New York is one of only 4 states that does not have an independent environmental agency - meaning, the minerals management agency - that issues well permits, is also responsible for the environmental oversight of the wells it issues permits for. … [Read more...]
Energy In Depth Family Tree
Dory has done a masterful job as usual at connecting the dots on the fracking shills. Here's her family tree on possibly the biggest bunch of misfits since the Manson Family: Energy in Depth, producers of the fracking mockumentary Truthland. Or, as … [Read more...]
Tom West guilt trips DEC scribes with my memo
A Tom West Memo to DEC staffers discusses how to deal with "the opposition". Somehow West got a copy of an email I sent regarding a meeting with the DEC staff - and sent it back to the DEC with his comments. In this memo, he chastises the DEC staff … [Read more...]
New York Riesling: “Full bodied, with hints of lemons, limes and toluene”
Keuka Lake residents and wineries have second thoughts about letting a bunch of neolithic thugs frack methane into their drinking water . And dodging frack truck convoys on their way to the annual harvest. Imagine that. Team Jeff & Jodi have the … [Read more...]
Chinapeake Lays Off Americans
Chinapeake lays off English speaking Americans right and left . . . Chesapeake retreat ends American energy land grab Reuters By Edward McAllister | Reuters – 21 hrs … [Read more...]
Losing Zoning Attorney Advises DEC On Zoning
Karla Fisk is married to one smart cookie of a lawyer . . . . Phil Simpson points out that the DEC attorneys took dictation from Chesapeake's lobbyist - the same guy that got his butt kicked in the Dryden and Middlefield zoning cases. Anschutz … [Read more...]
Confirmed: Fracking Can Pollute – surprise . . .
Confirmed: fracking can pollute is a new article in Salon that reports on a new study by the National Academy of Sciences, a group that is not wholly funded by Chinapeake Energy, like the Buffalo University Shale Shamstitute of Frackademics Shale … [Read more...]
Chinapeake
In a move that is sure to frack Wall Street, Chesapeake Energy has changed its name to "Chinapeake Energy" re-incorporated in the Caymans and obtained a new listing symbol on the stock exchange FRK U. In an early morning announcement, Chesapeake's … [Read more...]
Compulsory Integration of Horizontal Wells
Compulsory Integration in New York is a new narated Power Point on why compulsory pooling / integration should not be applied to the laterals of horizontal wells. http://my.brainshark.com/Compulsory-Pooling-of-Horizontal-Wells-134334393 New … [Read more...]
Chinapeake Energy Writes NY’s Fracking Regulations
These are copies of the correspondence between Chinapeake Energy's lobbyist in New York, Tom West and the DEC's lawyers. Who copied down the lobbyist's wording almost … [Read more...]
Brad Field – The DEC’s Flat Earth Poster Boy
Brad Field - the DEC's Flat Earth Poster Boy In denying the fait accompli of global warming by greenhouse gasses, there are the deluded and the deluders. The global warming deluders have conveniently made a list of themselves, as if to proclaim … [Read more...]