AP: Facebook can’t tell anti-fracking fanatics from spambots.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 21st at 08:00 AM  | 

Just thought that I’d rewrite this title (“Facebook’s spam program catches innocent users“) into something a bit more accurate. Executive summary: anti-fracking* activists – and more general environmental… types… – have been discovering that their regular posting and commenting patterns on Facebook has been winning them two week spam-bans from Facebook. Now, Facebook obviously doesn’t particularly want to give out its anti-spambot protocols, but you | Read More »

Drilling Rigs in Pennsylvania! Hide the Womenfolk!

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  August 17th at 03:30 PM  | 

Democratic State Rep. Michael Sturla is apparently not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Speaking of the impact of the Marcellus Shale drilling boom on Pennsylvania, Sturla said: “Also, aside from building roads so their trucks can get to drill sites and doing a little stream work to mitigate damage from their road building, exactly what are all those things the drillers are doing for | Read More »

EPA Meddling Could Cost Thousands of Jobs

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  August 11th at 10:00 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Elizabeth Blackney are joined by Kathleen Hartnett White to discuss the regulation happy EPA, their new rules on cross-border pollution and how a lizard could cost thousands of jobs in the energy industry. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d | Read More »

It’s Not Easy Going Green, Part II

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  July 17th at 01:00 PM  | 

This week, American Electric Power scuppered plans for a $668 million carbon sequestration project at the utility’s Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virgina. The Mountaineer project had been heralded as the flagship of “clean coal” technology: the process involves using an ammonia chilling process to extract CO2 from the combustion exhaust. The CO2 would then be injected in its liquid state into underground rock layers | Read More »

The New York Times Says Shale Gas is a Giant Ponzi Scheme. Erm, No.

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  June 28th at 11:59 PM  | 

The New York Times really hates natural gas. Just in the last year, the Times has run scaremongering articles on the dangers of hydrofracking and Gasland-inspired tales of groundwater contamination in the “shale plays”, the unconventional sources of natural gas that have redefined domestic gas supply withing the last decade. On Sunday, the paper drifted into unfamiliar and inhospitable territory: petroleum economics. The Times published | Read More »

The Left’s War on Fracking and Domestic Oil Production

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  June 14th at 10:41 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Kathleen Hartnett White to discuss the Left’s smear campaign against fracking and how the technology can open up large tracks of oil and natural gas right there in the U.S. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. | Read More »

Energy 101: Hydraulic Fracturing

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  January 23rd at 12:00 PM  | 

This week, several news stories converged on an odd topic: hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, has been used since the 1950s to stimulate oil and gas wells. The process involves pumping a sand-laden slurry into a well and subjecting it to enough pressure that the rocks in the productive formation fracture, or break. The purpose of the sand is to prop open the fracture, | Read More »