Fracking Hollenbeck Gas Site…

and how fitting that Japanese tsunami debris washes up on U.S. shores yesterday.  So symbolic.  Japan's outmoded/outdated fission-based nuclear reactors at Fukushima (Westinghouse boiling water nuclear reactor stuff) go tits up, contaminate (and continue to do so) the Earth's atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean with radioactive material, and these two balls from Japan show up on U.S. shores....like "the balls in our court" or something! What's our energy game plan now?  And don't tell me it's…

Nearly 40 years ago, when the first oil price shock from the Middle East and OPEC disrupted the American economy, North Carolina and Appalachia briefly became an oil and gas frontier. Following geological investigations, Chevron drilled an exploratory well in the Deep River Basin beneath Lee County, N.C. Oil was discovered at 5,000 feet, but it contained excessive paraffin and Chevron plugged the well.

It remains there today as a new natural gas and oil technology has emerged: the…

SOCORRO, N.M. January 10, 2012 – As oil companies deploy hundreds of wells in northeast Pennsylvania to tap into the lucrative “shale gas” deposits, many are weighing the environmental impacts, the economic outlook and the regulatory climate related to the latest bonanza in domestic natural gas production.

Now, the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy – a research wing of New Mexico Tech – is taking the lead in framing the debate on these hot-button issues. The Center and the Economic…

January 12-13, 2012, Lea County Event Center, Hobbs, NM, EnergyPlex Conference Series 2012

HOBBS, N.M., Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On January 12 and 13, the Economic Development Corporation of Lea County and the New Mexico Tech University's New Mexico Center for Energy Policy will kick…

'Enron moment': Insiders sound alarm amid a natural gas rush -'

My take has always been that their trying to get away with as much Environmental rape as they can...

EPA Stance on Natural-Gas Recovery Gets Support

"EPA, which is barred from regulating other aspects of hydraulic fracturing, does have the authority to regulate the underground injection of fracturing fluid if the fluid contains diesel, and recently the agency has started to move forward to do…

Any1 catch CSI Vegas last night? Fracking was the villain...

Despite inconsistencies, like young Det. saying 9mm brass was same brand, 1 was…

Carcinogens injected into gas wells, report says -

Millions of gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals and known carcinogens were injected into oil and gas wells from 2005 to 2009, a report by three House Democrats says.…

More than 15 months after natural gas drilling contaminated [1] drinking water in Dimock, Pa., state officials are ordering the company

responsible -- Houston-based Cabot Oil and Gas -- to permanently shut

down some of its wells, pay nearly a quarter million dollars in fines,

and permanently provide drinking water to 14 affected…

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by The News under federal and state open-records laws, plus other reports and studies, reveal a

pattern of emissions of toxic compounds, often including

cancer-causing benzene, from Barnett Shale facilities.

More than 90 percent of the gas-processing plants, compressor stations and wells that agencies have examined with leak-detecting infrared cameras since 2007 were…

Rep. Henry A.…