Oil and gas lease rights auction posted by the Bureau of Land Management which includes 33 parcels in Ohio's Wayne National Forest (about 1,600 acres). This marks the first time the BLM has offered federal land in the Utica Shale for lease.
Draft Environmental Assessment for drilling in the Marietta Unit of the Wayne...Marcellus Drilling News
A draft Environmental Assessment from the Bureau of Land Management that will allow limited shale drilling in Ohio's Wayne National Forest--or more specifically, in one small portion of WNF. The draft EA will accept public comments until the end of May 2016.
Annual report issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration showing oil and natural gas proved reserves, in this case for 2015. These reports are issued almost a year after the period for which they report. This report shows proved reserves for natural gas dropped by 64.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf), or 16.6%. U.S. crude oil and lease condensate proved reserves also decreased--from 39.9 billion barrels to 35.2 billion barrels (down 11.8%) in 2015. Proved reserves are calculated on a number of factors, including price.
An account of the initial response to a large fire at Statoil's Eisenbarth well pad site in Monroe County, OH which occured on June 28 around 9am. EPA reps were on the site the day of the accident and chronicle what happened, and the response to put out the fire and the resulting environmental damaged caused by the fire and the efforts to fight it.
Natural gas report covering data received up through August 2016. The monthly report highlights activities, events, and analyses of interest to public and private sector organizations associated with the natural gas industry.
PA DEP Permit for Unconventional NatGas Well Site Operations and Remote Piggi...Marcellus Drilling News
In January 2016, PA Gov. Wolf announced the Dept. of Environmental Protection would develop a general permit for sources at new or modified unconventional well sites and remote pigging stations (GP-5A). This is the proposed permit.
WV Supreme Court Decision Disallowing Survey Access for Mountain Valley PipelineMarcellus Drilling News
A West Virginia Supreme Court decision in Mountain Valley Pipeline v. Brian and Doris McCurdy. Mountain Valley needs survey access in order to scope out a route for the pipeline. Some landowners are resisting survey access and don't want the pipeline built across their land. Mountain Valley claimed eminent domain powers in order to conduct surveys. The high court has disagreed, leaving the project in a lurch. They must complete the route survey in order to get the project approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision in Harper v Muskingum Watershed Conse...Marcellus Drilling News
Anti-drilling landowners (backed by Food & Water Watch) claimed the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District had violated the deed to the land it owns by leasing that land for Utica Shale drilling. The Sixth Circuit dismissed the case. The anti-drillers lost.
NGSA's Outlook for Natural Gas Supply and Demand for 2016-2017 WinterMarcellus Drilling News
A report compiled by Energy Ventures Analysis, Inc. for the Natural Gas Supply Association predicting that winter 2016-2017 will be colder and snowier than last year, creating more demand for natural gas and ultimately driving the price of natgas higher.
Draft Environmental Assessment for drilling in the Marietta Unit of the Wayne...Marcellus Drilling News
A draft Environmental Assessment from the Bureau of Land Management that will allow limited shale drilling in Ohio's Wayne National Forest--or more specifically, in one small portion of WNF. The draft EA will accept public comments until the end of May 2016.
Annual report issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration showing oil and natural gas proved reserves, in this case for 2015. These reports are issued almost a year after the period for which they report. This report shows proved reserves for natural gas dropped by 64.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf), or 16.6%. U.S. crude oil and lease condensate proved reserves also decreased--from 39.9 billion barrels to 35.2 billion barrels (down 11.8%) in 2015. Proved reserves are calculated on a number of factors, including price.
An account of the initial response to a large fire at Statoil's Eisenbarth well pad site in Monroe County, OH which occured on June 28 around 9am. EPA reps were on the site the day of the accident and chronicle what happened, and the response to put out the fire and the resulting environmental damaged caused by the fire and the efforts to fight it.
Natural gas report covering data received up through August 2016. The monthly report highlights activities, events, and analyses of interest to public and private sector organizations associated with the natural gas industry.
PA DEP Permit for Unconventional NatGas Well Site Operations and Remote Piggi...Marcellus Drilling News
In January 2016, PA Gov. Wolf announced the Dept. of Environmental Protection would develop a general permit for sources at new or modified unconventional well sites and remote pigging stations (GP-5A). This is the proposed permit.
