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Tag: gas drilling ordinance

  • Norse Energy Corp. v. Town of Dryden: Court upholds New York town’s fracking ban.

    New piece at Slate by my friend & colleague  Adam Briggle. For a while, it looked like we were scraping the bottom of Earth’s barrel of fossil fuels. Then along came hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling, and now some argue that we might never run out of the stuff,…

  • Denton Drilling: Draft ordinance needs overhaul

    Denton, Texas’ draft ordinance concerning gas drilling gets an F from local citizens. Time for a do over. Last night, about forty dedicated citizens gathered to review the draft gas drilling ordinance and generate ideas for how to improve it. There was one clear take home message: The draft ordinance…