Marcellus Drilling News, a subscription shale rag, re-cycles fracking PR and sells it as if it were “news” to what must be the most gullible fracking audience in the world. MDN was probably the only semi-pro shale shyster that was unaware of the fact that the New York DEC has a …
Over 200,000 comments were delivered to the DEC’s bunker in Albany courtesy of the Yoko, Sandra & Sean Delivery Service. (See story below) Bravo to all concerned ! Now time to sue the DEC for trying to turn the Empire State into a fracking banana republic. Here is the breakdown of who helped gather the 200,000 responses. Plus …
Update: As of Valentine’s Day, Norse lost their DIP financing – meaning they face liquidation. Joe Heath opines on why Norse folded - shoddy business practices that lead to multiple lawsuits When I look at Norse bankruptcy Petition, I find that a large majority of their debt is from law suits, not drilling …
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 …
Meaning literally “I Friend Home Rule.” Thanks to the hard work of many people, the Towns of Dryden and Middlefield have literally been “friended” – in Latin no less – by dozens of cities and towns in their fight to defend their constitutional right to enact land use ordinances. Amicus curiae (“friend …
You don’t really just sign a bad gas lease, it’s more like you contract it as a disease from a landman. That’s just for openers. Then you have to get rid of it. A bad gas lease is kind of like a fracking vampire, it takes a lot to kill. Just because …
That’s how close a shale gas well can be to a house in New York state – 100 feet. 30.48 meters. Less than the depth of most residential lots. About the distance from your front door to your neighbors’ house across the street. Too damn close. Close enough to crater your …
The American Petroleum Institute makes it official : Your are in their fracking way. Oil and gas people focus on the geology, not what’s on the surface: trees, people, trout streams, houses, stuff like that. That’s just the nature of the business. What’s on the surface can be an impediment …
Lawyers, believe it or not, have some code of ethics, and one of them is a taboo on “client abandonment”. Meaning it is considered unethical to abandon a client that has fallen on hard times. Such appears to be the case, albeit ironically, with the plaintiffs in both the Dryden …
Lou Allstadt has taken a look at the USGS report of the Utica Shale “sweet spot” in New York state, and has concluded, that based on test wells drilled, the sweet spot may be a bit sour in Otsego County. Karen Edelstein will map the test well locations in more detail. Lou …