The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: CONSOL focused on building Utica core; Wayne Natl Forest lease sales net $1.7M for taxpayers; proposed PA methane regs go way beyond fed standards; Mass. AG panicked over Exxon CEO becoming Sec State; protesters show up at…
As we mentioned in a story yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management proceeded with an online auction for BLM-controlled land in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest (see 10-Yr Wait is Over, BLM Auctions Wayne Natl Forest Leases Today). The BLM plan was to auction 33 parcels totaling 1,600 acres. As it turns out, only 17 parcels…
As MDN alerted you in October, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced they would auction 33 parcels in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest (WNF) to allow shale fracking (see BLM Launches Auction to Lease Wayne National Forest for Fracking). The parcels add up to just 1,600 acres, but hey, it’s a start. As we said…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Activists backed with lib $$ protest against Trump & natgas; petition with out-of-state signatures may affect OH Wayne National Forest lease sale; Williams closing OKC office, moving people to Tulsa; OPEC cutback may trigger drilling boom in…
It’s been 10 long years, but finally in October the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) posted a lease sale auction for 33 parcels in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest (see BLM Launches Auction to Lease Wayne National Forest for Fracking). Although there are some 18,000 acres under consideration for leasing by the BLM in WNF, this…
In 2012 a group of what some call “aggressive” anti-drilling zealots flying under the name of Appalachia Resist ran a training camp in Athens County, OH to incite impressionable young idiots into criminal acts under the guise of saving the planet (see Anti-Drillers in Ohio Learn to Break the Law at Special Camp). They taught…
Yet another mindless, useless and scientifically wrong letter has been sent to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) by a group of radical environmental organizations to ask (demand, really) that the BLM halt its plans to allow fracking to take place in the Wayne National Forest (WNF). Nowhere in the letter sent by the Sierra…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: NED really is dead – KM pulls the plug; 2016 northeast natgas trends; hypocrisy of OH fractivists calling for another public hearing; the Hulk goes after Tom Wolf; KM’s canceled pipeline is bad news for Vermont economy;…
The anti-drilling loons of Athens County, OH are at it again. ACFAN (The Athens County Fracking Action Network) along with other radicals like the Ohio Sierra Club, want the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to extend a comment period on drilling operations that are due to begin in Wayne National Forest (WNF). We’ve previously written…
Yesterday we reported that a group of Ohio landowners calling themselves LEASE (Landowners for Energy Access and Safe Exploration) are encouraging Ohio residents to write in support of drilling in the Wayne National Forest (see OH Landowners Urge BLM to Proceed with Wayne Natl Forest Drilling). The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been…
As MDN told you last week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently seeking public comments on a plan to allow drilling in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest, or WNF (see Another Baby Step in Fracking Ohio’s Wayne National Forest). WNF is a “patchwork” of public land scattered among private land. Some 60% of the…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: The well runs dry for the little guy; BLM finds “no significant impact” in WNF from o&g leasing; Vallourec posts big loss; Hilcorp pad still shut down for earthquake investigation; Baker Hughes evolving; future of U.S. shale…
Last week the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce and ShaleDirectories.com co-hosted the Utica Upstream conference at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, OH. MDN previously gathered up reported comments from the person who seemed to steal the show, Maria Cortez of energy research firm/consultant Wood Mackenzie (see Utica Event: OH Landowners Will Lose…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: OH groups & officials lobby for drilling in Wayne Natl Forest; latest Duke shale study comes up short; the collapse of shale gas production has begun; a look at the LNG market; the “great divide” between crude…
As we reported a couple of weeks ago, there has been some progress on finally allowing drilling in the Wayne National Forest (WNF) in Ohio (see Small Progress with Drilling in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest). WNF is a “patchwork” of public land scattered among private land. Some 60% of the mineral rights below WNF are…
Last year it was the radicals at the Philadelphia-based Clean Air Council who tried to screw up Christmas by rewriting beloved Christmas carols as environmental wacko tunes (see Anti-Drilling Christmas Carols: Climate Change is Coming to Town [Video]). Apparently the tactic works to garner attention (from sycophantic media), because this year it was the environmental…