Archive for January 2nd, 2014

Canada: Nothern Gateway Pipeline Not Popular Among B.C. Coastal Businesses

Edmonton Journal: As far as business groups go, the Tofino-Long Beach Chamber of Commerce isn’t the biggest or most powerful organization in British Columbia, but its members are still taking a very vocal and public stand against the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. Their motive is simple: past experience. In late December 1988, fuel from an 850,000 litre spill in Grays Harbour, Wash., made its way north to the west coast of Vancouver Island, fouling local beaches, killing thousands of seabirds and closing commercial...

Production Ohio’s Utica Shale Increasing Fast

Columbus Dispatch: Ohio energy companies extracted more than twice as much oil and gas from the Utica shale in the third quarter of 2013 as they did in all of 2012, according to new figures issued by the state. Although that might seem like a dramatic increase, the spike in production was not unexpected, considering the increase in active wells, industry experts say. The numbers are part of the first-ever quarterly report on the Utica shale, the result of a new state law that requires companies to file a report...