A New Home on the Range
Range Resources, the first gas company to drill for natural gas in the Marcellus play, is expanding its presence. A company representative said on Monday that Range will build almost 300,000 square...
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Knocking on a gas tax
Rancor has barely subsided over the House’s rammed through tax (SB 1155) on natural gas. Representative Garth Everett (R-Lycoming) stood in lock-step with most House Republicans in a failed attempt to...
View ArticlePowers is leaving, but questions linger
James Powers Jr. (pictured on right), Director of Pennsylvania’s Homeland Security will leave his post on Friday, amidst a firestorm. The questions are still swirling over a contract between Power’s...
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The Frack-Mobile
The future has arrived in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale country, and it looks similar to the picture below. This is GE’s new mobile evaporator: as they say in GE land: its imagination at work....
View ArticlePennsylvania Politics Continues to Trump Health and the Environment
Politics continues to threaten the health and welfare of Pennsylvanians. The latest is how the Republican-dominated legislature and Gov. Tom Corbett separated one of the wealthiest and more...
View ArticleYou Can’t Wash Away Fracking’s Effects
Jos Lara just wanted a job. A company working in the natural gas fields needed a man to power wash wastewater tanks. Clean off the debris. Make them shining again. And so Jos Lara became a power washer...
View ArticleStanding Tall for Landowner Rights
Julia Trigg Crawford of Direct, Texas, is the manager of a 650-acre farm that her grandfather first bought in 1948. The farm produces mostly corn, wheat, and soy. On its north border is the Red River;...
View ArticleThe Fracking Boom is a Fracking Bubble
Gas prices have plunged to the low $2 range—except in Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, the prices at the pump are in the mid-$2 range. That’s because Gov. Tom Corbett and the legislature imposed a...
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