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FILE - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman answers a question during a news conference in 2011. Anonymous/AP Photo

AG inquires about conflicts on fracking votes in Southern Tier

The New York State Attorney General's Office has launched an ethics inquiry concerning votes by Southern Tier town board members related to natural …


Web graphic Marcellus Shale

NY, 6 other states suing EPA over drilling methane

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman claims in a release Tuesday that the EPA is violating the Clean Air Act by failing to address the emissions.


Colo. drilling regulators mulling new water tests

Colorado gas-and-oil regulators are debating new rules for water quality and drilling near homes, which could determine whether state lawmakers …


  • In heart of Marcellus Shale region, Cuomo repeats similar refrain
  • New York's fracking review nearing final stages
  • New York's fracking review nearing final stages
  • State DEC releases revised fracking regulations
  • Cuomo: Fracking deadline to be missed
  • Gas drilling presents Obama with historic choices
  • Gas companies lose battle to extend leases in Broome, Tioga
  • State taps experts for hydrofracking review
  • Broome legislature expected to vote today on road use law
  • Faculty, student group calls for end to UB Marcellus Shale institute
  • Towns, cities look to get involved in hydrofracking home rule case
  • Reports: Marcellus reserves larger than expected
  • Martens: Fracking health experts coming 'soon'
  • Pa. towns: Gas drilling law goes to far
  • Pa. Supreme Court hears Marcellus Shale case
  • Pa. to distribute $200M from gas drilling fees
  • Supporters of gas drilling to rally in Albany
  • On fracking, middle ground eludes Cuomo
  • Ryan wants Binghamton water tested
  • Read the judge's decision that invalidates the City of Binghamton gas drilling moratorium
  • Judge: Binghamton moratorium on gas drilling invalid
  • Landowner groups frustrated by yet another fracking review delay
  • State anticipates missing hydrofracking deadline
  • Hang, DEC differ over uncapped wells
  • Report criticizes Pa. gas drilling enforcement
  • Report criticizes Pa. gas drilling enforcement
  • Schneiderman's Delaware River basin fracking lawsuit tossed
  • Schneiderman's Delaware River basin fracking lawsuit tossed
  • Judge rejects NY gas drilling lawsuit against feds
  • Cuomo aide: No timetable on Health Department fracking review
  • Christie vetoes fracking wastewater ban
  • Corbett: Pa. drilling opponents are 'unreasoning'
  • Environmental group sues NY over drilling records
  • Otsiningo Park latest site in fracking wrangle
  • Cuomo: No pressure for immediate fracking decision
  • Report finds methane remains issue in Pa. township
  • Officials urge NY Gov. Cuomo to OK gas drilling
  • More than 1,000 take part in Albany fracking march
  • Ulster County law to limit fracking on county land
  • Pa.: Okla. energy firm's data filled with errors
  • Chesapeake: We submitted natural gas data to Pa.
  • Pa. allows driller to resume fracking in Dimock
  • Critics say Pa. DEP gas data has serious flaws
  • Chenango eyes drilling moratorium
  • Foes: Pa. state permit order threatens environment
  • Martens: From activist to chief
  • Driller to NY: Stop the local fracking bans or we'll sue
  • Caroline closer to fracking ban
  • Zoning limits in Pa. gas drilling law struck down
  • EPA: Water safe in Dimock, Pa., alternative supply unnecessary
  • Chenango fracking in question
  • Cuomo hints at support for fracking home rule
  • Deal reached on tax breaks for Pa. refinery
  • Drilling moratorium mulled for SE Pa. formation
  • Group says gas industry got inside info from DEC
  • Enfield enacts gas drilling ban for one year
  • Report: N.Y. weighs plan that would allow fracking near Pa. border
  • Federal court rules in favor of Pa. gas pipeline
  • DEC, EPA e-mails provide clues to future of drilling in N.Y.
  • Suit over Pa. Marcellus Shale law goes to judges
  • Pa. to remain center of natural gas drilling, experts say
  • Landowners go to court over Binghamton drilling ban
  • Wyo. got EPA to delay frack finding
  • Martens: Local opposition to fracking will be considered
  • Interactive map: NY communities that have a fracking moratorium or fracking ban
  • Gas driller refuses W. Pa. order to stop
  • Hinchey Calls On EPA To Finalize Air Standards For Drilling
  • Pa.'s Bradford county approves well fee
  • House leader defends new Pa. drilling law
  • Catskill Mountains town bans natural gas fracking
  • Judge halts zoning limits in Pa. gas drilling law
  • Judge to hear suit to halt Pa. gas-drilling law
  • Oil, gas industry groups seek to join lawsuit
  • Tioga County fracking deal changes the drilling landscape
  • Tioga drilling deal termed incredible opportunity; bypasses fracking
  • Judge nixes drillers' contempt claim in Pa. forest
  • Gas lines tied to fracking lack oversight, audit shows
  • Audit: Gas lines tied to fracking lack oversight
  • Group asks Vestal for drilling moratorium
  • NY Assembly calls for fracking health impact study
  • Enfield addresses gas drilling ban
  • Court allows work on Pa. gas pipeline to resume
  • Second state judge says towns can ban hydrofracking
  • Judge: Dryden can block gas drilling in community
  • Judge: Dryden can block gas drilling in community
  • Caroline public hearing last step before gas moratorium vote
  • Enfield considers moratorium on hydrofracking
  • Cuomo: Fracking decision 'couple months' away
  • Pa. House sends major gas-drilling bill to Corbett
  • Senate approves proposed fee on Pa. shale drilling
  • NY official: Much work needed on fracking regs
  • DEC panel wades through responses
  • Bills limiting local drilling rules draw GOP foes in Pa.
  • Panel recommends drilling moratorium in Lansing
  • Corbett will sign gas drilling emergency-response bill
  • Pa. protesters fault regulatory plans for gas drilling
  • FILE - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman answers a question during a news conference in 2011. Anonymous/AP Photo

