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		<title>Is NYS State Senator Tom Libous Reversing Course on Drilling?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are the political winds shifting in New York State among the politicians that have been staunch supporters of gas drilling? There’s perhaps no stronger supporter among elected politicians in Albany than Tom Libous, a powerful state senator from Binghamton. Sen. Libous is the deputy majority leader of the NYS Senate and a member of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PEC&#8217;s Lukewarm Statement of Support for New PA Drilling Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mostly anti-drilling organization Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) issued an interesting statement yesterday, commenting on new Marcellus drilling legislation that will likely be passed and signed into law this week in PA. Here is the entire press release: The following is a statement from Paul M. King, president of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council: The enemy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Fracking Advisory Panel Work Grinds to Halt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the process to enact new drilling regulations in New York State, Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens appointed a Hydraulic Fracturing Advisory Panel last July to make recommendations to the DEC on how to oversee, monitor and enforce new shale drilling regulations in the state (see this MDN story for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Maryland Bill Would Ban Imports of Fracking Wastewater</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the support of anti-drilling group Food &#38; Water Watch, Maryland House of Delegates member Shane Robinson (representing the DC suburb of Montgomery County) has introduced a bill into the Maryland legislature that would ban importing fracking wastewater for treatment in the state. House Bill 296, sponsored by Delegate Shane Robinson, only bans importing wastewater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Takes Credit for Shale Gas Drilling in Election Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Wall Street Journal op-ed earlier this week (We Don&#8217;t Need More Foreign Oil and Gas), Obama supporters and long-time Democrat flacks John Podesta and Tom Steyer tried to make the argument that we don’t need Canada’s oil (and natural gas) because we now have enough of our own, thank you very much. Apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Speech Gives NYers Hope that Fracking Will Soon Begin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, in which he openly supports drilling for natural gas and the “safe” use of hydraulic fracturing, has given a glimmer of hope to landowners in New York State that perhaps the President’s support for fracking will finally end the moratorium on drilling in New York. President Barack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama State of the Union: Safe Fracking will Create 600K Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address to Congress. Energy and natural gas played a big role in the speech. In particular, Obama acknowledges the jobs-generating power of natural gas drilling, saying it can generate 600,000 jobs by the end of this decade. He also mandated a requirement that gas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expert Says Binghamton Fracking Ban is &#8220;Legally Dubious&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Alt, a Fellow in Legal and International Affairs at The John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University (Ohio) has written an op-ed article in the Binghamton Press &#38; Sun-Bulletin on the topic of “legally dubious” moratoriums like the one recently passed by the City of Binghamton. Given that according to forthcoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five States Require Drillers to Use FracFocus.org Registry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FracFocus.org, the national hydraulic fracturing chemical registry where the public can look up information about the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing on a well-by-well basis, is co-sponsoring a “Let’s Talk About It” meeting in Williamsport, PA this Wednesday (see this page for more details). The meeting runs from 5-7:30 pm and will provide details on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Landowner Coalitions Push Back Against Home Rule Bill</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/ny-landowner-coalitions-push-back-against-home-rule-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/ny-landowner-coalitions-push-back-against-home-rule-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fight to allow safe natural gas drilling to commence in New York State is being fought on multiple fronts. One of the most prominent groups standing up for landowner rights in New York is the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York (JLCNY). The group is in essence a “coalition of coalitions,” representing 38 landowner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill to Extend Fracking Moratorium until 2013 Hits NY Senate</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/bill-to-extend-fracking-moratorium-until-2013-hits-ny-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/bill-to-extend-fracking-moratorium-until-2013-hits-ny-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As predicted yesterday (see this MDN story), NY State Sen. Greg Ball, a RINO from Putnam County, introduced legislation into the Senate yesterday that would extend the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in New York until June 1, 2013. Fortunately not many of his colleagues in the Republican-controlled Senate agree with him, making passage of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PA Gov. Responds to PennFuture Criticism of Marcellus Bills</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/pa-gov-responds-to-pennfuture-criticism-of-marcellus-bills/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/pa-gov-responds-to-pennfuture-criticism-of-marcellus-bills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the anti-drilling Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) released a report detailing the problems (from their perspective) with PA Senate Bill 1100 and PA House Bill 1950 which are nearing passage (a copy of the PennFuture report is embedded below). PennFuture’s CEO and president, Jan Jarrett, called on the legislature and Gov. Tom Corbett [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Extending NY Fracking Moratorium Hits Assembly Today</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/bill-extending-ny-fracking-moratorium-hits-assembly-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New legislation will be introduced in the New York Assembly today to extend the moratorium on fracking in New York State until either June, or “the end of” 2013, depending on the news source. MDN previously warned that this was coming (see this MDN story). The bill will be introduced in the Assembly by Robert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Gov. Cuomo Signals Drilling Not Likely to Happen in 2012</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/ny-gov-cuomo-signals-drilling-not-likely-to-happen-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/ny-gov-cuomo-signals-drilling-not-likely-to-happen-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although pro-drilling groups in New York are attempting to put a positive face on it, yesterday NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state has not yet made a determination on whether fracking will be allowed. Not “when” it will be allowed, but “whether” it will be allowed. He said, “We haven’t made that determination.” His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PA Bill Requiring EMS Plan for Marcellus Wells Nears Passage</title>
		<link>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/pa-bill-requiring-ems-plan-for-marcellus-wells-nears-passage/</link>
		<comments>http://marcellusdrilling.com/2012/01/pa-bill-requiring-ems-plan-for-marcellus-wells-nears-passage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although a comprehensive bill to tighten regulations on Marcellus Shale drilling in Pennsylvania along with an impact fee has still not passed the PA legislature, a separate, smaller bill is about to. The smaller bill requires Marcellus Shale well operators to provide geographic siting information to local, county and state EMS officials and to develop [...]]]></description>
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