On Tuesday, 180 lawmakers will converge on the Statehouse after a seven month hiatus for Round 2 of the 2011-2012 biennium. Judging from interviews with committee chairs, the upcoming session will be fast and furious. Lawmakers have an impressive array of complicated issues to address in four short ...
With the rapid explosion of natural gas extraction through fracking, little research has been done to understand the environmental and geological consequences of the practice. We simply do not know a lot about what it does. The chemicals used the process may be polluting ground water, gas released i ...
After viewing the documentary GASLAND, I was mortified and ashamed of what our species is capable of. If you think this is a free country… THINK AGAIN! The Bush/Cheney administration did everything in their power to take away as many freedoms as possible so doors could be opened to allow THE CORPORA ...
There is a tremendous amount of activism around fracking. Click for photo credit. The other night, I was having dinner with some new friends in New York and one of them asked me my opinion about Fracking. Fracking is the cracking of rock deep underground by pumping highly pressurized fluids into the ...
I watched this today, and I thought of two things. First, what is the value of natural gas? Second, what is the value of the land? We can get into all of the economic bean counting that compares the total economic value of natural gas and its services. Then we can compare them to the total revenue b ...
While using waste methane from landfills or agricultural operations to produce electricity is becoming more common, EnergyNOW reports that Waste Management is going a step further and using the gas to power some of its garbage trucks in California.
Taking advantage of low barriers to entry and even lower natural gas prices, two large foreign-owned oil and gas companies announced plans to invest billions of dollars to develop shale resources in the United States. Sinopec, China's second-largest oil company inked a $2.5 billion deal with Oklahom ...
I don’t know how many parts there’s going to be (I think somewhere near 3-4) but I actually get close to the furnace. Me and my grandpa went outside to look at the condensing unit because he said the fan grille was square, and we argued as I said it was octagon. I’m right but he said it was flat in ...
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