Oil and gas companies use traditional horizontal drilling techniques to bore into the land were gas is trapped.
Money manager Adam Newar with Eden Capital Management in Houston likes Nabors Industries and Patterson Energy, which focus on drilling low-risk gas wells on land.
Plattsburgh Press-Republican and Glens Falls Chronicle outdoors columnist Dan Ladd said he understands the need for DEC to control information on contentious topics such as hydrofracturing for natural gas and state land deals, but not those related to hunting and fishing.
That's where Mr. Romney got his accurate figures on oil and gas production on government land and permitting in Mr. Obama's first term.
FracFocus was created to address a very specific issue that had been raised by environmental groups: Several years ago, there was supposedly a hue and cry from landowners wanting to know the chemical content of the frac fluids that were going down oil and gas wells on their land or on adjacent lands.
They particularly dislike his plans to reduce their share of gas revenues and to impose land reform.
As a matter of fact, oil production is down 14 percent this year on federal land, and gas production is down 9 percent.
Traversing their land is a natural gas pipeline, 36 inches in diameter and 6 feet underground.
But those companies are struggling to set up power plants quickly amid shortages of coal and natural gas and long delays in acquiring land.
More specifically, they think they should get more cash for gas pumped from beneath their ancestral land, and they are wont to blow up pipelines when more cash is not forthcoming.
Mr. President, all of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land, not on government land.
Their policies in terms of land use regulation and greenhouse gas emissions will make it even harder for existing factories, warehouses, homebuilders and other traditional employers of the middle- or working class.
This at a time when permitting of offshore drilling has been slowed to a near halt, oil rigs are being displaced to foreign locations by government regulators, and vast land and ocean oil and gas reservoirs, including oil shale deposits, have been put off-limits altogether.
High oil prices and dwindling land reserves are pushing oil and gas companies to exploit hydrocarbon reserves that lie deep under the ocean.
Investors flock to Gujarat, Mr Modi says, for its well-built roads, the quick allocation of land, the plentiful supplies of gas, electricity and efficient bureaucratic support.
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The folks in Boulder County, Colorado were unfortunately able to see this phenomenon play out first hand on December 4 at a public hearing regarding proposed land use regulations for oil and gas development that are under consideration by the Boulder County Board of Commissioners.
And what's the administration's take on the proposal to open up federal land to more exploration of oil, gas and coal?
While land-grabs and exploration for natural gas and renewables continues across the natural landscape, prospecting for a different prize has gradually taken hold in the built environment.
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But in 2007, their partner wanted to speculate on Southern Tier land as news of a vast natural gas reserve grew and new technology to extract it was developed.
Relatively recent massive discoveries show that a whopping 80% of its 87, 000 sq km of land contains coal and 50% contains natural gas reserves.
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Energy companies, which say they are being responsible stewards of the land, have rushed to unlock the natural gas lying in the shale beneath Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
It increases state control over the economy, limits the size of big land holdings and redistributes revenues from the important gas fields in the eastern lowlands to poorer parts of the nation.
Based in Houston, Forum Energy makes products and parts used in land-based and offshore oil-and-gas exploration and development.
"On that land someone's got to build hotels, gas stations, stores, " he says.
Almost immediately upon taking office, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar began withdrawing tracts of public land that had already been approved for oil and gas leasing.
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Clearing land to plant food for biofuel releases the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) through ploughing and can involve deforestation, which reduces the "carbon sinks" - the trees that absorb CO2.
Instruct whomever becomes Interior Secretary to recognize that the states can do a far better, more efficient job of regulating hydraulic fracturing, and the oil and natural gas industry in general, than his or her Bureau of Land Mangement (BLM) can.
Recently, Indonesia's government announced a two-year moratorium on primary forest and peat land conversion as part of its commitment to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Big business -- namely, the gas industry -- is aggressively objecting to the allegation in "Promised Land" that fracking poses environmental and health risks.
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