Brian Brock FOIL’d copies of the DEC’s proposed 1997 fracking regulations, as previously reported here. The DEC then redacted them in 2000 – blanking out entire sections of the proposed regulations or putting a line through them. The DEC then pretended that they had lost the proposed regulations entirely - during the entire four (4) …
The history of anti-Gasland mockumentaries repeats itself – again. The first time as tragedy – Shelly dePue’s painfully embarrassing Bubbling Annulus, (which is the unseen star of Truthyland), the second time as farce: Phlegm McKleer’s cut ‘n paste FrackNation. Wherein Phlegm the Phracking Phreak explains the grass roots opposition to shale gas industrialization as a …
On December 28, 2012, the movie Promised Land is being released in New York and Los Angeles. For the rest of us, we will have to wait until January 4, 2013. Since its announcement this summer, the Natural Gas industry has had its boxers in a bunch. Between editorial hit …
Turns out Holy Frack Front is just another fracking Rent-a-Rally, where ringers are bussed in, fed, etc. to insure turnout at professionally staged gas industry PR events. Surprise. This time with the ecclesiastical blessing of the Church of the Holy Shale who exhort their flock to “Man Up” to confront “Him” - in exchange …
HuffPost’s article, Pennsylvania Gas Drilling Research Has Received Over $19 Millon From Charities | AP | By KEVIN BEGOS | 10/07/2012 outlines how much money citizen and nonprofits have received in grants. Foundations from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh have provided more than $19 million for gas-drilling-related grants since 2009, according to …
FrackNation could have been called FrackHoleNation, GasHoleWorld, or JustFrackingNuts. Produced by someone named Phlegm McClear (is that a decongestant ?) and his curiously appropriately named wife Ann McWhinney (?), who handles PR, because Phlegm is a wee bit . . . phlegmatic. FrackNation turns out to be just another landman’s fracking infomercial, this time in Irish, so it’s a …
Dear Readers: This will be the last in the series. I hope you found it interesting and informative. For those new to it, please take the time and read it all. Over the next couple of months I will be involved with updating my research and will be compiling all …
NOTE: This is the last part of the EID series. Links to Parts 1&2 below: Energy-in-Depth (EID) “GAS”roots – 1 Energy-in-Depth (EID) “GAS”roots – 2: The Birth of Energy-In-Depth The Untangling I was once asked to give a visual description the “dots” and connections. Images like pyramid, web, or tree …
Energy-in-Depth (EID) “GAS”roots – 1 Energy-in-Depth (EID) “GAS”roots – 3 Birth of Energy-in-Depth June 5, 2009: A letter was sent by Barry Russell, President and CEO of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) to members with the “birth announcement” of Energy-in-Depth. Kudos to Desmogblog for locating the announcement. Click here …
Note: This is a series focusing on Energy-in-Depth (EID) and will be presented over the next few days. The topic of EID and its “dots” is quite a tangled picture. I hope, by presenting this in parts, it will avoid sending you, the reader, screaming from the room. Energy-in-Depth (EID) …