WV Supreme Court Decision Disallowing Survey Access for Mountain Valley PipelineMarcellus Drilling News
A West Virginia Supreme Court decision in Mountain Valley Pipeline v. Brian and Doris McCurdy. Mountain Valley needs survey access in order to scope out a route for the pipeline. Some landowners are resisting survey access and don't want the pipeline built across their land. Mountain Valley claimed eminent domain powers in order to conduct surveys. The high court has disagreed, leaving the project in a lurch. They must complete the route survey in order to get the project approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision in Harper v Muskingum Watershed Conse...Marcellus Drilling News
Anti-drilling landowners (backed by Food & Water Watch) claimed the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District had violated the deed to the land it owns by leasing that land for Utica Shale drilling. The Sixth Circuit dismissed the case. The anti-drillers lost.
NGSA's Outlook for Natural Gas Supply and Demand for 2016-2017 WinterMarcellus Drilling News
A report compiled by Energy Ventures Analysis, Inc. for the Natural Gas Supply Association predicting that winter 2016-2017 will be colder and snowier than last year, creating more demand for natural gas and ultimately driving the price of natgas higher.
Decision by NH PUC to Deny Request by Eversource Energy to Strike a Long-Term...Marcellus Drilling News
A decision by the New Hampshire Public Utility Commission disallowing a long-term contract between utility company Eversource Energy and Spectra Energy's Access Northeast natural gas pipeline to supply natural gas to New England. The contract would put Eversource's electric rate payers on the hook for some of the cost of the pipeline--as they are the ones who will get lower electric costs as a result of the gas flowing through the pipeline. The PUC put that deal to an end.
The original articles of incorporation with amendments for the Delaware Riverkeeper nonprofit "charity". The organization is, according to its charter, "restoring the Delaware River Watershed's natural balance where it has been lost and ensuring its preservation where it still exists." Yet the organization is using its money and personnel to interfere in fracking in parts of Pennsylvania (and other states) that have nothing to do with the Delaware River Basin. They are in violation of their own charter and therefore (in our opinion) in violation of their tax-exempt status.
A new report just issued by the New England Coalition for Affordable Energy says New England is at a much greater risk for higher energy costs in the short-term because of lack of new pipelines.
Pipeline Safety Alert: PHMSA Releases Emergency Order Interim Final RuleMarcellus Drilling News
A summary of the new IFR (Interim Final Rule) issued by the Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) granting the Secretary of the Dept. of Transportation broad new powers to bypass laws and regulations and make fiat decisions if he/she believes the public is in danger with respect to a pipeline.
A poll commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute on election day, Nov. 8, 2016, to ask voters what role energy played in their vote decision-making. The poll found that energy was a very important issue and played a huge role in putting Donald Trump in the White House.
FERC Order Denying Rehearing Requested by NY AG Schneiderman re Constitution ...Marcellus Drilling News
New York Attorney General Eric Scheiderman requested the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rehear and investigate the matter of tree clearing in NY along the proposed path of the Constitution Pipeline (still not built). Schneiderman alleged the Constitution should have prevented landowners from clearing trees on their own property ahead of the pipeline's approval by Lord Cuomo. FERC told Schneiderman to get lost--no rehearing of the matter.
PennEast Pipeline Response to NJDRC Comments Against Pipeline ProjectMarcellus Drilling News
PennEast Pipelines response to analysis provided to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by the New Jersey Division of the Rate Council (NJDRC). The NJDRC told FERC that PennEast isn't needed and questioned its cost recovery rate. PennEast responded to that analysis with an independent report written by Concentric Energy Advisors, which refutes (i.e. obliterates) the "incorrect assumptions" made in the NJDRC comments to FERC.
MSC Lawsuit Filed in PA Commonwealth Court Against Chapter 78a Drilling Regul...Marcellus Drilling News
A lawsuit filed by the Marcellus Shale Coalition against the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection questioning several pieces of the new Chapter 78a drilling regulations adopted by the DEP. The lawsuit does not seek to overturn the entire set of rules--just certain fuzzy aspects of the rules.
