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Williams : Fracking Bozos of the Marcellus

February 12, 2014
Williams : Fracking Bozos of the Marcellus

Every oil and gas play has its pioneers - generally the wildcatters that discover the field - and its bozos, the me-too johnny-come-latelys that define where the field ends. The Marcellus has a large cast of bozos in New York - Norse Energy, Gastem, various fracking riffraff. Pennsylvania has its own share of bozos - Hess, Newfield, and Williams Exploration - who is single handedly defining that the NE Pa. Marcellus has plateaued if not peaked. These are the fracking gasholes that want to buy up ROW in New York state to build the Constitution Pipeline to supply a field that they can’t find any fracking gas in. If these gasholes show up at your place looking to buy right of way and threatening you with condemnation, tell them Come and fracking try […]

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And then the frackers explode . . .

February 11, 2014
And then the frackers explode . . .

Forgot to mention that as part of the “fracking health” study. Shale Gas Frack Fires are too hot for local firefighters to do anything about it. As firefighters discovered at a recent shale gas well explosion in Pennsylvania that killed one worker and injured another while they were hooking it up to a gathering system. If the shale gas well is near a school, house, daycare center or tanker train full of Canadian Tar Balls, best run. Fast. Welcome to Fracking Hell pilgrim. The proposed setback of a well pad from a house in New York is 500 feet. Look at the photo and tell me what part of 500′ is close enough for your house. In Dallas, it’s 1,500 feet. The proposed set back of everything else - a compressor, tank battery, de-gasser or a […]

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Fracking Reparations Publicity Stunt

February 8, 2014
Fracking Reparations Publicity Stunt

The Disjointed Landowners are scraping together funds to pay some Shale Shyster to file a Fracking Reparations Publicity Stunt against the State of New York. One that is bankrolled by the Koch Brothers. A publicity stunt that, in the case of most landowners, is over something that is just not there : profitable shale gas under their land. On behalf of the few landowners that actually have any shale gas potential. And the gas industry. And the Shale Shysters. The plain fact is that unless Chesapeake or Exxon have leased the land and filed for a HVHF well permit application on it, there’s probably no shale gas worth fooling with there. Threatening to sue the agency that issues drilling permits might be a bit counterproductive if you have a drilling permit application in the queue. They […]

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No Additional Gas, No Constitution Pipeline ?

February 7, 2014
No Additional Gas, No Constitution Pipeline ?

Pretty simple equation. Adding pipeline capacity is predicated on increasing or sustained production, not decreasing production. If there is not sufficient surplus gas to justify a new pipeline, there is not much justification to build another pipeline. Likewise, if there is sufficient existing right of way (ROW) - alongside a railroad line, existing gas transmission line, highway or utility line, there is not much justification to acquire additional right of way for a new line. But let’s focus on the gas supply issue first - early indications are that the NE Pennsylvania gas fields may have already hit a plateau in production. See the chart below showing a net decrease in overall production (the red line) See the article here: Has the NE Pa. Marcellus peaked ? If so, then there is […]

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Gas Industry Demands DEC Finish Regs. That Were Kept Unfinished At Industry’s Behest

February 5, 2014
Gas Industry Demands DEC Finish Regs. That Were Kept Unfinished At Industry's Behest

For forty (40) fracking years. The Koch Brothers’s Fracking Front Group, the (Rocky) “Mountain States Legal Foundation” is not just bankrolling the Fracking Reparations Publicity Stunt against the State of New York, they are writing the threatening demand letters - from Lakewood, Colorado. Catch is they are about 40 years late to be complaining about the DEC’s failure to update it regulations. Since that’s how long the industry has been lobbying New York to keep those regulations from being updated and promulgated. If this strikes you as more than a bit ironic, you’d be right. The Koch Brothers are now demanding the DEC finish the SGEIS, when the gas industry has successfully worked with the Division of Mineral Resources to keep the updates unfinished since 1972. As Brian Brock has explained, with […]

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State Senate Forum on Fracking Economics Feb 4th

January 23, 2014
State Senate Forum on Fracking Economics Feb 4th

New York Senate forum to address the likely economic impacts of fracking in New York. The DEC has based its economic impact analysis on reserve estimates that were a bit overstated. They took those reserve estimates and used them to project what that would mean in terms of jobs and taxes in New York. And those projections became part of the dSGEIS and the fracking folklore about what fracking would do for Upstate. New York became the World Capital of Shale Hype. No one in the industry actually believed it, they just paid their PR crews to broadcast it. Senator Avella is hosting a forum in Albany to delve into how the DEC overstated reserves by 100X, who was responsible for overstating reserves, and who took those estimates and […]

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Chesapeake Bails from New York

January 23, 2014
Chesapeake Bails from New York

Before they even got a chance to frack it. Chesapeake is obeying a court order (surprise) and releasing the New York leases that they had been trying to hold by the arcane legal ploy known as “Farce Majeure” which is latin for a “major farce“. If you have a zombie Chesapeake lease encumbering your property, you now have to go to the court house to get it removed - or it will cloud your title. Contact Joe Heath at Fleased and he will explain how to clear it. Chesapeake Releases New York Leases Chesapeake will be releasing expired leases. Pursuant to the agreement between Chesapeake and the Attorney General, Chesapeake abandoned its claim of force majeure as of December 31, 2013. We will continue to keep Fleased members up to date regarding […]

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EDF’s Gaseous Con Job

September 26, 2013
EDF's Gaseous Con Job

Not surprisingly, the Environmental Defense Fraud’s work is simply a replay of the same stunt pulled by frackademics at Penn Stat and MIT. Wherein they determine that new wells cherry picked by the industry do not leak. When new. This is not news, much less worthy of peer-reviewed study, just an exercise greenwashing. Since it neatly dodges the real issue - methane leakage from aging wells and aging infrastructure - right to the burner tip. Read the study - here - but long story short, they sniffed some fittings and valves on new wells that the industry allowed them to test and determined they weren’t leaking. What a surprise. Remarkably, they only tested the ambient air downwind of twenty (20) producing well sites hand-picked by the industry. No ages given on the wells, but […]

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Cuomo’s End Run on LNG

September 24, 2013
Cuomo's End Run on LNG

After taking a public caning on their still-born “fracking regulations” the Cuomo Administration has learned its lesson: Go undercover. Or in the case of LNG export terminals - trivialize the review process by handing it off to the most obscure group inside the DEC - the “Remediation” team - ie. the clean-up squad. Which, in the event of an LNG terminal disaster, would be the guys in the yellow HAZMAT suits picking up char-broiled body parts. By playing the Obscurity Card, Cuomo is avoiding the larger debate: Why export American gas overseas in the first place ? And why from New York ? And if New York, where ? Oyster Bay ? Is New York to be a dumping ground of frackwaste and pipelines so that some petro-oligarchs can make a […]

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Frackers Dictate “Rules” to DEC

September 21, 2013
Frackers Dictate "Rules" to DEC

Tearing up big chunks of America to export gas overseas strikes me as pretty 3rd World. A bit petro-oligarchic. If there is any doubt about who is pushing this (hint: rhymes with crackers) or why (hint: rhymes with funny), just read what they have drafted as “regulations” for LNG facilities in New York. New York’s proposed LNG permitting rules were written by the frackers. That’s clear from just skimming them. There are virtually no requirements on siting - no setbacks from residences or other businesses, no venting limitations, and comically dinky permit fees. The frackers dictated some fluff to their accomplices inside the DEC. Imagine that. New York is shaping up to be kind of a backwater dump zone for fracking. Where Fracksylvania gets rid of its frack waste - […]

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