    AG inquires about conflicts on fracking votes in Southern Tier

    The New York State Attorney General's Office has launched an ethics inquiry concerning votes by Southern Tier town board members related to natural …


    Consol, EQT bid to drill at Pittsburgh airport

    Consol Energy and EQT Production Company have submitted bids to drill for natural gas and oil at Pittsburgh International Airport.


    Chesapeake Energy has agreed to allow landowners to renegotiate the terms of 4,365 mineral rights leases, many of them in Broome and Tioga counties. Associated Press

    N.Y., Chesapeake Energy reach settlement on disputed gas leases

    Chesapeake Energy has agreed to allow landowners to renegotiate the terms of 4,365 mineral rights leases, many of them in Broome and Tioga counties.


  • Drilling royalty checks may shrink as gas prices dip
  • Drilling royalty checks may shrink as gas prices dip
  • Tioga County gas lease deal hits a snag
  • Tioga County gas lease deal hits a snag
  • Tioga County fracking deal changes the drilling landscape
  • Tioga drilling deal termed incredible opportunity; bypasses fracking
  • Propane fracking deal reached in NY; Plan would open 130,000 acres in Tioga County for drilling
  • Pa. school district gets $628K for drilling lease
  • Gas firm locks in Maine landowners
  • Norse Energy puts N.Y. land rights for sale
  • Susquehanna County couple challenges shale gas contracts; case heads to Pa. high court
  • Shale gas contracts case heads to Pa. high court
  • W. Pa.'s Consol Energy in $193M Marcellus deal
  • Broome sues BU, foundation over mineral lease
  • Landowners resist arbitration in gas lease dispute
  • Gas-drilling companies hold leases on 30 percent of Finger Lakes
  • Landowners look for escape after signing gas-drilling leases
  • Pa. Fish & Boat Commission to sell gas leases
  • Gas firm wants to extend Southern Tier leases
  • New lease guide available for landowners
  • Tompkins group targets gas leases' effect on property values
  • State pension fund invests over $1 billion in gas companies
  • Corbett tells drillers he opposes 'forced pooling' in leases
  • Railroad seeks water station in Painted Post
  • Gas-lease issues stall checks for Tier landowners
  • Owego board denies Inflection Energy deal, censures mayor
  • Broome landowners win gas lease court battle
  • Texas driller settles royalty suit with Pa. owners
  • Broome refuses to release gas drilling lease correspondence
  • Landowners in expiring gas deals are exploring options
  • Lawyers fighting gas company efforts to extend leases
  • Landowners looking for legal options to fight energy companies
  • Windsor group signs gas lease agreement
  • Gas company attempts to extend leases
  • Owego mayor struggling to gain support for Inflection deal
  • Gas company must make lease extension decision
  • Owego wants environmental review before passing water deal
  • Village board set to take up Inflection offer
  • Owego village board to consider Inflection Energy offer at special session
  • Gas drilling offers new boon for local wastewater treatment plants
  • Owego board tables decision on Inflection offer
  • Pa. couple claims unfair royalties from Consol
  • New Broome legislature may have different take on natural gas leases
  • Broome County Legislature rejects Inflection's $7.8M gas offer
  • Inflection extends deadline for Broome $7.8 million gas rights offer
  • Broome County Legislature vote on natural gas drilling offer likely to be close
  • Ryan hopes legislature turns down Binghamton natural gas offer
  • Broome lawmakers discuss Inflection gas lease offer
  • Drilling firm opts to retain N.Y. land
  • Chesapeake to buy 500K acres for $850M; purchase includes land in Tier
  • Legislators delay action on gas-lease measure
  • State hearing addresses proposed Windsor gas pipeline
  • Rendell: 'Color me optimistic' on natural gas tax extraction deal
  • Students balk at Binghamton University natural gas lease
  • DEC mulls leasing state forestland for natural gas extraction
  • Colorado company makes second offer for Broome mineral rights
  • Moratorium on drilling could bolster companies' force majeure claims
  • Lawyers, landowners in fracking mineral rights 'force majeure' battle
  • Pitt: Land leased for oil, gas up 322 percent
  • Marcellus land law seminar set for Wednesday
  • Rendell willing to negotiate a gas 'pooling' law
  • No drilling lease? In some ways, it may not matter
  • Company moves forward with efforts to build pipeline extension in Broome County
  • Fiala pulls Broome County gas deal
  • Read Broome County's press release on spiking the natural gas drilling rights deal
  • Fiala withdraws proposed natural gas drilling deal
  • Broome sells off 107 seized properties for $1.28M
  • Inflection offer to Broome includes 5,610 acres
  • Is Broome County getting a fair gas deal? Officials, landowners weigh in
  • W.Pa. town agrees to lease with Marcellus driller
  • Gas rights offer to get final legislative vote
  • Cornell poll: 53% of New Yorkers see more risk than revenue in gas drilling
  • Gas-drilling proposal passes first Broome hurdle
  • Four Broome County legislators excluded from gas lease decision
  • Broome County considers $15.9 million deal for gas-drilling rights
  • Broome close to signing $16 million Marcellus Shale drilling rights deal
  • Towanda Pa. school district approves lease with gas driller
  • Town of Maine residents getting $3 million for gas rights
  • Broome lawmakers again debate mineral rights for seized properties
  • Marcellus Shale: Is it safe to drill?
  • Natural Gas Timeline
  • Marcellus Shale: Is it safe to drill?
  • UT probe: fracking study didn't meet standards