A list of the companies nominated to receive an award in recognition for excellence during 2016. The awards are issued at a gala event in March in Pittsburgh.
PennEast Pipeline responded to September comments made by the New Jersey Division of the Rate Counsel (NJDRC) that attempted to make an argument against the pipeline project. PennEast responded with an independent report written by Concentric Energy Advisors, rippping to shreds the arguments put forward by NJDRC. This is the NJDRC's lame response to being humiliated by PennEast.
The monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) from the U.S. Energy Information Administration for December 2016. This issue makes a couple of key points re natural gas: (1) EIA predicts that natural gas production in the U.S. for 2016 will see a healthy decline over 2015 levels--1.3 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) less in 2016. That's the first annual production decline since 2005! (2) The EIA predicts the average price for natural gas at the benchmark Henry Hub will climb from $2.49/Mcf (thousand cubic feet) in 2016 to a whopping $3.27/Mcf in 2017. Why the jump? Growing domestic natural gas consumption, along with higher pipeline exports to Mexico and liquefied natural gas exports.
New rules for hydraulic fracturing from the Maryland Dept. of Environment. The rules are supposedly the strictest in the nation. A quick review shows that with features like a 2,000 foot setback from private water wells, there will be very little, if any, fracking in Maryland.
Chamber of Commerce report that asks and answers the important question: What would happen if the hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas was banned in the U.S.? According to research it would lead to the loss of 15 million jobs and an average increase in the price of electricity and gas doubling.
PPA Commonwealth Court Case Ruling New Chapter 78a Drilling Rules are Cleared...Marcellus Drilling News
PA Commonwealth Court Case that ruled the Dept. of Environmental Protection's (DEP) final Chapter 78a Marcellus Drilling regulations are cleared to begin--that there is no legal reason to stop publication and adoption of the new regulations. PIOGA is opposing the new regulations.
US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit - Pollock v Energy Corporation of A...Marcellus Drilling News
On Monday, October 24, 2016, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals found that ECA did not meet its burden of proving its need for a new trial in the case involving a $1.1 million judgment to landowners. The landowners sued ECA in federal court in 2010, alleging they did not receive their proper amount of royalties under their leases because allegedly improper post-production costs were deducted. The District Court jury awarded $1.1 million in damages. ECA appealed the verdict to the Third Circuit.
The monthly tabulation and prediction from the U.S. Energy Information Administration on production and activity in the largest 7 U.S. shale plays. All 7 shale plays will experience a decrease in natural gas production from the previous month due to low commodity prices.
Annual natural gas report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Chock full of great charts and graphs and data, laying out production, imports and exports of natural gas in the U.S.
The monthly tabulation and prediction from the U.S. Energy Information Administration on production and activity in the largest 7 U.S. shale plays. All 7 shale plays will experience a decrease in natural gas production from the previous month due to low commodity prices.
Decision in a case appealed by the family of a rig worker who died in an accident drilling a well for Atlas Energy in Greene County, PA in 2007. The court found that Atlas is immune from any claims of negligence because the man killed worked for a subcontractor who was hired to drill the well. That is, if there was negligence, that negligence is on the part of the man's employer, not Atlas.
Quarterly legislative action update: Marcellus and Utica shale region (4Q16)Marcellus Drilling News
A quarterly update from the legal beagles at global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. A quarterly legislative action update for the second quarter of 2016 looking at previously laws acted upon, and new laws introduced, affecting the oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
Decision by NH PUC to Deny Request by Eversource Energy to Strike a Long-Term...Marcellus Drilling News
A decision by the New Hampshire Public Utility Commission disallowing a long-term contract between utility company Eversource Energy and Spectra Energy's Access Northeast natural gas pipeline to supply natural gas to New England. The contract would put Eversource's electric rate payers on the hook for some of the cost of the pipeline--as they are the ones who will get lower electric costs as a result of the gas flowing through the pipeline. The PUC put that deal to an end.
The original articles of incorporation with amendments for the Delaware Riverkeeper nonprofit "charity". The organization is, according to its charter, "restoring the Delaware River Watershed's natural balance where it has been lost and ensuring its preservation where it still exists." Yet the organization is using its money and personnel to interfere in fracking in parts of Pennsylvania (and other states) that have nothing to do with the Delaware River Basin. They are in violation of their own charter and therefore (in our opinion) in violation of their tax-exempt status.
