A group of energy companies including Royal Dutch Shell and SASOL have leased the rights to a huge, gas-rich shale field in South Africa, where they plan to use hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas. So now, as we’ve seen in Pennsylvania, New York and the rest of the Marcellus Shale region, environmental groups and […]

Inergy, LP, one of the country’s largest propane retailers, purchased an underground salt cavern facility near Seneca Lake outside Watkins Glen, NY, capable of holding approximately 2 billion cubic feet of liquid propane gas, MarketWatch reported. Salt caverns are ideal for storing propane because they’re huge and essentially impermeable. The acquisition originally faced opposition and […]

Central New York Oil and Gas is trying to construct a major gas pipeline through multiple northern Pennsylvania counties, but have hit snags from the EPA and other environmental groups demanding a better assessment of how the pipeline will impact area ecosystems. The company struck back at the EPA this week, saying the agency is […]