    HOUSTON (AP) — An independent review of a University of Texas study into hydraulic fracturing found the research did not meet standards for …


    FILE - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman answers a question during a news conference in 2011. Anonymous/AP Photo

    AG inquires about conflicts on fracking votes in Southern Tier

    The New York State Attorney General's Office has launched an ethics inquiry concerning votes by Southern Tier town board members related to natural …


    Web graphic Marcellus Shale

    NY, 6 other states suing EPA over drilling methane

    Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman claims in a release Tuesday that the EPA is violating the Clean Air Act by failing to address the emissions.


  • Exxon: US energy revival has staying power
  • NY gas driller Norse Energy files for Chapter 11
  • Study: Natural gas exports would help US economy
  • In heart of Marcellus Shale region, Cuomo repeats similar refrain
  • Ohio drilling falls short of expectations
  • New York's fracking review nearing final stages
  • New York's fracking review nearing final stages
  • State DEC releases revised fracking regulations
  • Genesee County gas driller sues town, DEC
  • Philly college faculty oppose shale group funds
  • Fracking protest gets heated in southeast Ohio
  • U-M researchers studying hydraulic fracturing
  • Ad campaign presses for NY gas drilling, fracking
  • State approves rules for water withdrawals
  • Colorado Springs next front in fracking war
  • Company proposes 75-mile gas pipeline through Broome, Chenango
  • Conservation groups face gas dilemma
  • Conservation groups debate gas drilling ties
  • Cuomo: Fracking deadline to be missed
  • Gas drilling presents Obama with historic choices
  • Onetime drilling opponent signs lease on Pa. farm
  • Ohio renews injection-well permitting
  • Missouri cashes in by supplying fracking sand
  • Marcellus Shale business merger activity slows
  • Drilling supporter says misinformation spread by opponents
  • Pa. to distribute $200M from gas drilling fees
  • US releases estimate of Utica Shale reserves
  • Read the judge's decision that invalidates the City of Binghamton gas drilling moratorium
  • Susquehanna County gas wells are most productive in Pa.
  • Landowner groups frustrated by yet another fracking review delay
  • Hang, DEC differ over uncapped wells
  • Cuomo aide: No timetable on Health Department fracking review
  • DEC chief rejects calls for outside hydrofracking health study
  • Pa. officials: Gas drilling impact fee won't pay for health studies
  • Pa. Turnpike billboards slam gas drilling critics
  • Cuomo: No pressure for immediate fracking decision
  • Planned major gas pipeline to cross northern Ohio
  • Pa.: Okla. energy firm's data filled with errors
  • Chesapeake: We submitted natural gas data to Pa.
  • Pa. allows driller to resume fracking in Dimock
  • Critics say Pa. DEP gas data has serious flaws
  • Martens: From activist to chief
  • Shale gas boom lifts W.Va. construction industry
  • Experts: Ohio gov's $1T oil, gas price tag wrong
  • Gas drilling research suffers from lack of funding
  • Driller to NY: Stop the local fracking bans or we'll sue
  • Caroline closer to fracking ban
  • Zoning limits in Pa. gas drilling law struck down
  • EPA: Water safe in Dimock, Pa., alternative supply unnecessary
  • Can fracking pollute water? Study tries to answer
  • Drilling moratorium mulled for SE Pa. formation
  • Group says gas industry got inside info from DEC
  • Exxon chief: environmentalists guilty of manufacturing drilling fear
  • Cuomo: No plan or decision yet on hydrofracking
  • N.Y., Chesapeake Energy reach settlement on disputed gas leases
  • Libous, Skelos say drilling In Southern Tier would help economy
  • Report: N.Y. weighs plan that would allow fracking near Pa. border
  • DEC, EPA e-mails provide clues to future of drilling in N.Y.
  • Suit over Pa. Marcellus Shale law goes to judges
  • Pa. to remain center of natural gas drilling, experts say
  • Landowners go to court over Binghamton drilling ban
  • Anti-fracking advocates urge public health assessment
  • For NY farmers, fracking means salvation -- or ruin
  • For NY farmers, fracking means salvation -- or ruin
  • 'Peer-reviewed' label pulled from UB shale study
  • Drilling royalty checks may shrink as gas prices dip
  • Drilling royalty checks may shrink as gas prices dip
  • Pa. health care company seeks gas drilling facts
  • For NY farmers, fracking means salvation -- or ruin
  • Vt. becomes 1st state to ban hydraulic fracturing
  • Report: N.Y. fracking regulations would prevent 'major' violations
  • Report: N.Y. fracking regulations would prevent 'major' violations
  • Anti-fracking rallies, concert coming to Albany
  • Drilling rigs down in Pa., up in W. Va.
  • EPA: Well water in Pa. gas drilling town is safe
  • Updated: EPA: Dimock, Pa., well water OK
  • Gas drilling company countersues W. Pa. landowners
  • NY landowners assert right to frack for gas
  • Pa. gas drilling generated $3.5 billion
  • Pa. gas drilling generated $3.5 billion
  • Wyo. got EPA to delay frack finding
  • Tioga County gas lease deal hits a snag
  • Western Pa. gas well services firm lays off 30
  • Martens: Local opposition to fracking will be considered
  • EPA to slash air pollution from natural gas wells
  • EPA to slash air pollution from natural gas wells
  • Gas driller refuses W. Pa. order to stop
  • Gas drilling spurs jobs in wildlife, software
  • Hinchey Calls On EPA To Finalize Air Standards For Drilling
  • Books, films chronicle Marcellus Shale gas rush
  • Catskill Mountains town bans natural gas fracking
  • Doctors critical of Pa. drilling bill that strips health study money
  • Judge halts zoning limits in Pa. gas drilling law
  • University at Buffalo to open shale research facility
  • Updated - EPA: Water quality OK at 20 more Dimock wells
  • Harrisburg man killed in NW Pa. drilling accident
  • UT probe: fracking study didn't meet standards