A new report just issued by the New England Coalition for Affordable Energy says New England is at a much greater risk for higher energy costs in the short-term because of lack of new pipelines.
Pipeline Safety Alert: PHMSA Releases Emergency Order Interim Final RuleMarcellus Drilling News
A summary of the new IFR (Interim Final Rule) issued by the Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) granting the Secretary of the Dept. of Transportation broad new powers to bypass laws and regulations and make fiat decisions if he/she believes the public is in danger with respect to a pipeline.
A poll commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute on election day, Nov. 8, 2016, to ask voters what role energy played in their vote decision-making. The poll found that energy was a very important issue and played a huge role in putting Donald Trump in the White House.
FERC Order Denying Rehearing Requested by NY AG Schneiderman re Constitution ...Marcellus Drilling News
New York Attorney General Eric Scheiderman requested the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rehear and investigate the matter of tree clearing in NY along the proposed path of the Constitution Pipeline (still not built). Schneiderman alleged the Constitution should have prevented landowners from clearing trees on their own property ahead of the pipeline's approval by Lord Cuomo. FERC told Schneiderman to get lost--no rehearing of the matter.
PennEast Pipeline Response to NJDRC Comments Against Pipeline ProjectMarcellus Drilling News
PennEast Pipelines response to analysis provided to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by the New Jersey Division of the Rate Council (NJDRC). The NJDRC told FERC that PennEast isn't needed and questioned its cost recovery rate. PennEast responded to that analysis with an independent report written by Concentric Energy Advisors, which refutes (i.e. obliterates) the "incorrect assumptions" made in the NJDRC comments to FERC.
MSC Lawsuit Filed in PA Commonwealth Court Against Chapter 78a Drilling Regul...Marcellus Drilling News
A lawsuit filed by the Marcellus Shale Coalition against the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection questioning several pieces of the new Chapter 78a drilling regulations adopted by the DEP. The lawsuit does not seek to overturn the entire set of rules--just certain fuzzy aspects of the rules.
A list of the companies nominated to receive an award in recognition for excellence during 2016. The awards are issued at a gala event in March in Pittsburgh.
PennEast Pipeline responded to September comments made by the New Jersey Division of the Rate Counsel (NJDRC) that attempted to make an argument against the pipeline project. PennEast responded with an independent report written by Concentric Energy Advisors, rippping to shreds the arguments put forward by NJDRC. This is the NJDRC's lame response to being humiliated by PennEast.
The monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) from the U.S. Energy Information Administration for December 2016. This issue makes a couple of key points re natural gas: (1) EIA predicts that natural gas production in the U.S. for 2016 will see a healthy decline over 2015 levels--1.3 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) less in 2016. That's the first annual production decline since 2005! (2) The EIA predicts the average price for natural gas at the benchmark Henry Hub will climb from $2.49/Mcf (thousand cubic feet) in 2016 to a whopping $3.27/Mcf in 2017. Why the jump? Growing domestic natural gas consumption, along with higher pipeline exports to Mexico and liquefied natural gas exports.
New rules for hydraulic fracturing from the Maryland Dept. of Environment. The rules are supposedly the strictest in the nation. A quick review shows that with features like a 2,000 foot setback from private water wells, there will be very little, if any, fracking in Maryland.
Chamber of Commerce report that asks and answers the important question: What would happen if the hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas was banned in the U.S.? According to research it would lead to the loss of 15 million jobs and an average increase in the price of electricity and gas doubling.
PPA Commonwealth Court Case Ruling New Chapter 78a Drilling Rules are Cleared...Marcellus Drilling News
PA Commonwealth Court Case that ruled the Dept. of Environmental Protection's (DEP) final Chapter 78a Marcellus Drilling regulations are cleared to begin--that there is no legal reason to stop publication and adoption of the new regulations. PIOGA is opposing the new regulations.
US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit - Pollock v Energy Corporation of A...Marcellus Drilling News
On Monday, October 24, 2016, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals found that ECA did not meet its burden of proving its need for a new trial in the case involving a $1.1 million judgment to landowners. The landowners sued ECA in federal court in 2010, alleging they did not receive their proper amount of royalties under their leases because allegedly improper post-production costs were deducted. The District Court jury awarded $1.1 million in damages. ECA appealed the verdict to the Third Circuit.
