Sentences with phrase «gas drilling leases»

The New York Times recently shed light on yet another important aspect of gas drilling leases, that U.S. Department of Agriculture rural housing loans are being routinely granted on properties with oil and gas leases using a so - called «categorical exclusion» from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), although such exclusions are only supposed to apply to properties without environmental risks.

«Homeowners and Gas Drilling Leases: Boom or Bust?»

While Cuomo says go it's OK to proceed cautiously, some landowners with gas drilling leases are growing impatient for fracking to begin.

Some landowners with gas drilling leases are growing impatient.

They include land owners in the Marcellus Shale region with gas drilling leases and workers who live in New York but have jobs that are dependent on gas drilling elsewhere.

While Cuomo says it is okay to proceed cautiously, some landowners with gas drilling leases are growing impatient for fracking to begin.

Not exact matches

The plan would open the door for drilling in areas far beyond the U.S. epicenter of offshore drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico, giving oil and gas companies the opportunity to explore areas left out of leases for decades.

She signed her own gas lease to allow fracking on the farm near Ulster, pocketing $ 13,600 starting back in 2006, but no company drilled on her land.

In Bradford County, the pleasant pond at the vacation home of Truman and Bonnie Burnett is a murky swamp, ringed by dead trees, after tens of thousands of gallons of drilling fluid spilled in 2009 from the property of their neighbor, who had signed a gas lease.

On Tuesday, the administration announced that it will sell leases for nearly 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling — the largest offering ever.

Expanding offshore drilling April 28 In the same executive order, Trump ordered the Department of the Interior to create a new five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf for oil and gas exploration.

(Others in Dimock claim they were told that if they refused to sign a lease, gas would be taken out from under their land anyway, since under Pennsylvania law a well drilled on a leased piece of property can capture gas from neighboring, unleased properties.)

The original shale gas play, the one that kicked off the shale drilling bonanza a decade ago but then went into decline, is getting a new lease on life.

One of those items was a five - year lease plan from the Department of Interior, for the years 2017 through 2022, which includes territories the federal government plans on auctioning off for oil and gas drilling on the outer continental shelf.

This startling documentary follows Josh Fox, who's asked to lease his land to a gas company so they can drill for natural gas.

Release of the master plan comes as the federal government, even as it forges ahead on offshore wind leases, also has released plans to open nearly the entire U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling.

The two plaintiffs in the case hold drilling leases with two gas companies, Norse and Chesapeake.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. is pushing Ohio landowners to accept revised lease contracts that would help the cash - strapped driller save money while holding on to its prized oil and gas fields.

«The Minerals Management Service was set to finalize the sales of leases for exploratory oil and gas drilling off the coast of Alaska,» says Andrew Wetzler, director of the NRDC's Endangered Species Project.

Although most oil and gas activities are now occurring only in the Beaufort Sea, primarily near Prudhoe Bay, there has been a recent lease sale in the Chukchi Sea, NOAA notes, and the agency expects oil exploration and drilling to increase there.

The story takes place in a rural New England town, where oil company workers Steve and Sue (Damon and McDormand) are trying to secure the leases needed to drill for natural gas.

In order to drill in offshore federal waters, companies bid on leases that grant them the rights to oil and gas production.

But that is fine, I will just drill more oil / gas wells on my little lease because these policies simply ensure high and higer prices.

We thought it would be useful for folks to see where all the oil and gas leases are in the county, relative to the Marcellus Shale gas drilling and fracking that has already happened.

Seismic airgun surveys are the first step toward offshore drilling, of course, but under the current five - year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas leasing program adopted by the Obama Administration, the Atlantic can not be considered for drilling.

They are used to concoct and justify energy and economic policies, ranging from delays and bans on oil and gas leasing and drilling, to the war on coal mining and use, and diehard opposition to hydraulic fracturing and the Keystone XL pipeline.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new offshore oil and gas plan from the U.S. Department of the Interior blocks two drilling leases in the Arctic, but allows a new lease in Alaska's Cook Inlet and 10 new leases in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years — a step that will worsen climate change by ensuring significant greenhouse gas pollution for the next 70 years.

At retirement, I was President of a sizable energy company that included a stable of 23 renewable energy plants, an oil and gas drilling and production subsidiary, a natural gas trading subsidiary and various other diverse operations including such unlikely endeavors as airliner leasing and even a large pistachio farm.

Oil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussed.

«The BLM's environmental analysis for the March lease sale completely fails to quantify of the very real, direct greenhouse gas emissions that will result from allowing these areas to be drilled and fracked and both analyses fail to quantify cumulative impacts from greenhouse gases.