    HOUSTON (AP) — An independent review of a University of Texas study into hydraulic fracturing found the research did not meet standards for …


    Colo. drilling regulators mulling new water tests

    Colorado gas-and-oil regulators are debating new rules for water quality and drilling near homes, which could determine whether state lawmakers …


    US energy experts say drilling can be made cleaner

    In the Colorado mountains, a spike in air pollution has been linked to a boom in oil and gas drilling. On the plains of north Texas, there's a …


  • In heart of Marcellus Shale region, Cuomo repeats similar refrain
  • Environmentalists call for broader health review of hydrofracking
  • Environmentalists call for broader health review of hydrofracking
  • New York's fracking review nearing final stages
  • New York's fracking review nearing final stages
  • State DEC releases revised fracking regulations
  • Fracking protest gets heated in southeast Ohio
  • U-M researchers studying hydraulic fracturing
  • State approves rules for water withdrawals
  • Conservation groups face gas dilemma
  • Conservation groups debate gas drilling ties
  • Cuomo: Fracking deadline to be missed
  • Gas drilling presents Obama with historic choices
  • Gas companies lose battle to extend leases in Broome, Tioga
  • State taps experts for hydrofracking review
  • Broome legislature expected to vote today on road use law
  • Ohio renews injection-well permitting
  • Colorado oil and gas supporters fight regulations
  • Pollution perhaps linked to gas drilling vanishing
  • Pollution perhaps linked to gas drilling vanishing
  • 14 eco groups ask Pa. to change drill/water policy
  • Pa. Supreme Court hears Marcellus Shale case
  • Supporters of gas drilling to rally in Albany
  • On fracking, middle ground eludes Cuomo
  • Ryan wants Binghamton water tested
  • Read the judge's decision that invalidates the City of Binghamton gas drilling moratorium
  • Landowner groups frustrated by yet another fracking review delay
  • Bass fishing and gas drilling meet in Pittsburgh
  • State anticipates missing hydrofracking deadline
  • Hang, DEC differ over uncapped wells
  • Cuomo aide: No timetable on Health Department fracking review
  • Christie vetoes fracking wastewater ban
  • Global protests planned over gas drilling process
  • DEC chief rejects calls for outside hydrofracking health study
  • Environmental group sues NY over drilling records
  • University of Minnesota team using biotech to cut fracking impacts
  • Pa. allows driller to resume fracking in Dimock
  • Shell serious about W. Pa. petrochemical plant
  • Updated: Dimock residents near well water settlement
  • Martens: From activist to chief
  • Fracking opponents target Cuomo supporters
  • Gas drilling research suffers from lack of funding
  • Zoning limits in Pa. gas drilling law struck down
  • EPA: Water safe in Dimock, Pa., alternative supply unnecessary
  • Study will monitor W. Pa. Marcellus gas emissions
  • Texas fracking study gets independent review
  • Chenango fracking in question
  • U.S. insurer won't cover gas drill fracking exposure
  • Can fracking pollute water? Study tries to answer
  • Painted Post faces lawsuit over water project
  • Acid spill cleanup at gas-drilling site includes tributary of Towanda Creek
  • Cuomo hints at support for fracking home rule
  • 3 gas drilling protesters arrested in Pa.
  • Gas drilling under cemeteries raises money, moral questions
  • Agency suspends water withdrawals
  • 100 demonstrate against fracking outside Talisman Energy in Big Flats
  • Chesapeake Energy gives $500K following blowout in Bradford County
  • Libous, Skelos say drilling In Southern Tier would help economy
  • Report: N.Y. weighs plan that would allow fracking near Pa. border
  • Federal court rules in favor of Pa. gas pipeline
  • Federal court rules in favor of Pa. gas pipeline
  • DEC, EPA e-mails provide clues to future of drilling in N.Y.
  • Suit over Pa. Marcellus Shale law goes to judges
  • Pa. to remain center of natural gas drilling, experts say
  • Horseheads debates moratorium on drilling technique
  • Landowners go to court over Binghamton drilling ban
  • Anti-fracking advocates urge public health assessment
  • For NY farmers, fracking means salvation -- or ruin
  • For NY farmers, fracking means salvation -- or ruin
  • Horseheads weighs fracking ban
  • Upstate communities consider frack bans
  • DEP investigates gas migration in Bradford County
  • Pa. health care company seeks gas drilling facts
  • Bradford County water wells tested for methane
  • For NY farmers, fracking means salvation -- or ruin
  • Vt. becomes 1st state to ban hydraulic fracturing
  • Report: N.Y. fracking regulations would prevent 'major' violations
  • Report: N.Y. fracking regulations would prevent 'major' violations
  • Anti-fracking rallies, concert coming to Albany
  • EPA: Well water in Pa. gas drilling town is safe
  • Updated: EPA: Dimock, Pa., well water OK
  • DEP probes 2nd mud release at pipeline site in Pa.
  • Wyo. got EPA to delay frack finding
  • In fracking fight, protests may be having an impact
  • In fracking fight, protests may be having an impact
  • Hydrofracking front and center at Earth Day event
  • EPA finds arsenic in Dimock, Pa., well
  • Pa. health official clarifies new gas drilling law
  • EPA to slash air pollution from natural gas wells
  • EPA to slash air pollution from natural gas wells
  • Hinchey Calls On EPA To Finalize Air Standards For Drilling
  • Books, films chronicle Marcellus Shale gas rush
  • Gas driller fined $160K over leaky Pa. well
  • DEP: Spill at W. Pa. pipeline site
  • House leader defends new Pa. drilling law
  • Catskill Mountains town bans natural gas fracking
  • NY gas lawyer: Drilling unlikely before late 2013

    An environmental review and new regulations for shale gas development are likely to be finished by the end of February, but additional obstacles will …


    Gillie Waddington of Enfield, N.Y., raises a fist during rally against hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. About 600 people registered to lobby lawmakers Monday on various bills related to the technology known as 'fracking.' Many are pushing a bill that would ban fracking, which stimulates gas production by using chemically treated water to fracture shale. Others are supporting a bill putting a moratorium on shale gas development. (AP Photo/Mike Groll) AP

    Driller to NY: Stop the local fracking bans or we'll sue

    A natural gas drilling company is taking a new tack in the industry's fight against local drilling bans: It's threatening to sue if New York …


    Barber

    Caroline closer to fracking ban

    Gas drilling could soon be banned outright in the Town of Caroline as only a public comment period and town board vote stands in the way of a bill …


