EPA: Methane Emissions from Fracking Are Still Declining
New data released today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show that methane emissions from oil and natural gas systems have fallen for at least the third year in a row, even as domestic production has boomed thanks to technologies like fracking and horizontal drilling.
Read moreReport: Natural Gas Development Saves Texas Water
A new report from North Texans for Natural Gas shows how increased natural gas use in Texas will help the state save billions of gallons of water per year, rebutting a common claim from drilling critics. The report also shows that the fracking process accounts for only one-half of one percent (0.5 percent) of the state’s total water usage.
Read moreEPA’s New Methane Mandates on Fracking Are a Solution in Search of a Problem
Remarks as prepared for delivery, public hearing held by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New and Modified Sources”
Dallas, Texas
September 23, 2015
Read moreTexans Highlight How Extreme Drilling Setbacks Threaten Private Property Rights
Cities in North Texas may be prohibited from banning fracking, but that hasn’t stopped some of them from trying to impose what are known as extreme setbacks, which dictate how far drilling sites must be from buildings, homes, and other structures. As North Texans for Natural Gas has previously shown, these setbacks can effectively ban drilling.
Read moreFrack Free Denton Claims Broad Support as Texas Officials Reject Their Campaign
Frack Free Denton Breaks Promise, Leaves Taxpayers on the Hook for Legal Fees
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FrackFeed Puts New Focus on Anti-Science ‘Ban Fracking’ Campaign
A new website is drawing attention to the fracking issue in a way that has never been done before.
FrackFeed.com was recently launched by North Texans for Natural Gas, a grassroots program of over 110,000 people who support drilling in the Barnett Shale. It’s about educating the public on fracking, as well as exposing how anti-fracking groups have denied science in their campaign to ban American energy development.
Read moreFoes of fracking losing legal and political momentum
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Wednesday, June 24, 2015
DENVER — After scoring a statewide ban last year on hydraulic fracturing in New York, anti-fracking activists talked excitedly about following up in a major fossil fuel-producing state — Colorado, maybe, or California.
Instead, the next state to prohibit the use of fracking in oil and gas extraction — on a temporary basis — was Maryland, which, like New York, is a deep-blue state with no hydraulic fracturing activity. Critics quickly dismissed the two-year moratorium as purely symbolic.
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