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Print Email Save More Sharing ServicesShare UNCONVENTIONAL OIL RESOURCES NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME BRAD MILLER, REPRESENTATIVE, HOUSE Congressional Press Releases May 10, 2012 For Immediate Release Unconventional Oil Resources Not Ready for Primetime Contact: Kristin Kopshever (202) 225-6375 Kristin.Kopshever@mail.house.gov May 10, 2012 (Washington, DC) – Today the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology`s Subcommittee on Energy and Environment held a hearing entitled, “Supporting American Jobs and the Economy Through Expanded Energy Production: Challenges and Opportunities of Unconventional Resources Technology.“ The purpose of the hearing was to examine challenges and opportunities associated with expanding development and use of a range of unconventional oil and gas resources. However, the majority of the hearing discussion was focused on the development of oil shale.
May 10, 2012
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UNCONVENTIONAL OIL RESOURCES NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME
BRAD MILLER, REPRESENTATIVE, HOUSE
Congressional Press Releases
May 10, 2012
For Immediate Release
Unconventional Oil Resources Not Ready for Primetime
Contact: Kristin Kopshever (202) 225-6375 Kristin.Kopshever@mail.house.gov
May 10, 2012
(Washington, DC) – Today the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology`s Subcommittee on Energy and Environment held a hearing entitled, “Supporting American Jobs and the Economy Through Expanded Energy Production: Challenges and Opportunities of Unconventional Resources Technology.“ The purpose of the hearing was to examine challenges and opportunities associated with expanding development and use of a range of unconventional oil and gas resources. However, the majority of the hearing discussion was focused on the development of oil shale.
Kinder Morgan’s Big Bet on Drilling Boom – NYTimes.com
December 16, 2011
Kinder Morgan’s Big Bet on Drilling Boom – NYTimes.com.
Kinder’s Major Bet on a Boom in Fracking
Jim Wilson/The New York Times
The Bakken Shale formation in North Dakota, one of several shale fields whose growth could help an expanded Kinder Morgan.
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Published: December 15, 2011
HOUSTON — The oil and gas business is full of gamblers who drill deep and often, praying for gushers but frequently ending up with dry holes.
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Times Topic: Kinder Morgan Inc.
Kinder Morgan
Kinder Morgan’s Rockies Express pipeline runs 1,679 miles from Colorado to Eastern Ohio. and can transport 1.8 billion cubic feet a day.
Then there is Richard D. Kinder, chief executive of Kinder Morgan, who has personally made billions of dollars operating the industry’s equivalent of a toll road: pipelines.
Now, with Kinder Morgan’s $21 billion deal to buy a leading rival, the El Paso Corporation, he is doubling down.
Hydraulic fracturing techniques — despite causing a growing controversy — are creating a once-in-a-generation boom in oil and gas drilling in the United States, and the opportunity to build many more pipelines to carry new supplies to market.
Public concerns about the environmental risks posed by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, raise the possibility of tough new restrictions, higher costs and even outright bans on new wells in some areas. But companies like Kinder Morgan and its competitors think the need for new energy sources means pipelines are a relatively low-risk way to play the boom.
If they are right, Kinder Morgan will collect new tolls for decades, along with the ones it is already pocketing.
Energy Tax Policy: Issues in the 111th Congress CRS Report
February 12, 2011
Failures of State/Federal Government in Protecting Communities and Environment
December 14, 2010
- 109th Congress Energy Policy Act 2005, Title III, Section 327 exempted the use of fracking fluids from Safe Drinking Water Act (SWDA).
- The current 111th congress has let HR 2766 and S 1215 (bills that remove the fracking fluids exemption from the SDWA) stagnate in committee.
- NYS ECL Article 23, Title 3, Section 23-0303 removed home rule from local communities.
- NYS ECL Article 23, Title 9, Section 23-0901 specifies Compulsory Integration.
- NYS DEC issued dGEIS 30-Sep-09 containing several shortcomings/flaws that do not protect our environment.
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