  • Binghamton Chamber hosts panel to discuss positive impacts of drilling
  • Speakers give Enfield residents different perspectives on fracking
  • Municipal fracking bans to be topic
  • Hector agrees to fracking meeting after third request
  • Enfield residents tell town board to ban fracking
  • Video: Ithaca fracking hearing
  • Ithaca fracking forum packs theatre
  • Fracking opponents dominate the DEC public hearing in NYC
  • Lines forming outside fracking hearing site in Binghamton
  • Updated: DEC schedules fracking hearing in Binghamton on Nov. 17; three others planned
  • Reed meeting emphasizes drilling safety
  • Who's who of gas industry meeting in Philadelphia
  • Drilling presentation an educational resource for towns
  • Thousands share anti-fracking sentiments at Ithaca College
  • Ithaca College to host gas-drilling protest
  • Marcellus Shale expo Saturday in Troy
  • Pa. gas drilling hearing draws backers, opponents
  • US Dept. of Energy to hold meeting on fracking
  • Gas drilling series starts Thursday in Newfield
  • Coalition to host natural gas forum in Owego
  • Gas lease meetings in Dryden
  • Afton road law stirs dissension
  • Hearings set for drilling in Delaware River Basin
  • Debate over gas drilling method draws Ohio crowd
  • Gas company must make lease extension decision
  • Webcast: Archived version of natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing forum
  • Fracking to be topic at ‘Science Cabaret’
  • Lupardo's environmental update turns into hydrofracking debate
  • Rove to speak at Pa. gas drilling conference
  • State hearing addresses proposed Windsor gas pipeline
  • State plans hearings on gas pipeline
  • No flare-ups at Broome County gas hearing
  • Broome natural gas meeting set for Thursday
  • Broome control over natural gas rush studied
  • Binghamton Forum to host another meeting on natural gas drilling debate
  • Actor Ruffalo among anti-fracking speakers at BU event
  • BU to host gas-drilling information session
  • Broome Community College to offer 3 sessions on Marcellus Shale
  • BCC to host fracking information sessions
  • Video: View an archived version of the Wednesday, Sept 15 afternoon EPA fracking forum
  • Day 1 of EPA meeting served its point, officials say
  • Video: See an archived version of Monday evening's EPA fracking forum
  • Pro-drilling crowd stress love for land
  • Drilling opponents, supporters butt heads at EPA Forum
  • Pro-drilling crowd stress love for land
  • Drilling opponents, supporters butt heads at EPA Forum
  • 'No Fracking Way' serves as theme for anti-drilling faction
  • EPA meeting notebook
  • EPA's public meeting to discuss fracking to kick off Monday
  • When and where will the meeting take place?
  • EPA hearing to attract hundreds
  • EPA fracking hearing to feature 400 speakers, 2 different sides
  • EPA seeks chemical info on hydraulic fracturing
  • Gas-drilling factions split up for EPA hearing in Binghamton
  • A done deal: EPA fracking forum coming to Binghamton
  • Fiala: Binghamton close to securing EPA meeting
  • NARFE to discuss gas drilling
  • Chesapeake Energy paying for Bradford County road work
  • Negotiations for EPA meeting site continue
  • No deal set on EPA meeting
  • EPA officials say meeting announcement expected shortly
  • Broome County still hoping to host EPA meeting
  • Public hearing to be conducted for proposed natural gas pipeline
  • EPA meeting on hydraulic fracturing study may get second day
  • Binghamton seminar focuses on land law, gas rush
  • Marcellus land law seminar set for Wednesday
  • Cabot cooking for 1,000 in attempt to sell its gas story
  • Area leaders say they'll work to bring EPA meeting to Tier
  • EPA crowd of 8,000? BU won't say how it arrived at estimate
  • EPA fracking forum postponed; Sept. date now likely
  • Decision to move fracking meeting hurts local economy
  • Fracking meeting: Change of venue sends rally organizers scrambling
  • County, EPA can't answer why fracking meeting had to leave Broome
  • EPA won't pay BU's price: Fracking meeting moved to Syracuse
  • Same time, same day, different city
  • EPA fracking forum moved to Oncenter exhibit hall
  • Location of EPA fracking hearing still undetermined
  • Crowd expected for EPA-hosted hearing on hydraulic fracturing
  • Binghamton University Events Center may house EPA meeting on fracking
  • Site still undetermined for next week's EPA natural gas hearing
  • Why is the meeting being held?
  • Broome County gas hearing draws overflow crowd
  • Video: See an archived version of Broome County's hearing on gas drilling rights
  • IDA to discuss natural gas in Owego
  • Hearing Monday to address proposed Broome County gas deal
  • Gas drilling: Public can learn more about offer to lease Broome County land
  • Video: Broome County Executive promotes drilling, opposes moratorium
  • EPA plans gas-drilling meetings
  • Seminar to cover Marcellus Shale finances
  • Marcellus Shale hearing scheduled
  • ‘Gasland’ director to visit Elmira Heights
  • ‘Gasland’ director to visit Binghamton
  • Gas drilling is topic of Chemung County League of Women Voters meeting
  • Gas drilling is topic of Chemung County League of Women Voters meeting
  • Job seminar upcoming for those interested in natural gas positions
  • Jobs in drilling industry will be topic
  • Drilling supporter says misinformation spread by opponents

    Don't believe the popular notion that out-of-towners are getting a majority of the gas drilling jobs in Pennsylvania, a natural gas drilling …


    For NY farmers, fracking means salvation -- or ruin

    Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, bitterly thinking of the riches beneath his own …


    For NY farmers, fracking means salvation -- or ruin

    Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, bitterly thinking of the riches beneath his own …


