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Bloomberg Stunner: How Chesapeake Energy Paid Less Than a 1% Tax Rate On $5.5...
Chesapeake Energy, a company that is no stranger to financial scandals, has found itself on the front page of the financial papers again. This time, the subject is taxes. Or how Chesapeake barely pays...
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Deepening Doubts About Fracked Shale Gas Wells' Long Term Prospects
This month, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection released its bi-annual report on how much natural gas has been produced in the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation which stretches...
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Climate SOS Ends with Shale Gas Outrage, Autumn Begins with Global Frackdown
Global grassroots activism is heating up alongside a scarily ever-warming climate.Since the beginning of 2012, we've seen the Arab Spring, the Wisconsin Uprising, the Tar Sands Action, and the ongoing...
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Frackademia: Controversial SUNY Buffalo Shale Institute's Reputation Unraveling
A storm is brewing in Buffalo and it's not the record snow storm typically associated with upstate New York. Rather, it's taking place in the ivory tower of academia and revolves around hydraulic...
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Whitewash: SUNY Buffalo Defends Controversial Shale Gas Institute
On Friday, SUNY Buffalo's President's Office released a lengthy and long-awaited 162-page report upon request of the SUNY System Board of Trustees that delved into the substantive facts surrounding the...
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Chesapeake Energy Tied to Mansfield, OH Bill of Rights Astroturf Attack
The oil and gas industry is waging an 11th hour astroturf campaign in Mansfield, OH in an attempt to defeat the "Community Bill of Rights" referendum. A "yes" vote would, in effect, prohibit hydraulic...
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Shale Gas Bubble Bursting: Report Debunks "100 Years" Claim for Domestic...
Food and Water Watch (FWW) released a report today titled "U.S. Energy Security: Why Fracking for Oil and Natural Gas Is a False Solution." It shows, contrary to industry claims, there aren't 100 years...
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Locking in Dirty Energy Demand: GE Signs Deal with Clean Energy Fuels for...
On November 13, Clean Energy Fuels (CEF) signed a deal with General Electric (GE) to purchase its natural gas vehicle fueling assets in an effort to expand what it describes as "America’s Natural Gas...
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Shale Gas Bubble About to Burst: Art Berman, Bill Powers
Food and Water Watch recently demonstrated that the dominant narrative, "100 years" of unconventional oil and gas in the United States, is false. At most, some 50 years of this dirty energy resource...
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ALEC, CSG, ExxonMobil Fracking Fluid "Disclosure" Model Bill Failing By Design
Last year, a hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") chemical fluid disclosure "model bill" was passed by both the Council of State Governments (CSG) and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). It...
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ANGA Lobbyist Spins Through Revolving Door To Work For Fred Upton
The revolving door spins with rapidity in Washington following election season, and Tom Hassenboehler serves as an Exhibit A.Hassenboehler served for the past two years as a lobbyist for America's...
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Three States Pushing ALEC Bill To Require Teaching Climate Change Denial In...
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - known by its critics as a "corporate bill mill" - has hit the ground running in 2013, pushing "models bills" mandating the teaching of climate change...
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Ed Rendell Intervened For Oil Company to Stop EPA Contamination Case Against...
A breaking investigation by EnergyWire appears to connect the dots between shadowy lobbying efforts by shale gas fracking company Range Resources, and the Obama EPA's decision to shut down its...
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ALEC Sham Chemical Disclosure Model Tucked Into Illinois Fracking Bill
Illinois is the next state on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)'s target list for putting the oil industry's interests ahead of the public interest.98 percent funded by multinational...
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More Financial Worries Coming to Light in Domestic Shale Drilling Industry
Virtually anyone who has followed the onshore drilling bonanza knows the name Aubrey McClendon and the company he co-founded, Chesapeake Energy.McClendon was the hard-driving CEO and chairman of one of...
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Obama Admin. Approves ALEC Model Bill for Fracking Chemical Fluid Disclosure...
On May 16, the Obama Interior Department announced its long-awaited rules governing hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") on federal lands.As part of its 171-page document of rules, the U.S. Bureau of Land...
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Exclusive: Ousted Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon Launching Ohio Land...
Aubrey McClendon's penchant for "land grab"as a business model made the recently-ousted Chesapeake Energy CEO infamous - and he's at it again for his new start-up hydraulic fracturing ("fracking")...
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Urban Fracking Bonanza Threatens Dallas Suburbs
When a representative from Chesapeake Energy knocked on Phyllis Allen's door in 2003 and offered $300 for her mineral rights and an invitation to a lease-signing pizza party, she turned them down....
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Texas Fracking Bonanza: How Arlington Fell to the Frackers
Fort Worth was the first major city in America to allow extensive fracking within the city limits— but it wasn’t the last. Arlington, Texas, fell to the frackers next— only this time, the frackers were...
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Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon Buys Fracking Wells In Ohio's...
Former Chesapeake Energy CEO and Founder Aubrey McClendon is back in the hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") game in Ohio's Utica Shale in a big way, receiving a permit to frack five wells from the Ohio...
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