Environmental groups and three Montana landowners sued Tuesday to cancel hundreds of recent oil and gas lease sales, saying the U.S. government's leasing of public lands is skyrocketing without understanding how all that drilling will affect water quality and climate change.

The president also calls for expanding cheap leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands, along nearly all our coastlines and on lands set aside to protect endangered wildlife.

America has vast reserves of predictable shale gas, much of which is only being lightly drilled to hold expensive leases.

About 100 miles south of the storied Drake Well, in 2004, Range drilled the first gas well into the shale on leased farmland in Mount Pleasant Township.

Early excerpts from the platform appear flush with Mitt Romney's positions in calling for drilling in ANWR (which would require congressional approval), opening more coastal regions to oil - and - gas leasing, and other policies.

(5) Whenever, before or during the drilling of a well not within the boundaries of an operating coal mine, the well operator encounters conditions of a nature which renders drilling of the bore hole or a portion thereof impossible, or more hazardous than usual, the well operator, upon verbal notice to the department, may immediately plug all or part of the bore hole, if drilling has occurred, and commence a new bore hole not more than 50 feet from the old bore hole if the location of the new bore hole does not violate section 3215 (relating to well location restrictions) and, in the case of a well subject to act of July 25, 1961 (P.L. 825, No. 359), known as the Oil and Gas Conservation Law, if the new location complies with existing laws, regulations and spacing orders and the new bore hole is at least 330 feet from the nearest lease boundary.

Since 2008, we have been challenging in court a massive Bush - era lease sale that opened nearly 30 million acres in the Chukchi Sea — previously free of oil and gas leases — to oil drilling.

More: Department of the Interior, Time, Wikipedia Department of the Interior Dept of Interior Cancels Bush Administration Oil Shale Leasing Plans Renewable Energy Development to be a «Top Priority» for Department of Interior Dept of Interior to Re-Review Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Controversial Oil & Natural Gas Leases on Utah Public Land Cancelled by Dept of Interior

But because the gas industry had a head start on its critics, and was willing to spend huge sums to influence local and state politicians, fracking was soon firmly ensconced in places like Pennsylvania, which was even leasing state forest land for drilling.

via: Washington Post, NRDC Oil & Gas Exploration Judge Temporarily Halts Oil & Gas Leasing on Utah Public Lands Bush Administration to Open Public Lands Near Utah's National Parks for Natural Gas and OIl Drilling Student Monkey - Wrench Raises Bids, Then Funds, for Utah Land Leases

More: NRDC US Public Lands Bush Administration to Open Public Lands Near Utah's National Parks for Natural Gas and Oil Drilling Student Monkey - Wrencher Raises Bids, Then Funds, For Utah Land Leases New Solar Energy Applications Will Continue to be Accepted by BLM

Well, this one starts by opening up the North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, clearing the way for oil shale development on public lands, and allowing offshore drilling on heretofore off - limits areas of the Atlanta and Pacific coasts - including, of course, California.

Tags: 5 year program, Atlantic Ocean, BOEM, Bureau of Energy Management, Deepwater Horizon, Georgia, Hands Across the Sand, lease sale, methane hydrate, natural gas, North Carolina, Offshore Drilling, Oil Spill, South Carolina, Virginia

The topic is increasingly in the spotlight as the land grab for gas leases — by drilling companies seeking to tap shale deposits via high - volume, hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling (fracking)-- continues through New York State and the nation.

Experienced in the purchase and sale of both oil and gas properties and midstream assets, the arriving group's knowledge also covers a full range of oil and gas exploration and development agreements such as leases, joint operating agreements, production sharing agreements and drilling contracts.

Typical claims litigated include disputes relating to price redetermination provisions, oil and gas royalty obligations, representations and warranties, purchase price adjustments, take or pay provisions, capital contribution obligations, oil and gas well drilling obligations, implied lease covenants, delivery of goods requirements, force majeure provisions, right of first refusal and other preferential rights provisions, trade secret protection, contract termination provisions, indemnity obligations, fiduciary obligation, and corporate and partnership governance issues.

Over the course of his career, Darin has worked on lease priority disputes, surface use agreements, farmout agreements, joint operating agreements, unit operations, royalty disputes, drilling contracts, joint interest accounting, NEPA compliance, and various other aspects of oil and gas operations in the Rockies, in addition to general commercial litigation.

Florida can now refuse to grant leases to drill for oil or natural gas in our coastal waters, but putting a drilling ban in our Constitution is more permanent.

Acquired and executed new leases to drill oil and gas wells or renewed existing leases with leaseholders.

Covers the historical basis of wealth related to minerals, types of ownership, types of conveyances and title transfers, curing land titles and the oil and gas lease, pooling, exploration and drilling, fracking, and the state and federal laws governing oil and gas ownership and development.