A Los Angeles-based husband-wife independent filmmaking team said Tuesday they have exceeded their fundraising goal and will continue with production of a pro-hydraulic fracturing (fracking) documentary film, FrackNation, to combat an upcoming sequel to the Oscar-nominated anti-fracking film Gasland by activist Josh Fox. The couple, however, will continue to fundraise for their project, they said.
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Oxy to Reduce Gas Drilling in North America
Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Oxy) intends to stick with plans it announced last year to cut natural gas production in the Midcontinent because low prices continue to be “horrible,” CEO Stephen Chazen said Wednesday.
Microturbines Find New Niche in Shale Patch
A major U.S. microturbine maker has found a new niche market for its onsite combined heat-and-power generating systems. Los Angeles-based Capstone Turbine Corp. is finding rapid growth for its products in the oil and gas patch.
Gas Supply Growth Still Risky, Say Experts
Natural gas growth potential and prospects for continued modest prices were talked up to a group of state regulatory commissioners meeting in Los Angeles last week, following keynote addresses earlier in the day touting gas and all of its traditional and renewable competitors.
NARUC Assesses Challenges to Mending Utility Infrastructure
The debate over U.S. infrastructure hit home for the utility sector Wednesday in Los Angeles where a meeting of the nation’s state regulators dissected various aspects of a national challenge that runs through energy, water and telecommunications utilities just as readily as through city/county governments and state capitals. Part of the construction push will be in the gas pipeline sector, including added capacity from the Rockies and other regions, speakers said.
NARUC Looks at Mending Utility Infrastructure
The debate over U.S. infrastructure hit home for the utility sector last Wednesday in Los Angeles where a meeting of the nation’s state regulators dissected various aspects of a national challenge that runs through energy, water and telecommunications utilities just as readily as through city/county governments and state capitals. Part of the construction push will be in the gas pipeline sector, including added capacity from the Rockies and other regions, speakers said.
Gas Supply Growth, Price Stability Affirmed to NARUC
Natural gas growth potential and prospects for continued modest prices were talked up to a group of state regulatory commissioners meeting in Los Angeles Monday, following keynote addresses earlier in the day touting gas and all of its traditional and renewable competitors.
California Fracking Legislation Gets Senate Hearing
Rediscovered as an oil/gas industry practice that hasn’t been high on California’s radar, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is taking on a higher profile among state and local elected officials as the state’s legislature considers a new law (AB 591) that would require operators to disclose chemicals they use in the fracking process.
California Joins Push for Fracking Legislation
With both tight gas sands and oil shale development emerging in the state, a California legislator has introduced a bill (AB 591) seeking to require public disclosure of any chemicals used in oil/gas hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
Industry Brief
The nation’s largest municipal utility, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), said it will slash up to $440 million from its annual budgets during the next three years. With Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa making the disclosure, LADWP said it now will make deep budget cuts, complete with a hiring freeze, despite facing increased regulatory mandates in the climate change area, aging infrastructure in its $4 billion municipal system and major long-term investment needs. Villaraigosa said the LADWP and its new General Manager Ron Nichols have been “hard at work” to help sustain what the mayor called “fiscal sustainability” at the city-run utility. A “vigorous assessment” of potential savings opportunities focused on areas at LADWP that could be cut “without jeopardizing quality of service,” Villaraigosa said. LADWP is canceling noncritical facility upgrades and office remodeling, and various management perks are being cut, LADWP said. “Our customers are being forced to tighten their belts in this economy, and we need to be more frugal, too,” Nichols said.