Mining

Irish ex patriot journalist/filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer call their project “the film that will tell the truth about fracking,” on their website, which includes the slogan, “There are two sides to every story, and then there is the truth.”

In a case that potentially has an impact on oil, gas and future mineral development on federal lands, the state of Wyoming and the Colorado Mining Association last Monday jointly requested an en banc rehearing by the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.

In a case that potentially has an impact on oil, gas and future mineral development on federal lands, the state of Wyoming and the Colorado Mining Association on Monday jointly requested an en banc rehearing by the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.

Wyoming and other states are being proactive in ensuring safety and environmental compliance in the energy production ongoing in their jurisdictions, including the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the shale gas production areas, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead reiterated Wednesday at a news conference in which he answered questions related to a letter he and 16 other Republican governors sent earlier in the month to President Obama.

New York Gov. David Paterson’s proposed plans to lay off hundreds of state employees could be scuttled at the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)if permitting fees from new Marcellus Shale wells were dedicated to staffing, the Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York (IOGA) said Monday.

Key Democrats Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV and Rep. Nick Rahall, who are both from the coal-mining state of West Virginia, introduced legislation last Thursday to suspend for two years potential Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from stationary sources, such as coal-fired power plants.

Is BHP Billiton, the global Australian mining and energy giant, down to its last strike in California after two state agencies turned an emphatic thumbs down on the company’s proposed $800 million, 800 MMcf/d offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal? That’s the salient question hovering over the Southern California coast as BHP’s permitting and appeals processes play out.

The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has received aplum from a favorite son, new Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, whoannounced the award of a $1.5 million DOE contract to determine thebest way to boost gas production from some of New Mexico’s mostdifficult geologic formations.