The Ramapough Lenape Nation is taking on the Pilgrim Pipeline and its powerful backers. Their fight is gaining support. …
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The Power Behind the Pipelines: Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Our newest report looks at the corporate power, revolving door lobbyists, political donations, regulatory conflicts, and banks behind the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. …
Eyes on the Ties’ Frackateer of the Month: Antony Ressler
Tony Ressler, the Los Angeles-based billionaire socialite and private equity boss, is a key force behind the controversial Pilgrim Pipeline. …
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Corporate Backers Fund Faulty Pro-Pipeline Poll
Backers of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline cite a poll that shows support for it. But the poll results were bought and paid for by the oil and gas industry. …
Former Obama EPA Official Now Lobbying for Atlantic Coast Pipeline
A former Obama EPA official and congressional chief of staff is now lobbying politicians and key regulatory agencies for Dominion and its controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline. …
CPV: A Private Equity Fracking Play
Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), an energy company behind nine planned or operational natural gas power plants across the US and Canada, has faced strident local opposition to several of its east coast projects. Proposed plants in New York and Connecticut have highlighted how CPV uses political influence, including the hiring of well-connected lobbyists and political …
Who’s profiting from drilling Los Angeles?
by Rob Galbraith and Gin Armstrong Freeport-McMoRan is far and away the largest oil and gas producer in Los Angeles, with 1,311 active wells in Los Angeles County according California’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources. The corporation, a multinational mining giant, acquired most of its Los Angeles wells in its 2012 purchase of …
Oil pipeline company spends heavily on Cuomo-tied lobbying firm
PAI’s most recent report showed how companies behind major New York State natural gas infrastructure projects have been increasing lobbying expenditures and contracting with firms tied to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s family and administration. This trend is not confined to the natural gas sector: at least one oil infrastructure company is employing the same …
Industry-tied Department of Energy study finds gas exports will drive fracking, makes no mention of climate
On December 28, Bloomberg reported on a US Department of Energy analysis that found that increasing exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States would result in a 5% decrease in natural gas prices in Asia along with a 1% increase in US prices. The contracted researchers concluded that this would be a …
Oil-financed Senate banking committee poised to greenlight oil exports
Despite signaling earlier this year that President Obama would veto bills repealing the current ban on exporting crude oil produced in the United States, the administration has since walked back that position. Yesterday, Politico reported (subscription required) that White House spokesman Josh Earnest declined to rule out lifting the ban in exchange for other administration …
Astroturf kingpin deploys front groups to support drilling, aided by frackademic Considine
Last week, the Salt Lake Tribune ran an op-ed entitled “‘Bean-counting bureaucrats’ at BLM are locking up Utah’s future,” advocating the opening of federally owned lands to oil and gas drilling. The column, essentially the same as an op-ed that ran a week earlier in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, relies on a report by Timothy …
EIA Monterey Shale write-down invalidates frackademic Considine’s predictions
A little more than a week ago the Orange County Register ran a column by Timothy Considine, the director of the Center for Energy Economics and Public Policy at the University of Wyoming arguing against a ban on hydraulic fracturing in California. Considine claims that fracking in the Monterey Shale could add 557,000 jobs per …