  • For NY farmers, fracking means salvation -- or ruin
  • Proposed gas lease deal could avoid fracking moratorium
  • Coalition launched to work for NY fracking ban
  • Drilling supporters form alliance to tout economic benefits to NY
  • Federal judge to rule on land owners' dispute with gas drillers
  • Ex-Gov. Tom Ridge ends stint as Marcellus 'face'
  • New group tries to remove emotion from gas-drilling debate
  • Energy group, environmentalists point to contradictions in DEC fracking document
  • Phish gets behind no-fracking group
  • Ithaca College to host gas-drilling protest
  • Fracking focus of weekend events in Binghamton
  • Gas-drilling advocates present their case in Albany
  • Gas-drilling advocates present their case in Albany
  • Coalition to host natural gas forum in Owego
  • Industry tried to get 'Gasland' documentary disqualified from Oscars
  • DiNapoli joins push for disclosure from gas companies
  • Shareholder groups press gas drillers on fracking
  • Tompkins anti-fracking group fight leasing tactics
  • Marcellus Shale drilling opponents rally in Pa. Capitol
  • Rendell looking into intel report on anti-gas activists
  • Video: See archive video from rallies outside the EPA fracking forum
  • Broome legislature forms gas committee
  • NE Pa. activists air drilling fears at 'Gas Stock'
  • PRI gets federal grant to enhance public education on drilling
  • Landowners to Albany: Let the drilling begin
  • Landowners rallying in Albany Wednesday to ask legislators to stay out of DEC's way
  • Town of Maine residents getting $3 million for gas rights
  • Tompkins localities to form gas drilling task force
  • Marcellus Shale: Is it safe to drill?
  • Marcellus Shale: Is it safe to drill?
  • FILE - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman answers a question during a news conference in 2011. Anonymous/AP Photo

    AG inquires about conflicts on fracking votes in Southern Tier

    The New York State Attorney General's Office has launched an ethics inquiry concerning votes by Southern Tier town board members related to natural …


    Web graphic Marcellus Shale

    NY, 6 other states suing EPA over drilling methane

    Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman claims in a release Tuesday that the EPA is violating the Clean Air Act by failing to address the emissions.


    Web graphic Marcellus Shale

    NY gas driller Norse Energy files for Chapter 11

    A natural gas drilling company that had counted on tapping the riches of New York's part of the Marcellus Shale has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy …


  • Study: Natural gas exports would help US economy
  • Ad campaign presses for NY gas drilling, fracking
  • Company proposes 75-mile gas pipeline through Broome, Chenango
  • Corbett optimistic about Pa. petrochemical plant
  • Gas companies lose battle to extend leases in Broome, Tioga
  • Reports: Marcellus reserves larger than expected
  • Pa. officials: Gas drilling impact fee won't pay for health studies
  • Chesapeake Energy selling some assets for $6.9B
  • Pa. drilling impact fee raises more than $200M
  • Planned major gas pipeline to cross northern Ohio
  • EPA: Water safe in Dimock, Pa., alternative supply unnecessary
  • Gas drilling under cemeteries raises money, moral questions
  • Deal reached on tax breaks for Pa. refinery
  • Exxon chief: environmentalists guilty of manufacturing drilling fear
  • Cuomo: No plan or decision yet on hydrofracking
  • Chesapeake Energy gives $500K following blowout in Bradford County
  • N.Y., Chesapeake Energy reach settlement on disputed gas leases
  • Libous, Skelos say drilling In Southern Tier would help economy
  • Report: N.Y. weighs plan that would allow fracking near Pa. border
  • Federal court rules in favor of Pa. gas pipeline
  • Federal court rules in favor of Pa. gas pipeline
  • Proposed Shell tax break in Pa. worth $66M a year
  • Pa. health care company seeks gas drilling facts
  • Bradford County water wells tested for methane
