Tag: Marcellus Shale

  • Jobs, Prosperity and Security Via Oil Exports

    Jobs, Prosperity and Security Via Oil Exports

    ENDING THE ANTIQUATED BAN ON OIL EXPORTS WILL ALSO SPUR U.S. PRODUCTION AND KEEP OIL PRICES LOW by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Nov. 9, 2014) — The midterm elections underscore how much Americans value energy, job and economic revival – and how much they want less Washington control of their lives, livelihoods, and dreams for their children…

  • What Really Drives Anti-Fracking Zealots?

    What Really Drives Anti-Fracking Zealots?

    THEY WANT TO END FOSSIL FUELS AND CAPITALISM, CONTROL OUR LIVES AND IMPOSE ECO-UTOPIA by Paul Driessen, ©2014, CFACT.org (Sep. 21, 2014) — Recent news stories underscore the tremendous benefits brought by America’s fracking revolution. * The shale oil production boom could boost US crude production to 9.5 million barrels of oil per day (bopd)…

  • Fracking – Clean and Green

    Fracking – Clean and Green

    HATRED OF HYDROCARBONS DOES NOT EXCUSE FRACKOPHOBES FROM LEARNING FACTS OR SPEAKING FACTUALLY by Deroy Murdock, ©2014 (Feb. 5, 2014) — Williamsport, PA. The only thing deeper than a natural-gas well is the ignorance of the anti-fracking crowd. Fracking – formally called hydraulic fracturing – involves briefly pumping water, sand and chemicals into shale formations far…

  • Fracking: An Existential Threat to Green Dogma

    MISLEADING CLAIMS ABOUT SHALE GAS DEVELOPMENT SERVE DOGMA BUT NOT THE PUBLIC INTEREST by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Mar. 28, 2012) — The Sierra Club and other environmental pressure groups are redoubling their efforts to “stop fracking in its tracks.” No wonder. The technology is an existential threat to fundamental “green” dogmas. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing…