Fight

Eight members of Congress have told President Obama that the United States’ national security interests are dependent on natural gas, and urged the president to support efforts to expand exploration, development and production, especially through hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

Acting West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin last week said he would continue to fight for the state’s huge coal industry, but he also urged state residents to embrace the opportunities that would come from natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. However, producers face soaring drilling fees under draft legislation expected to be considered by lawmakers.

Acting West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Wednesday night said he would continue to fight for the state’s huge coal industry, but he also urged state residents to embrace the opportunities that would come from natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale.

Changes to Louisiana law that would tax the lateral portions of horizontal wells have the state’s producer community ready to fight, but parish tax assessors say laterals should have been taxable all along.

Changes to Louisiana law that would tax the lateral portions of horizontal wells have the state’s producer community ready to fight, but parish tax assessors say laterals should have been taxable all along.

National Fuel Marketing Co. LLC (NFM) and affiliates have vowed to fight in court FERC allegations that NFM used its affiliates in an unlawful scheme to secure a larger allocation of “scarce and valuable” interstate natural gas transportation capacity on Cheyenne Plains Natural Gas Co. pipeline than the Denver-based company could have acquired on its own.

While the “Pickens Army” continues to add new members daily to fight for the cause of energy independence in the United States, billionaire T. Boone Pickens said last week the recent drop in energy commodity prices — especially natural gas — has led him to scale back his mammoth wind farm project in Texas.

While the “Pickens Army” continues to add new members daily to fight for the cause of energy independence in the United States, billionaire T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday the recent drop in energy commodity prices — especially natural gas — has led him to scale back his mammoth wind farm project in Texas.

The Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel (OCC) continues to fight the migration of distribution system cost recovery from volumetric to fixed charges. This time it’s a plan by Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio that the OCC is resisting.