by Sean O'Leary | Feb 10, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
NEW REPORT: NATURAL GAS COUNTIES’ ECONOMIES SUFFERED AS PRODUCTION BOOMED Since the start of the fracking boom, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia’s biggest gas-producing counties have seen declines in their share of jobs, income, and population February 10,...
by Eric de Place | Feb 9, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Before you get behind the wheel of a car, you’re required to have auto insurance. It costs a few bucks, especially for bad drivers, but everyone understands that insurance is a commonsense way to protect the public from the costs of accidents. It’s too bad...
by Sean O'Leary | Feb 8, 2021 | Natural Gas, Reports
Download report Since the start of the fracking boom, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia’s biggest gas-producing counties have seen declines in their share of jobs, income, and population. A new Ohio River Valley Institute report titled, “Appalachia’s...
by Martina Angela Caretta and Erin Brock Carlson | Feb 5, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. More than 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines run throughout the United States. In Appalachia, they spread like spaghetti across the region. Many...
by Eric de Place | Jan 22, 2021 | Clean Energy, Natural Gas
Biden’s first fracking test. That’s what the Wall Street Journal editorial board calls the incoming administration’s decision about a port project on the Delaware River. Yet the decision is not about fracking at all. At least not directly. It is, rather, about whether...
by Eric de Place | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
If you watched the presidential debates or listened to political advertisements in Pennsylvania, you might be forgiven for thinking that fracking enjoys strong support with voters. President Trump attacked Joe Biden vociferously and repeatedly (and falsely) for...
by Sean O'Leary | Oct 30, 2020 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Tim Puko of the Wall Street Journal recently reported that President Trump is weighing an executive order to study the economic impacts of fracking. The order, if issued less than a week before election day, will be a transparent attempt to contrast the president’s...
by Eric de Place | Oct 16, 2020 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
October 22, 1944 was an ordinary Friday in Cleveland until 2:40 in the afternoon. That’s when liquefied natural gas (LNG) that had quietly seeped from a storage tank into the city’s sewer lines exploded with staggering force. The blast sent steel manhole covers...
by Ted Boettner | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
While West Virginians are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and trying to figure out if their kids can attend school, the oil and gas industry is working with the West Virginia State Tax Department to cut its property taxes by as much as $62 million per year. Last...
by Ted Boettner | Sep 22, 2020 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
“If our economy seems to be growing but that growth is not sustainable because we are destroying the environment and using up scarce natural resources, our statistics should warn us. But because GDP didn’t include resource depletion and environmental...
