Urging

After a bruising ride on roller-coaster markets, the treasurer of Canada’s chief natural gas- and oil-producing jurisdiction is urging its residents to think about weaning public services off a reliance on resource windfalls.

After a bruising ride on roller-coaster markets, the treasurer of Canada’s chief natural gas- and oil-producing jurisdiction is urging its residents to think about weaning public services off a reliance on resource windfalls.

A pro-natural gas foundation is urging the federal government to emphasize gas-fired electric generation as the nation’s energy infrastructure plans are updated.

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is urging the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to adopt his proposal for an industry-funded program that would help pay for possible damages attributed to development in the Marcellus Shale.

A committee of West Virginia legislators has finalized a compromise Marcellus Shale regulatory reform bill and is urging Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to call a special session for its passage.

A committee of West Virginia legislators has finalized a compromise Marcellus Shale regulatory reform bill and is urging Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to call a special session for its passage.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) plans to launch an ad campaign Tuesday urging members of the joint House-Senate super-committee not to raise taxes for the oil and natural gas industry.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) is urging the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to reject proposals to ban horizontal drilling in the 1.1-million-acre George Washington National Forest (GWNF) in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. API said a ban would amount to “an arbitrary and unprecedented shift in national energy policy through the forest management planning process.”

Elected officials from a wealthy Pittsburgh suburb are urging their constituents to vote against a controversial referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot that would ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking) over fears that its passage would put the suburb in the crosshairs for lawsuits and undermine its drilling ordinance.