  • Chesapeake shares plunge on results, new CEO conflict issue raised
  • Chesapeake's McClendon to step down as chairman; to remain as CEO
  • Gas drilling spurs jobs in wildlife, software
  • Natural gas price drops to a 10-year low
  • Pittsburgh-area site is chosen for major Marcellus-related refinery
  • $1B natural gas pipeline proposed for Pa.
  • Natural gas transporter eyes new pipeline through Southern Tier
  • Thousands of jobs at stake in competition for Marcellus Shale byproduct plant
  • OSHA wants $53K from Pa. gas driller for citations
  • Senators ask Shell to build chemical plant in Pa.
  • Total makes $2.3B bet on Chesapeake shale venture
  • Feds approve northern Pa. natural gas pipeline; opponents promise challenge
  • Norse Energy puts N.Y. land rights for sale
  • Shale gas exploration fuels $21 billion pipeline deal
  • Developers: 400 energy jobs on way in Central Pa.
  • Dominion seeks exports of Marcellus Shale gas
  • W. Pa.'s Consol Energy in $193M Marcellus deal
  • Pa., W.Va., Ohio vie for huge new Shell gas plant
  • Bottoms up: Halliburton exec. takes a swig of fracking fluid
  • N.Y. seeks financial documents from natural gas firms
  • N.Y. seeks financial documents from natural gas firms
  • Consol selling some Marcellus interests for $3.4B
  • Range Resources challenges Pa. town's ordinance
  • Big, new pipelines on tap for Pa., Marcellus Shale
  • Federal judge to rule on land owners' dispute with gas drillers
  • 3rd spill reported in Susquehanna pipeline project
  • DEC, gas firm build turf battle
  • Pa. pipeline project remains shut down after spill
  • Landowners resist arbitration in gas lease dispute
  • Company defends plan for Pa. natural gas pipeline
  • Gas driller dumps dino-themed coloring book
  • EPA questions need for gas line through Pa. forest
  • Natural gas pipeline construction enters Tier
  • Ridge: Gas industry must improve public image
  • Gas drilling industry supplier to open Elmira location
  • Drilling brings business, even where it's sparse
  • State pension fund sinks $1B+ into gas companies
  • Chevron to buy 228K acres from Chief, Tug Hill
  • Driller temporarily stops operations at Pennsylvania wells
  • Fracking gel: Canadian company presents a natural gas alternative
  • Fracking gel: Canadian company presents a natural gas alternative
  • Company touts alternative fracking method
  • PennDOT curtails Chesapeake Appalachia road permits
  • Marcellus Shale enriches Albany lobbyists
  • Shale enriches Albany lobbyists
  • $3.6M spent on lobbying hydrofracking moratorium bills
  • Owego gas project riles labor union
  • Gas drillers make waves in Pa. with NFL tickets
  • Fiala accepted campaign funds from Inflection
  • Triana, Marathon Oil partner on Marcellus drilling
  • Texas gas company buys Marcellus wells in Pa.
  • Gas driller ends operations in 2 NE Pa. counties
  • Nomac opens facility to train, house gas drilling employees
  • Chesapeake unveils 'man camp' in Bradford County
  • Chesapeake building more 'man camps' in Bradford County
  • Chevron buys Atlas; Marcellus assets a factor
  • George Phillips' drilling site tour hits snags
  • Vestal zoning board approves gas metering station
  • Groups say Corbett received most natural-gas money
  • Pa. insists Cabot pay for $11.8M water pipeline for Dimock residents
  • Litigation likely in battle between Cabot Oil and Pa. DEP
  • Gas pipeline company in talks with opponents
  • Firm targets Broome for plants
  • Dominion sues gas owners to protect storage site
  • Fiala will not include potential gas revenue in Broome County budget
  • Cabot trying to repair tarnished image in Pennsylvania
  • Cabot picnic draws 2,300, but few gas protesters
  • Paterson demands "overwhelming evidence" that drilling is safe
  • Ex-Gov. Ridge to aid gas drilling industry group
  • Gas drilling lifts Elmira airport usage
  • Gas industry ups lobbying spending in New York
  • Land services firm to establish Elmira office

