Native Americans generally, and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe specifically, said on Friday they don’t intend to give up their opposition to the $6.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) project, which the Trump administration has fast-tracked into its final completion.
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Congressional Democrats Sympathetic to Dakota Access Opponents
In a Capitol Hill forum sponsored by a handful of Congressional Democrats on Thursday, lawmakers and Native American tribal leaders called for a halt to the $3.8 billion, nearly 1,200-mile Dakota Access oil pipeline now under construction in four states.
S&P: Marcellus Shale Output Rewriting Gas Flows, Pricing
Rapid development of the Marcellus Shale is attracting new exploration and production (E&P) activity, a trend that is affecting long-standing national and regional natural gas flows, as well as regional pricing, according to Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P).
S&P: Marcellus Shale Production Rewriting Gas Flows, Pricing
Rapid development of the Marcellus Shale is attracting new exploration and production (E&P) activity, a trend that is affecting long-standing national and regional gas flows, as well as regional pricing, according to a new report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P).
Urban Gas Storage Project Rejected in California
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) last week rejected by a 3-2 vote a long-standing proposal to develop an idle dry natural gas field into a 7.5 Bcf capacity underground storage project beneath a residential community in Sacramento.
Interior Seeks to Resolve Oil/Gas, Potash Conflict in New Mexico
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Thursday unveiled a draft secretarial order aimed at ending the long-standing conflict between the oil and natural gas industry and potash companies within the Secretary’s Potash Area (SPA) in Southeast New Mexico.
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has unveiled a draft secretarial order to end a long-standing conflict between the oil and natural gas industry, and potash companies, within the Secretary’s Potash Area (SPA) in Southeast New Mexico. An agreement leading up to the draft secretarial order required an “unprecedented level of cooperation” and proposes buffer zones between wells and potash mining operations that are designed to provide added protection to the resources. The draft order, published in the Federal Register, is open to a 30-day comment that began July 13. A final rule is expected this fall. The SPA contains deposits of both potash and oil and gas on more than 400,000 acres of land, most of which is managed by Interior’s Bureau of Land Management. It currently produces 75% of the potash mined in the United States and is also home to nearly 800 federal oil and gas leases. The draft order is available for review at www.blm.gov/nm.
Utah Resident Sues for Closed-Door Actions to Challenge BLM
A closed-door meeting held in Utah’s Uintah County earlier this year by officials from three states and industry representatives violated the state’s open meeting law because during the meeting officials mapped out strategies to challenge a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ruling to restrict oil shale development, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
California Regulators Reject Urban Gas Storage Project
The five-member California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Thursday denied a long-standing proposal to develop an idle dry natural gas field into an underground storage project beneath a residential community in Sacramento. CPUC members voted 3-2 against the 7.5 Bcf capacity independent project.
Fate of Planned Northwest Gas Pipeline in Doubt
A recent legal settlement may have cast further uncertainty on a long-standing proposal for the Palomar natural gas pipeline to bring Rockies gas west of the Cascade Mountains into Pacific Northwest population centers.