Many more states could collect billions of dollars in energy-related revenue if they and the feds allowed more drilling on state and federal lands and offshore.
The story begins in 1992, when an army unit from Lanzhou in neighbouring Gansu province, drilling with state permission, made a decent oil find in Jingbian county.
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While the Administration has some ability to affect oil drilling on state and private lands (e.g. indirectly via EPA rules and regulations), most of its authority is limited to Federal lands.
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Among that agency's tasks is to study whether there is a way to make drilling legal in state parks a proposal that has riled environmental groups.
If the companies misled investors as to how its wells were likely to perform, or failed to disclose the true costs of drilling, the state of New York could lose some of its investment.
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As the Cuomo administration has more recently pursued an agenda that includes rewriting state law regarding abortions to codify it with federal standards, and has delayed a decision on whether to allow a controversial form of natural-gas drilling in the state, voters have come to believe they perceive a shift in the governor's ideology.
It would hand state legislatures drilling authority and half of any federal royalties or revenues from drilling.
Many in tourist-dependent Florida would oppose drilling close to the state's western coast.
The research outfit reports that thanks to the innovation of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling on private and state lands, the U.S. in fiscal 2012 produced 6.2 million barrels of oil daily, up from 5.1 million barrels as recently as fiscal 2007.
He said he accepts the state finding that drilling didn't cause the problem, but that authorities are still trying to find solution for the people who say their water is undrinkable.
The company has not admitted liability and still faces claims from the US and state governments, and drilling firms.
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The commission had required drilling operators to disclose to the state what chemicals they are injecting into the ground during fracking.
The debate should be over anyway, say both state regulators and the drilling company Rex Energy, because multiple independent reviews found no contamination from drilling at all.
But many municipalities in Pennsylvania have leased smaller parcels or have debated doing so, and the state has also signed drilling leases for public forests and game lands.
While students across the state have spent hours drilling for the annual tests, a small but vocal group of parents is planning to boycott them, saying those hours could have been better spent.
In the past couple of years, dozens of localities, anticipating that the state will eventually allow drilling, have enacted local bans or moratoriums on drilling at the request of residents who have petitioned town boards saying such heavy industrial activity is inconsistent with the community character and that they fear potential health and environmental risks.
Our plan is to repeat the success of Ghana by drilling wells in the remote Eastern Equatoria State where the majority of the people suffering from this disease live.
He says he would reverse a recent decision by Petrobras, the state oil company, to buy drilling platforms from Singapore.
The Nature Conservancy is examining potential effects from gas drilling and wind turbines on an eight-state region from New York to Tennessee.
He engineered a risky and counterintuitive strategy: Instead of mounting a frontal assault on BP, he sued its drilling contractors, Halliburton and Transocean, in state court in Delaware, where they are incorporated.
Infrared cameras on a boat accompanying the rig as it was being towed detected no signs of leakage early Monday, according to the unified incident response command, which includes the Coast Guard, Alaska's state environmental conservation department, a drilling company and Kodiak Island officials.
Gas drilling company Lenape Resources, based in western New York, had sued the Livingston County town of Avon and the state Department of Environmental Conservation over the town's moratorium on drilling, saying the action threatened to put it out of business after it had operated in the town for decades.
The complex deepwater drilling recently perfected by Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled company, has suddenly raised the prospect of Brazil becoming one of the world's biggest producers.
Joe Co. against Transocean over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill back to state court, raising the odds the drilling company will be dragged into litigation it was hoping to avoid.
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The state government is reviewing the environmental impact of drilling in the Marcellus Shale.
There is a similar challenge over Longmont's own drilling regulations, which are more stringent than even the state's new ones.
In Pittsburgh, the cradle of the American energy industry in the 19th century, banned new drilling projects within city limits in 2010, but the state is challenging the authority of cities to issue such bans.
The Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates mining in the state, gave UEC the permit to do exploratory drilling at Goliad.
This despite the fact that all shelf acreage outside of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi is under drilling moratorium, and opening it would require both congressional and state-by-state approval.
Unless preps are near state grammar schools and hence have a secure niche drilling children for the 11-plus exams, they may seek to merge with secondary schools, which can then market an all-through education insulated from the vicissitudes of competitive entry at 11 or 13 years of age.
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