Politics

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has released a proposed rulemaking that would impose additional regulations on natural gas drillers using high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the state, and has scheduled a series of hearings on the proposed rulemaking.

Proving the common saying that region trumps party in Pennsylvania politics, a pair of Republican state representatives are proposing a severance tax on natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale.

A new dimension in international politics is being added to the marathon duel over rising tolls on TransCanada Corp.’s natural gas mainline to the United States and central Canada from Alberta.

With a sea change about to take place in Washington politics, the oil and natural gas industry and public utilities — hoping for the best but bracing for the worst — last week pledged to work with the new administration and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill.

With a sea change about to take place in Washington politics, the oil and natural gas industry and public utilities — hoping for the best but bracing for the worst — have pledged to work with the new administration and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill.

Critics of Canada’s energy industry and economic nationalists have been sent the message that markets, rather than politics, are still the drivers of energy policy north of the border through a National Energy Board (NEB) decision overruling objections and approving an export pipeline for oilsands production.

Canada’s Minster of Finance Brian Flaherty put politics aside on Tuesday, holding firm to a plan to begin taxing the distributable cash of income trusts in four years. The minister, who at times sparred with members of Parliament during hour-long testimony, also soundly rejected calls to exclude oil and natural gas income trusts from the proposal.

Aboriginal politics, formerly a lethal snare in northern Canada, will not be allowed to trip up the Mackenzie Gas Project, a ruling by the National Energy Board has confirmed.

Natural gas prices are skyrocketing on supply fears because the industry has done a poor job convincing America that there really is an abundant domestic gas resource that can be developed without harming the environment, according to Questar CEO Keith Rattie, who spoke at the annual GasMart conference in Denver.