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All these changes already are in motion, according to the new U.S.
government annual energy outlook, a document that paints the clearest
picture yet of the transformation being wrought by the natural gas boom.
BLM studying massive Wyo. gas field expansion on mostly public land
The Obama administration has taken a major step toward authorizing
what could become one of the nation’s largest natural gas fields in
southern Wyoming that, if built out over the next 15 years, could produce
enough natural gas to heat millions of homes a year for decades.
The oil man who figured out fracking
He cracked the code. That’s what folks in the oilpatch say about
George Mitchell. In the 1970s and ’80s, the country’s conventional, big
pools of natural gas were tapped out. Drillers looked in new geologic
formations, but found themselves stumped.
“We knew the gas was there,” Mitchell tells Marketplace. “We didn’t
know how to get it free.”
Students’ fossil-fuel divestment campaign aims at colleges’ creamy
moral centers
Those kids today, amirite? What with their video games and their
Facebooks and their grassroots organizing to create sociopolitical change.
350.org’s campaign to create pressure on universities to divest from fossil
fuel companies is not just rolling — it’s snowballing.
Testing continues at giant Louisiana sinkhole after
Hydrogen Sulfide detected
There are more developments concerning the giant Louisiana
sinkhole in Assumption Parish and once again, the highly toxic gas
Hydrogen Sulfide is involved.
Officials seek gas source
Dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas was detected Friday in fumes
coming from crude oil drawn from an investigatory well tapped into a
Texas Brine Co. LLC salt cavern in northern Assumption Parish, company
and parish officials said.
BP Oil Spill Flow Rate Vastly Understated For Weeks, Emails Show
Emails that attorneys representing a defendant in the BP oil spill case
plan to introduce in February show for the first time that the oil company