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The Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York (IOGA) has submitted 119 pages of comments to the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), just before the deadline to comment on the proposed rules governing high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF).

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has released 90 pages of documents detailing proposed regulations governing high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF), and it has set the dates for a 30-day public comment period on the proposed rules. The action appeared to signal a long-awaited break in the state’s drilling moratorium.

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has released 90 pages of documents detailing proposed regulations governing high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF), and it has set the dates for a 30-day public comment period on the proposed rules. The action appeared to signal a long-awaited break in the state’s drilling moratorium.

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has released 90 pages of documents detailing proposed regulations governing high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF), and it has set the dates for a 30-day public comment period on the proposed rules. The action appeared to signal a long-awaited break in the state’s drilling moratorium.

A new investor presentation posted early Tuesday by Chesapeake Energy Corp. offered 32 pages of onshore production and financial numbers, as well as a full-page statement that opened the document with the headline, “It’s been a tough five weeks, but better days ahead.” By Tuesday afternoon the page, originally the second page of the 32-page presentation, had been deleted with no explanation.

Oil shale production’s impact on water supplies is potentially large but difficult to quantify and pinpoint, according to an official with the General Accountability Office (GAO) who testified Wednesday before a House natural resources subcommittee.

In releasing another 3,000 pages of data Monday on the San Bruno, CA, natural gas pipeline rupture and explosion last year, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it would make a report and final decision on the probable cause when the board meets Aug. 30 in Washington, DC.

In 16,000 pages of financial statements released last week to the bankruptcy court overseeing its case, Enron Corp. reported it now has $9 billion in the black ink column. However, of Enron’s $51.8 billion in listed assets, $35 billion is based on the “book” values dated before Enron filed for bankruptcy Dec. 2, 2001. The numbers used to establish the assets’ current values, including payments due from affiliates that now may be bankrupt, are not “wholly reliable,” Enron said, but to update all of them now would be “unduly burdensome and time consuming.” Nearly 50 Enron subsidiaries, many of them bankrupt, are expected to detail their financials in the next few days.

While the clocks tick and the calendar pages keep turning,California keeps churning out court and regulatory cases fasterthan legislative solutions for its nagging energy woes.