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Big Gas Mafia freaks out over NY Times article

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The “anti-natural gas agenda strikes again. See, here’s how it works: Anytime you object to getting poisoned or getting ripped off in the stock markets, you must be anti-gas. We’re just so unreasonable.

The Star-Telegram claims Aubrey delivered a “blistering response” but I thought it was a whiny screed and it made me laugh out loud. But, here is my very best personal favorite response to the NY Times articles that finally exposed the scam that is natural gas:

“The New York Times hates Texas. That’s part of their agenda,” said Bernard Weinstein, associate director of Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University

And then there is the precious EID response where they just make $hit up and vomit it on the page in bullet points because everybody knows that bullet points makes it true. Imagine my surprise as an employee of Earthworks’ Oil and Gas Accountability Project to learn that Deborah Rogers is an employee of the same organization.

Trick #4: Tell your readers that Deborah Rogers does work for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, but don’t mention that she also works for environmental groups that seek to ban hydraulic fracturing — even though most folks might think that’s relevant here.

…only, that’s total bullshit on two counts.

  1. She does not work for any environmental group that I know of.
  2. OGAP is not trying to ban drilling.
And there you have and example of desperation.

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Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.

Comments

  1. Brown Bess says

    Bernard Weinstein is a prostitute who will come to any conclusion you pay him to come to.

  2. Anonymous says

    Article in NYT doesn’t make sense. MIT and government estimates show high volumes of shale gas. Prices are low because of glut in shale gas.

  3. Anonymous says

    Interesting how those estimates increased exponentially once accounting rules changed, though.

    Hope Hinchey & SEC have success in getting industry and EIA to document how these estimates were reached.

    Just like the air quality and water quality that they push back on: if it's so clean, so safe, the reserve estimates are so accurate……why not full transparency as to how these conclusions are achieved?

  4. Anonymous says

    The EIA numbers on shale gas are misleading. Since shale gas is being harvested at much higher levels RATHER than conventional gas, of course it is going to show up as 25% of the total now. Further prices are low and there is a glut because the operators kept drilling even though prices were too low. Why? Because they had to meet debt service. But now thousands of people in North Texas have had their minerals harvested at extremely low prices so they haven't realized the royalties that they should have gotten had this industry been less in debt and better resource stewards.

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