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From Hurricane Maria to COVID, Gas Lobbyist-turned-Trump Energy Lawyer Uses Crises as ‘Opportunity’
From Hurricane Maria to COVID, Gas Lobbyist-turned-Trump Energy Lawyer Uses Crises as ‘Opportunity’ Among a string of recent environmental rollbacks, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aims to vastly narrow the scope of environmental reviews for those applying for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permits. The proposal has been guided by Bill Cooper, a former oil and […]
Big Oil Fears Keystone XL Ruling Means End of Easy Pipeline Permits
Big Oil Fears Keystone XL Ruling Means End of Easy Pipeline Permits On April 15, Judge Brian Morris nullified water-crossing permits in Montana that were granted for the Keystone XL, a major setback for the long-embattled tar sands oil pipeline. The ruling came just days after Keystone XL owner TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada, obtained billions of dollars in subsidies from the Alberta government […]
Big Oil Cheers Trump’s ‘New NAFTA’ But Mexico Could Complicate Things
Big Oil Cheers Trump’s ‘New NAFTA’ But Mexico Could Complicate Things While the oil and gas industry has lauded the new trade deal that may soon replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a provision added by Mexico, along with its new president’s plan to ban fracking, could complicate the industry’s rising ambitions there. The new agreement, […]
Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States
Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States During its first year under Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Interior has coordinated closely with the oil and gas industry to accomplish its priorities on the nation’s expansive federal lands. Among them: considering a plan to transfer control of oil and gas development on public […]
Wyoming Now Third State to Propose ALEC Bill Cracking Down on Pipeline Protests
Wyoming Now Third State to Propose ALEC Bill Cracking Down on Pipeline Protests On the heels of Iowa and Ohio, Wyoming has become the third state to introduce a bill criminalizing the type of activities undertaken by past oil and gas pipeline protesters. One of the Wyoming bill’s co-sponsors even says it was inspired by the protests led by […]
As Trump Unfurls Infrastructure Plan, Iowa Bill Seeks to Criminalize Pipeline Protests
As Trump Unfurls Infrastructure Plan, Iowa Bill Seeks to Criminalize Pipeline Protests The Iowa Senate has advanced a bill which critics say could lead to the criminalization of pipeline protests, which are being cast as “terrorist activities.” Dakota Access pipeline owner Energy Transfer Partners and other companies have lobbied for the bill, Senate Study Bill 3062, which opens up the […]
Congress Works with Big Oil on Letter Suggesting Anti-Pipeline Activists Face Terrorism Charges
Congress Works with Big Oil on Letter Suggesting Anti-Pipeline Activists Face Terrorism Charges On October 23, 84 Congressional representatives made a splash when they published a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking if those engaged in activism disrupting or damaging pipeline operations should face criminal prosecution as an act of terrorism under the USA PATRIOT ACT. Spearheaded […]
After Years’ Long Push, Fracking Has Quietly Arrived in Alaska
After Years’ Long Push, Fracking Has Quietly Arrived in Alaska Hydraulic fracturing‘s horizontal drilling technique has enabled industry to tap otherwise difficult-to-access oil and gas in shale basins throughout the U.S. and increasingly throughout the world. And now “fracking,” as it’s known, could soon arrive at a new frontier: Alaska. As Bloomberg reported in March, Paul Basinski, a pioneer of […]
How a Judge Scrapped Pennsylvania Families’ $4.24M Water Pollution Verdict in Gas Drilling Lawsuit
How a Judge Scrapped Pennsylvania Families’ $4.24M Water Pollution Verdict in Gas Drilling Lawsuit For many residents of Carter Road in Dimock, Pennsylvania, it’s been nearly a decade since their lives were turned upside down by the arrival of Cabot Oil and Gas, a company whose Marcellus Shale hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) wells were plagued by a […]
Fracked Gas LNG Exports Were Centerpiece In Promotion of Panama Canal Expansion, Documents Reveal
Fracked Gas LNG Exports Were Centerpiece In Promotion of Panama Canal Expansion, Documents Reveal After nearly a decade of engineering work on the project, the Panama Canal’s expansion opened for business on June 26. At the center of that business, a DeSmog investigation has demonstrated, is a fast-track export lane for gas obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the United […]
“End the Circus”: Big Oil Group Plots to Exclude Public from Public Lands Bidding at IOGCC Meeting
“End the Circus”: Big Oil Group Plots to Exclude Public from Public Lands Bidding at IOGCC Meeting At the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC)‘s 2016 meeting in Denver, Colorado this week, a representative from a prominent oil and gas lobbying group advocated that auctions of federal lands should happen online “eBay”-style — a clear […]
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 essence […]
Fracking Supply Chain a Climate Disaster, Doing Little to Uplift Poor Communities: Studies
Fracking Supply Chain a Climate Disaster, Doing Little to Uplift Poor Communities: Studies Two recent studies further call into question the oil and gas industry’s claims of the climate benefits and community benefits of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). One of those studies, published in Environmental Research Letters and titled, “Just fracking: a distributive environmental justice analysis of […]
Top Drillers Shut Down U.S. Fracking Operations as Oil Prices Continue to Tank
Top Drillers Shut Down U.S. Fracking Operations as Oil Prices Continue to Tank It was a tumultuous week in the world of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for shale oil and gas, with a few of the biggest companies in the U.S. announcing temporary shutdowns at their drilling operations in various areas until oil prices rise again from the ashes. Among […]
Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon Bringing Fracking to Argentina
Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon Bringing Fracking to Argentina Aubrey McClendon, the embattled former CEO and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy, has announced his entrance into Argentina to begin hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the country’s Vaca Muerta Shale basin. Though he retired as Chesapeake Energy’s CEO back in 2013 in the aftermath of a shareholder revolt, McClendon wasted little time in creating a new company called […]
