Marcellus Drilling News

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New York Times: Nightmare on Shale Gas Street
June 28, 2011June 28, 2011

For many, the New York Times is the paragon of virtue, the ultimate source, arbiter of truth, beacon of light in a world of darkness. And of course, everything you read in the Gray Lady is the honest truth—for real!

Sometimes I sigh and wish I too could live inside the liberal bubble and ignore reality and believe everything in the NYT—life would be so much simpler that way. But alas, I’m one of those few who don’t automatically believe what I read. In fact, a lot of what I read I would consider fiction, rather than fact.

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Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues

New Video from Reason.tv: The Truth About Fracking
June 28, 2011June 28, 2011

Reason is a monthly print magazine with the tagline of “free minds and free markets.” It covers politics, culture, and ideas through a mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews. Reason does not lean right nor left, but instead makes “a principled case for liberty and individual choice in all areas of human activity.” Reason also has an operation they call Reason.tv—short online videos. MDN came across a video posted by Reason.tv yesterday called, “The Truth About Fracking.” It’s a short 5 1/2 minute interview conducted by Reason’s Nick Gillespie with science correspondent Ronald Bailey.

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Chesapeake Energy | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Energy Companies

New Numbers Indicate the Enormous Potential of the Marcellus Shale
June 28, 2011June 28, 2011

An editorial in the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail takes the city of Morgantown, WV to task for banning hydraulic fracturing both in and outside of its borders as “nonsense” that should be overturned by a court. The interesting part of the editorial (for MDN) is the opening statement which is a good indicator of the enormous potential of the Marcellus Shale—even larger than most people had dared hope:

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Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation

SRBC Approves 31 Water Resources Projects at June Meeting – Most Related to Marcellus Drilling
June 28, 2011June 28, 2011

The Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) had a busy quarterly meeting on June 23, held in North East, Maryland. Among the things they did, SRBC commissioners approved 31 water resources projects, the vast majority of which are related to drilling in the Marcellus Shale. The list of new projects approved, previous projects modified and into-basin diversions is detailed below.

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