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Lenape’s Publicity Stunt

November 28, 2012

Lenape Resources has made good on their threat to sue the DEC. They just don’t say why exactly. Nor is it clear from reading their complaint. Plus they are claiming damages for voluntarily turning off their own wells. (Why didn’t I ever think of that when gas prices were down ?) And damages for all the money they might have made prospecting for dry shale gas at the fringe of the Marcellus and Utica, if they had new permits to do so - from the DEC - who they just sued. Makes sense, right ? As a fracking publicity stunt. Lenape’s attorney, Michael Joy, who is neither a real estate nor a land use lawyer, has evidently not bothered to read the Dryden, Middlefield, or Binghamton decisions (which are not even […]

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Dryden Rent-a-Plaintiff DOA

November 8, 2012

The Rent-A-Plaintiff in Anschutz v Dryden , Norse Energy, a gas prospector in New York, is functionally comatose as of Q4 2012. Which means one of two things: either frack flak Tom West has to wheel them to the appellate court on a gurney with an IV full of fracking flowback stuck in their arm, or he will have to find yet another plaintiff (with a pulse) in order to perfect an appeal against in Dryden. Can’t be Gastem, they’re history. Could be Johnny Hole Co. - their bullying threats to the DEC certainly fit the pattern. Mike “Road Kill” Knapp’s fracking company might be suitably disreputable. Then the frackers will need to find another spokesfracker to replace Dennis “The Fracking Menace” Holbrook. My vote is for Susan Dorsey as the new Face of Fracking in New York. She knows sign […]

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Frackers Freaking Out

August 31, 2012

Frackers are freaking out because the DEC may not issue the regs. by the end of the summer. Which is today. . . . . Because the Governor didn’t want the legislature to be in Albany when the frack hit the fan. As the Governor told the frackers. Nice try. Did not work out that way, for obvious reasons: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/the-inevitable-slow-path-to-fracking-in-new-york/ Guess what ? There is there is no fracking rush in New York to issue some half baked regulations. Because there is no economic reason to drill a shale gas well in New York. Not before fracking Labor Day. Not right after fracking Labor Day. Not this year, not the next. Even Cuomo understands that. . . But according to some freaked-out frackers : This is an URGENT CALL TO ACTION! We need your immediate assistance. Despite […]

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Voodoo Frackonomics - Post Mortem

August 28, 2012

We said it was a ponzi scheme at the time . . . because it was. In New York, it was more of a lease flipping exercise, finding a greater fool to sell acreage to, even if the buyer was from overseas. Long story short: dry shale gas is un-economic in the Marcellus and Utica in New York. It won’t be economic until methane is over $5 mcf, as this table indicates - the horizontal line is the break-even price on a shale gas well, the vertical bars are different shale gas fields.                     So what’s the fracking rush to permit shale gas wells that are uneconomic in New York ? It’s a political hot potato for Cuomo, so he punts to […]

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Leases Can’t Vote. But Crooks Can.

August 16, 2012

And unscrupulous town board members can for “frack us” resolutions. That leaves the town completely vulnerable - intentionally. That’s not real responsible. None of the “frack us” resolutions was passed with a public hearing - much less a referendum or a survey of town residents. Many of the resolutions were passed by board members that have a clear conflict of interest - in that they have leased to a fracker. Or they want to lease to a fracker, and do not want any town ordinances to conflict with their self-interest. So they pretend that the DEC alone can protect the town roads. When it has no jurisdiction over any roads. But the “frack us” towns are going to depend on the DEC and the kindness of Texans to repair their fracked roads. Or that gas wells don’t leak and contaminate local water supplies. When they do. Even […]

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The Myth of Local Hires

August 16, 2012
The Myth of Local Hires

Promoters of shale gas industrialization continue to mislead the public about local hires. Most jobs on rigs and frack crews are transient, the crews follow the rigs and the rigs move like a carny. So as soon as you are hired, you leave town. When drilling rigs are idle, the crews are idle. And as long as there are trained crews available, new hires are unlikely. The net effect is that the number of new hires in New York will probably be far below the DEC’s projections. And the number of local new hires - hiring people to work in their home towns - will be next to nil. To any gullible New Yorkers that think that a shale fracker is going to hire New Yorkers, read this report from […]

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FracFocus: Where’s the fracking frack ?

August 14, 2012

Turns out that many fracks are not even reported. http://business.financialpost.com/2012/08/15/is-fracfocus-just-a-fig-leaf-for-the-industry/ Given the problems associated with shale gas wells, it is tempting for the operator to not report what they are doing. They have millions of gallons of flowback to make disappear. They have operations - like fracks - that can be problematic. So reporting is something to be avoided by some gas well operators. Including operators that are already in New York. http://www.scribd.com/doc/102627876/A-Town-Supervisor%E2%80%99s-Letter-to-IOGA Gas drillers and frack operators are not required to be licensed in New York - like water well drillers. So they may skip a few reports . . . or several, or whatever they can fracking get away with. In a heavily fracked area, failure to report activities creates problems regarding culpability of spills, flowback, […]

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Frackquakes

August 13, 2012

The University of Texas, a department that has not been bought and paid for by frackers, has completed a study on the correlation of frack waste disposal wells and earthquakes. And lo and behold, they do - frack waste injection wells are likely to precipitate earthquakes. Surprise. Despite what any shale shill at PSU might tell you. Or what any father & son frack flaks for Norwegians might tell you. Or any local un-accredited former land planner turned shale shill. Or any local fracking shill with way too much eye shadow ? and a Russian mail-order bride. If you have fracking - you are likely to have earthquakes - where the fracking waste is disposed of, or from the frack itself. If you have no fracking, then you have no fracking related earthquakes. Because after you recycle the fracking flowback […]

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Truthland Bombs in Buffalo

July 27, 2012

The fracking mockumenatary Truthland played to an audience of eleven (11) in Syracuse a few nights ago. There were almost as many fracking shills and charlatans on the panel as there were frackers in the audience. Narrator dodged questions about the film itself, for obvious reasons: Truthland is a hoax. Thirty (30) in attendance in Buffalo, including seven (7) armed guards for this fracking infomercial, and the audience responded appropriately: with laughter. The narrator ducked the Q&A panel, leaving a grab bag of local shale shills to play dumb about the fracking mockumentary. http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2012/08/01/police-vs-questioner-at-truthland-screening-in-buffalo-ny/ http://www.nofrackingway.us/2012/08/03/fracks-lies-and-videotape/ Summary : Gratuitous use of 7 armed security officers in bullet proof vests. Check. Videographer ejected for deadly possession of a camera. Check University student ejected from university facility to for asking questions. Check Audience busts out laughing at […]

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Compulsory Integration as Preview of Fracking Regs.

July 24, 2012

Cuomo gave the frackers a sneak preview at the fracking regulations that Chesapeake’s lobbyist wrote. Based on the collaboration between the DEC and the gas lobbyists, we can guess what’s in store for us.We know they started off with the worst shale gas regulations in the US. With a gas well setback guaranteed to frack a mortgage or homeowner’s insurance. We know that New York has no has no autonomous environmental agency for shale gas. And we know how it makes regulations - it takes dictation from Chesapeake’s lobbyist. The state’s misbegotten compulsory integration law is a good indication of what to expect from the SGEIS. Because the state’s Compulsory Integration law was written by Chesapeake’s lobbyist. Compulsory integration is so antithetical to property rights that even Pennsylvania doesn’t practice it. But the DEC can and will compel a homeowner into a […]

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