gas drilling

Split Estate; What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

Split Estate; What You Don't Know Can Hurt You Imagine discovering that you don't own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine having little recourse, other than accepting an unregulated industry in your backyard. Split Estate maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their ...[READ MORE]

Hydraulic Fracturing – What it's about and why you should care

The Fracking Fuss What it's about—and why you should care by Sheryl Eisenberg Fracking is all over the news these days, but what exactly is it? A.A harmless way to get natural gas out of the ground. B.A fictional euphemism in a TV series for, well, you know what. C.The answer to global warming. D.None of the above. If you answered B, you really know your popular culture. It was, indeed, an expletive used in Battlestar Galactica, as my business partner keeps reminding me. She can't help ...[READ MORE]