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    Read opposing views on the natural gas drilling debate from our collection of editorials, guest viewpoints and letters.

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    A dozen drilling companies have staked claim to natural gas deposits in three northeast Pennsylvania counties. Refer to this map to pinpoint the location of drilling permits and the sponsoring drillers in Bradford, Tioga and Susquehanna counties.

    Leasing Deals

    One landowner coalition in New York and one landowner coalition in Pennsylvania have signed deals with drillers. Refer to this map to learn to details of coalition deals, and other individual deals with landowners in the Marcellus Shale in New York's Southern Tier and Pennsylvania's Northern Tier.

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    Broome County Maps

    View of map of all Broome County private parcels subject to natural gas drilling leases.

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    Interactives

    Hydraulic fracturing explained
    At the center of the natural gas drilling debate is hydro-fracking, the process used to release trapped natural gas from the Marcellus Shale. Learn more about the controversial process in this interactive graphic.

    EPA examines hydro-fracking

    The Environmental Protection Agency hosted the last of hydro-fracking forums in Binghamton on Sept. 13 and Sept. 15. Read about those forums.
    1. Day 1 of EPA meeting served its point, officials say

      BINGHAMTON -- About 200 people spoke Monday during the first day of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's final public meeting on its hydraulic fracturing study, but did the agency get the feedback it desired?
    2. Video: See an archived version of Monday evening's EPA fracking forum
    3. Pro-drilling crowd stress love for land
    4. Drilling opponents, supporters butt heads at EPA Forum
    5. Pro-drilling crowd stress love for land
    6. Drilling opponents, supporters butt heads at EPA Forum
    7. 'No Fracking Way' serves as theme for anti-drilling faction
    8. EPA meeting notebook
    9. No incidents reported during EPA hearing
    10. Video: See archive video from rallies outside the EPA fracking forum
    11. EPA's public meeting to discuss fracking to kick off Monday
    12. When and where will the meeting take place?
    13. EPA hearing to attract hundreds
    14. EPA fracking hearing to feature 400 speakers, 2 different sides
    15. EPA seeks chemical info on hydraulic fracturing
    16. Gas-drilling factions split up for EPA hearing in Binghamton
    17. A done deal: EPA fracking forum coming to Binghamton
    18. Fiala: Binghamton close to securing EPA meeting
    19. Negotiations for EPA meeting site continue
    20. No deal set on EPA meeting
    21. EPA officials say meeting announcement expected shortly
    22. Broome County still hoping to host EPA meeting
    23. EPA meeting on hydraulic fracturing study may get second day
    24. Area leaders say they'll work to bring EPA meeting to Tier
    25. EPA crowd of 8,000? BU won't say how it arrived at estimate
    26. EPA fracking forum postponed; Sept. date now likely
    27. Decision to move fracking meeting hurts local economy
    28. Fracking meeting: Change of venue sends rally organizers scrambling
    29. County, EPA can't answer why fracking meeting had to leave Broome
    30. EPA won't pay BU's price: Fracking meeting moved to Syracuse
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