frackers to set the limits? 160 organizations say "NO".
Yesterday, the House Natural Resources Committee held the second of two hearings on Chairman Nick Rahall's bill H.R. 3534, the "Consolidated Land, Energy and Aquatic Resources Act", which contains a number of modest reforms to the federal government's oil and gas programs.
The oil and gas industry, all too predictably, can be expected to fire back that any reform directed at their business is unnecessary, prohibitively costly to this multi-billion dollar industry, and could severely limit our nation's gas supplies.
Tagged with: fracking, hydraulic fracturing, frac act
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