Pennsylvania Doesn’t Need a Severance Tax; It Needs a Ban on Fracking The severance tax on shale gas extraction is on the table in Pennsylvania … again. Only this time, it has a chance of passing. The state Senate has already voted for a budget that includes a small severance tax in exchange for the gutting…
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Climate Denial, Democrat Style
Climate Denial, Democrat Style This week, Pittsburgh is home to a double-header of oil & gas industry conferences, the Northeast U.S. Petrochemical Construction conference and the big DUG East Appalachia Rising conference. DUG originally stood for Developing Unconventional Gas, but with the discovery of shale oil, Hart Energy, the industry consultants who developed the “DUG Brand”,…
Trump’s environmental agenda threatens human health: Comment early, comment often
Trump’s environmental agenda threatens human health: Comment early, comment often On Feb 24, President Trump signed an executive order that established a policy to relieve the country of “unnecessary regulatory burdens.” Trump’s environmental agenda includes the destruction of Obama’s not-yet-implemented Clean Power Plan, a rollback of fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles, and a rule by which for…
Gov. Wolf’s Call for Severance Tax Ignores Looming Climate Crisis
Gov. Wolf’s Call for Severance Tax Ignores Looming Climate Crisis Governor Wolf plans to renew his call for a severance tax on unconventional natural gas drilling during Tuesday’s budget address. Pennsylvania is the only major gas-producing state that does not tax drillers for the gas they extract from shale formations using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. As…
PennLive Must Apologize for Labeling Environmental Leaders as “Domestic Terror Threat”
PennLive Must Apologize for Labeling Environmental Leaders as “Domestic Terror Threat” It is fitting that I came across this photo linking to a Pennlive article on my Facebook feed as I was driving from Yellowstone National Park to Denver, Colorado, a ride that included beautiful scenery and a landscape that was littered with coal trains, oil…
Delaware Riverkeeper Network Says DRBC Authority Over Gas Drilling on Solid Legal Footing
Delaware Riverkeeper Network Says DRBC Authority Over Gas Drilling on Solid Legal Footing West Trenton, NJ – The Delaware Riverkeeper Network finds no merit in a legal action filed by the Wayne Land and Mineral Group against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC). The lawsuit opposes the moratorium on shale gas extraction within the boundaries of…
The Art of the Double-Dealing Megalomaniac
The Art of the Double-Dealing Megalomaniac Savannah State University in Georgia will offer a three-credit course this summer, “The Trump Factor in American Politics.” The professor is Dr. Robert Smith, who says the students will read Trump’s policy statements and excerpts from Trump’s books, and then discuss his political philosophies. Many people may believe this is…
Did $200,000 Bail Keep Pipeline Activist Out of Sunoco’s Way?
Did $200,000 Bail Keep Pipeline Activist Out of Sunoco’s Way? The Sheriff, District Attorney and a judge in Huntingdon County, PA may have stretched the law and infringed on individual civil rights in assisting a gas transmission company to get a wildlife sanctuary cleared for pipeline construction. Sunoco Logistics Partners is in the midst of eminent…
Study: Fracking, Not Just Fracking Wastewater Injection, Causing Earthquakes in Western Canada
Study: Fracking, Not Just Fracking Wastewater Injection, Causing Earthquakes in Western Canada A groundbreaking study published today in Seismological Research Letters has demonstrated a link, for the first time, between hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for oil and gas and earthquakes. “Hydraulic Fracturing and Seismicity in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin” confirms the horizontal drilling technique (which in…
Raging Chicken Radio | Out d’Coup, Episode 3
Raging Chicken Radio | Out d’Coup, Episode 3 On today’s show Sean Kitchen gives us the skinny on some of the latest #PAbudget shenanigans including potential big payoffs to Big Oil & Gas. Plus what’s the latest on medical marijuana? Did you hear that Justice Eakin is stepping down? We’ll also talk about activists converging on…
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