Google Under Pressure to Recognize Anti-Fracking Activism as Fake News
Nationwide Petition Encourages Powerful Search Engine to Act
DALLAS, May 11, 2017 / PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following Google's recent announcement that the company is making changes to its search engine algorithm to combat "the spread of blatantly misleading, low quality, offensive or downright false information," FrackFeed penned an open letter to Google asking the company to flag the misleading content on anti-fracking websites as fake news. FrackFeed is a project of Texans for Natural Gas, a pro-drilling advocacy group.
Read moreMassive Economic Benefits from Texas LNG Export Facilities
Pro-energy, grassroots group launches petition to support natural gas exports from the Port of Brownsville
A new report from Texans for Natural Gas provides a guide to the seven liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities that are currently proposed or under construction in Texas. America’s surplus of natural gas due to innovations in fracking and horizontal drilling, along with rising global demand, has made the Gulf Coast a prime location for LNG export facilities. The report, entitled “LNG Facilities in Texas: A Primer,” takes a closer look at these Texas projects and compiles data on their total economic impact.
Read moreUSGS: Gulf Coast’s Bossier and Haynesville Formations Hold America’s Largest Continuous Natural Gas Resources
According to two new assessments from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Bossier and Haynesville Formations that stretch across the Gulf Coast, from Florida through East Texas and South Texas, are estimated to hold 304.4 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas. These estimates represent the “largest continuous natural gas assessment” ever conducted by the agency in the United States – a finding so large it prompted Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to tweet, HUGE!
Read morePoll: Support for Fracking Increased Since Trump’s Election
A new poll from the University of Texas finds more Americans support fracking than oppose it, and that support has grown since the Presidential election in November 2016.
According to the poll, 43 percent of Americans support fracking. That’s a three point jump from the poll’s findings last fall, and slightly higher than the 42 percent of Americans who say they oppose fracking. Support for fracking has increased by three percentage points since the fall, while opposition has fallen three points.
Texas Pipeline Protesters Ask for ‘Help with Gas’ to Travel to Kansas
Environmental activists in West Texas announced this week that they are relocating to Kansas after failing to stop the Trans-Pecos Pipeline. The announcement comes just months after activists bragged that they were bringing in people from North Dakota to try to shut down energy development in Texas.
Read moreEnergy Department Credits Natural Gas for Declining Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that energy-related carbon dioxide emissions fell by 2.7 percent in 2015, thanks in large part to increased use of natural gas.
Read moreOut of State Activists Campaigning against Texas Natural Gas Exports
This week, at an event hosted by the Sierra Club-backed “Save the RGV from LNG” campaign, two anti-gas activists from Oregon and Maryland spoke about their efforts to halt U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. Promoted as a way to “build a resistance” against the three planned LNG export terminals at the Port of Brownsville, the event is another example of out of state activists misleading local Texas communities to promote the anti-fossil fuel “Keep It In the Ground” agenda.
Read moreStudy Shows Methane in North Texas Water Wells Is Natural, Not from Fracking
A new peer reviewed study from the University of Texas found that methane in well water from Parker County and Hood County is naturally occurring, and not a result of fracking in North Texas’ Barnett Shale. Notably, the Parker-Hood Cluster has been at the center of the debate on methane contamination from hydraulic fracturing for years, but this finding solidly puts to rest any activist claims that fracking was involved.
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