Think more Tracy Chapman than The Beatles. Ok, good deal. Despite the current lackadaisical price action in natural gas, the whole energy market - if not the whole world – is aware that the natural gas revolution is coming. It is just that at the moment…..it sounds like a whisper.   This latest rumination about the future of natural gas was kick-started by [...]  More »

Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert takes a crack at Talisman Terry, the Friendly Fracosaurus. However, the comedian seems to have found a few extra pages of the pro-fracking coloring book.  More »

A conservative watchdog group calls on the New York Times to investigate its recent shale gas economics stories, while one of the targets of the group fires back.  More »

New York proposes gas-drilling rules that would place large areas off-limits to gas drilling.  More »

A new U.S. Forest Service report says fracking fluid from a drilling operation in West Virginia killed ground vegetation within days and more than half the trees within two years.  More »

Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations.  More »

General Electric, a leading producer of gas-turbines and wind power, wants Congress and the Obama administration to pass a clear energy policy that sets green standards while recognizing natural gas’ importance as a backbone to alternative energy plants. The company unveiled a “FlexEfficiency” power plant in Paris Saturday that uses wind and solar energy but relies on natural gas for reliability, but Paul Browning, president and CEO of G.E. thermal products, said Thursday that unclear U.S. policies could prevent investors from buying into the ultimately more efficient but initially expensive plants.  More »

General Electric, a leading producer of gas-turbines and wind power, wants Congress and the Obama administration to pass a clear energy policy that sets green standards while recognizing natural gas’ importance as a backbone to alternative energy plants. The company unveiled a “FlexEfficiency” power plant in Paris Saturday that uses wind and solar energy but relies on natural gas for reliability, but Paul Browning, president and CEO of G.E. thermal products, said Thursday that unclear U.S. policies could prevent investors from buying into the ultimately more efficient but initially expensive plants.  More »

The nation’s largest natural gas producer touts the fuel’s benefits and newfound abundance in the U.S. as well as responds to growing controversy about hydraulic fracturing, the leading method for extracting it.  More »

Permits for drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation will be reviewed once the state environmental agency adopts guidelines. The state would ban fracturing in watersheds supplying New York City and Syracuse while opening up about 85 percent of the state’s portion of the formation to development.  More »

If signed by Gov. Chris Christie, New Jersey would be the first state in the U.S. to outlaw hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas extraction method that environmentalists say poses a threat to groundwater supplies but that the oil and gas industry defends as a time-tested practice that is safe.  More »

Oil major Royal Dutch Shell has put out a set of five principles aimed at demonstrating the company’s committment to protecting the water, air and other resources in the communities where it drills and produces oil and gas using hydraulic fracturing.  More »