Fairmount Santrol faces international corruption charges
Proppant producer Fairmount Santrol is being investigated by federal regulators under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. 1977 over alleged instances of bribery. The $828.7 million company, whose global...
View ArticleU.S. presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, calls for national ban on fracking
Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, reiterated his opposition to fracking while addressing the crowds in Binghamton, New York on Monday. Accompanied by the high-profile anti-fracker Josh...
View ArticleAustralian Northern Territory presses on with fracking regulation
Speaking at a recent LNG conference in Perth, Australia, Northern Territory Deputy Chief Minister Peter Styles said that the Alan Hawke report into hydraulic fracturing, which argued that shale...
View ArticleEU Regulators sue Poland over lax environmental laws regarding shale
The European Commission has taken Poland to the European Courts of Justice because it believes Polish environmental laws governing the exploration of shale resources are too lax. The source of the...
View ArticleEPA’s key methane reduction measures met with criticism form the industry
Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the pre-publication version of its final New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) rulemaking to reduce emissions of methane and...
View ArticleCanada: New Brunswick extends indefinitely moratorium on fracking
Canadian province New Brunswick has decided that the moratorium on fracking, imposed by the province’s Liberal government, will remain in place indefinitely. In 2014, New Brunswick government...
View ArticleGermany agrees on a fracking ban but environmentalists still not happy
Germany took another step towards joining France in banning hydraulic fracturing. The country is the largest energy consumer in Europe and holds between 0.32 trillion and 2.03 trillion cubic metres of...
View ArticleIndia to move to production sharing contracts ahead of new licencing round
India needs energy and its stepping up its game to tap into its increasingly attractive-looking domestic resources. According to an official in the Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry, the...
View ArticleBrexit and UK shale industry. What will happen now?
While most eyes in the UK are currently trained on 10 Downing Street awaiting the new Prime Minister Theresa May to take office, many within the oil and gas sector wonder what the post-Brexit world ......
View ArticleUK: New PM scrapps Department of Energy and Climate Change – what does this...
In a decision branded by her opponents as “plain stupid” the UK’s new Prime Minister, Theresa May, scrapped the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) replacing it with the newly-formed...
View ArticlePennsylvania shale gas impact fees will continue to slide – report predicts
The impact fee collected in Pennsylvania – the home of the prolific Marcellus shale formation – is expected to drop yet again after it fell in 2015 due to low oil and gas prices, according ... Read...
View ArticleUK: New PM announces plans of payments to families affected by fracking
On Sunday, Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May announced plans for households affected by shale development to receive direct financial compensation – a move immediately blasted by the green lobby...
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