Campaign

Having outgrown its North Texas name and mission, a pro-natural gas effort spawned three years ago as an outgrowth of the shale revolution, has expanded into the statewide Texans for Natural Gas, claiming an online following of 220,000 supporters.

A group that includes six native Alaskan communities on the North Slope has joined an advertising campaign to persuade the Interior Department (DOI) to keep the Arctic Ocean in its proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program for 2017-2022.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton privately told union members last year that anti-fossil fuel protesters should “get a life,” and that the issue of fossil fuel extraction wasn’t high on her list of priorities, according to illegally hacked emails released by the group WikiLeaks.

Nearly one-dozen candidates plan to compete for the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) seat being vacated by current Chairman David Porter.

The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) and the INGAA Foundation have launched a campaign to get the word out about the necessity and virtues of the nation’s gas pipeline network. The effort comes at a time when shale gas-focused pipeline development has attracted increasing scrutiny from the public and politicians.

Polls show Pennsylvania’s Republican Gov.Tom Corbett narrowing the double-digit lead that Democratic challenger Tom Wolf has enjoyed for much of the campaign. The election has high stakes for the oil and gas industry as Wolf has pushed a severance tax and made energy reform a mainstay of his campaign.

Polls show Pennsylvania’s Republican Gov.Tom Corbett narrowing the double-digit lead that Democratic challenger Tom Wolf has enjoyed for much of the campaign. The election has high stakes for the oil and gas industry as Wolf has pushed a severance tax and made energy reform a mainstay of his campaign.

A coalition of seven conservation groups has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) allocation of more than 800,000 acres of federal lands in three western states to potential oil shale and tar sands development.

Output from the nation’s shale plays has ballooned domestic natural gas production over the past few years, but the industry, and the country, have yet to fully embrace all that the paradigm shift entails, said Rick Smead, a director in Navigant Consulting Inc.’s energy practice.