The monthly tabulation and prediction from the U.S. Energy Information Administration on production and activity in the largest 7 U.S. shale plays. All 7 shale plays will experience a decrease in natural gas production from the previous month due to low commodity prices.
Annual natural gas report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Chock full of great charts and graphs and data, laying out production, imports and exports of natural gas in the U.S.
The monthly tabulation and prediction from the U.S. Energy Information Administration on production and activity in the largest 7 U.S. shale plays. All 7 shale plays will experience a decrease in natural gas production from the previous month due to low commodity prices.
Decision in a case appealed by the family of a rig worker who died in an accident drilling a well for Atlas Energy in Greene County, PA in 2007. The court found that Atlas is immune from any claims of negligence because the man killed worked for a subcontractor who was hired to drill the well. That is, if there was negligence, that negligence is on the part of the man's employer, not Atlas.
Quarterly legislative action update: Marcellus and Utica shale region (4Q16)Marcellus Drilling News
A quarterly update from the legal beagles at global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. A quarterly legislative action update for the second quarter of 2016 looking at previously laws acted upon, and new laws introduced, affecting the oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
An update from Spectra Energy on their proposed $3 billion project to connect four existing pipeline systems to flow more Marcellus/Utica gas to New England. In short, Spectra has put the project on pause until mid-2017 while it attempts to get new customers signed.
A letter from Rover Pipeline to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requesting the agency issue the final certificate that will allow Rover to begin tree-clearing and construction of the 511-mile pipeline through Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Michigan. If the certificate is delayed beyond the end of 2016, it will delay the project an extra year due to tree-clearing restrictions (to accommodate federally-protected bats).
DOE Order Granting Elba Island LNG Right to Export to Non-FTA CountriesMarcellus Drilling News
An order issued by the U.S. Dept. of Energy that allows the Elba Island LNG export facility to export LNG to countries with no free trade agreement with the U.S. Countries like Japan and India have no FTA with our country (i.e. friendly countries)--so this is good news indeed. Although the facility would have operated by sending LNG to FTA countries, this order opens the market much wider.
A study released in December 2016 by the London School of Economics, titled "On the Comparative Advantage of U.S. Manufacturing: Evidence from the Shale Gas Revolution." While America has enough shale gas to export plenty of it, exporting it is not as economic as exporting oil due to the elaborate processes to liquefy and regassify natural gas--therefore a lot of the gas stays right here at home, making the U.S. one of (if not the) cheapest places on the planet to establish manufacturing plants, especially for manufacturers that use natural gas and NGLs (natural gas liquids). Therefore, manufacturing, especially in the petrochemical sector, is ramping back up in the U.S. For every two jobs created by fracking, another one job is created in the manufacturing sector.
Letter From 24 States Asking Trump & Congress to Withdraw the Unlawful Clean ...Marcellus Drilling News
A letter from the attorneys general from 24 of the states opposed to the Obama Clean Power Plan to President-Elect Trump, RINO Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel and RINO House Speaker Paul Ryan. The letter asks Trump to dump the CPP on Day One when he takes office, and asks Congress to adopt legislation to prevent the EPA from such an egregious overreach ever again.
Report: New U.S. Power Costs: by County, with Environmental ExternalitiesMarcellus Drilling News
Natural gas and wind are the lowest-cost technology options for new electricity generation across much of the U.S. when cost, public health impacts and environmental effects are considered. So says this new research paper released by The University of Texas at Austin. Researchers assessed multiple generation technologies including coal, natural gas, solar, wind and nuclear. Their findings are depicted in a series of maps illustrating the cost of each generation technology on a county-by-county basis throughout the U.S.
Velocys is the manufacturer of gas-to-liquids (GTL) plants that convert natural gas (a hyrdocarbon) into other hydrocarbons, like diesel fuel, gasoline, and even waxes. This PowerPoint presentation lays out the Velocys plan to get the company growing. GTL plants have not (so far) taken off in the U.S. Velocys hopes to change that. They specialize in small GTL plants.
