StateImpact Targets Philly Mayoral Candidate for “Ties” to Marcellus
The anti-drilling StateImpact Pennsylvania, an initiative of taxpayer-funded PBS, recently published an “expose” on the race for Philadelphia mayor and how fossil fuel companies–namely the Marcellus Shale industry–are corrupting the race with huge donations to candidates. We mean, it’s just so unbelievable that, well, we don’t believe it! Huge. Money corrupts. Bags and bags of money from those evil, nasty frackers meant to buy off the mayor’s race in the liberal bastion of Philly. It’s absolutely sinister. Oh. How much money is being donated by frackers? Because he’s a state senator, only one of the dozen or so running is required to file financial statements–State Senator Anthony Hardy Williams. So we have the best data on Tony. By the way, Tony’s wife Shari (a fine lady whom we are privileged to have as an acquaintance) works for the enemy–the Marcellus Shale Coalition. StateImpact hates the MSC and by extension, anyone associated with them. So StateImpact poured over the recent financial filing by Williams and this is the huge smoking gun they found…
Read More “StateImpact Targets Philly Mayoral Candidate for “Ties” to Marcellus”
We finally have the final version of the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) from the NY Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC). This is the document that would control where and how (and if) fracking is done in the Empire State. The Final SGEIS (or FSGEIS), a full copy embedded below, is more than 2,000 pages long. No, we’ve not yet read it. But what we do know is that if drillers can drill and frack a well using less than 300,000 gallons of water, it’s permitted under this FSGEIS. Is such a thing possible? Probably not–at least not economically. You won’t make any money, so it’s a moot point. The FSGEIS is not the final document that will be issued. The very last thing to come will be a “Findings statement” by DEC Commissioner (and anti-driller) Joe Martens. According to state law, Martens cannot issue the Findings statement before 10 days from issuing the FSGEIS. Martens knows he’s going to get his rear-end sued from now until he leaves office, so he’ll take his time before releasing the Findings statement, which will essentially say “we don’t have enough science to prove fracking doesn’t harm people or the environment, so the safe thing to do is disallow it for now.” The phraseology he uses will be scrutinized and will be the basis of what we predict is at least several, possibly many lawsuits. Pro-drillers are not going away. Our property rights have been unconstitutionally stripped away. We will fight until we win…
The mask has been ripped off fractivist liars peddling what they pretend is science–and it’s been ripped off by mainstream media outlets including the Associated Press, USA Today, the International Business Times and (yes) The New York Times. Let us explain. Last week MDN brought you a story about a new research study that was ostensibly authored by Penn State researchers which found, using “non-traditional” methods of research, that wastewater leaking from an above-ground impoundment had migrated up to a mile and a half away and had contaminated three private water wells in PA–five years ago (see 
Reading through earnings calls transcripts (hey, somebody has to do it), we discovered what we believe no one else has (yet) discovered or reported. On an earnings call yesterday, top management from EV Energy Partners, one of the largest acreage holders in the Utica Shale, shared interesting initial results from the test Utica well they drilled in Tuscarawas County, OH–a well drilled using waterless fracking technology from GASFRAC (see