PA DEP Revised Permit for Natural Gas Compression Stations, Processing Plants...Marcellus Drilling News
In January 2016, Gov. Wolf announced the DEP would revise its current general permit (GP-5) to update the permitting requirements for sources at natural gas compression, processing, and transmission facilities. This is the revised GP-5.
Onerous new regulations for the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale industry proposed by the state Dept. of Environmental Protection. The new regs will, according to the DEP, help PA reduce so-called fugitive methane emissions and some types of air pollution (VOCs). This is liberal Gov. Tom Wolf's way of addressing mythical man-made global warming.
A sort of "year in review" for the gas industry in the northeast. If you could boil it all down, the word that appears prominently throughout is "delay" with respect to important natgas pipeline projects. From the Constitution, which should have already been built by now, to smaller projects, delays were the prominent trend for 2016.
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission responded to each point raised in a draft copy of the PA Auditor General's audit of how Act 13 impact fee money, raised from Marcellus Shale drillers, gets spent by local municipalities. The PUC says it's not their job to monitor how the money gets spent, only in how much is raised and distributed.
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Act 13/Impact Fees Audit by PA Auditor...Marcellus Drilling News
A biased look at how 60% of impact fees raised from PA's shale drilling are spent, by the anti-drilling PA Auditor General. He chose to ignore an audit of 40% of the impact fees, which go to Harrisburg and disappear into the black hole of Harrisburg spending. The Auditor General claims, without basis in fact, that up to 24% of the funds are spent on items not allowed under the Act 13 law.
The final report from the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection that finds, after several years of testing, no elevated levels of radiation from acid mine drainage coming from the Clyde Mine, flowing into Ten Mile Creek. Radical anti-drillers tried to smear the Marcellus industry with false claims of illegal wastewater dumping into the mine, with further claims of elevated radiation levels in the creek. After years of testing, the DEP found those allegations to be false.
FERC Order Denying Stay of Kinder Morgan's Broad Run Expansion ProjectMarcellus Drilling News
Several anti-drillers filed an appeal of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Certificate for the Kinder Morgan Broad Run Expansion Project, asking for a stay claiming a removal of 40 acres of forest for a compressor station would irreparably harm Mom Earth. FERC has ruled against the stay and told the antis Mom Earth will be just fine.
Final Environmental Impact Statement for NEXUS Gas Transmission ProjectMarcellus Drilling News
The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the NEXUS Pipeline project, a $2 billion, 255-mile interstate pipeline that will run from Ohio through Michigan and eventually to the Dawn Hub in Ontario, Canada. FERC gave the project a thumbs up, which clears the way for a Certificate to be issued in early 2017.
Schedule 13D - Stone Energy Corporation - Largest Shareholder Opposes Bankrup...Marcellus Drilling News
Stone Energy's largest investor, Thomas Satterfield, owns 9.9% of the company's stock. He doesn't want to see that stock turned into toilet paper by handing the keys over to debtholders under the current bankruptcy plan. He filed this report with the SEC opposing Stone's existing plan.
Report: Analysis of Act 13 Spending by Pennsylvania Municipalities and CountiesMarcellus Drilling News
A pair of University of Pittsburgh at Bradford professors received a grant to study the question of whether or not local towns and municipalities that receive Act 13 impact fee revenue are using that revenue for the purposes they were meant to use it. The study found that yeah, towns are using the money wisely, what they are supposed to be using it for. But the study also found it's difficult to trace every penny, so the prof recommend better reporting guidelines be used when doling out the money in future.
Hydraulic fracturing has been inferred to trigger the majority of injection-induced earthquakes in western Canada, in contrast to the midwestern United States where massive saltwater disposal is the dominant triggering mechanism. A template-based earthquake catalog from a seismically active Canadian shale play, combined with comprehensive injection data during a 4-month interval, shows that earthquakes are tightly clustered in space and time near hydraulic fracturing sites. The largest event [moment magnitude (MW) 3.9] occurred several weeks after injection along a fault that appears to extend from the injection zone into crystalline basement. Patterns of seismicity indicate that stress changes during operations can activate fault slip to an offset distance of >1 km, whereas pressurization by hydraulic fracturing into a fault yields episodic seismicity that can persist for months.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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