With a mild winter in much of the country having tamped down gas demand and with production of natural gas thriving due to the success of hydraulic fracturing technology, a.k.a. “fracking,” the country is running out of storage space and as a result some producers are slowing down, the Associated Press reports.
But just as the market seems saturated, and the Energy Department reports that prices are extremely low, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management has issued new rules that will allow for another 3,600 wells in eastern Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Ken Salazar, the secretary of the Interior, made a two-day visit to North Dakota last week and talked up a streamlined permit procedure for new natural gas drilling, which was covered by Hearst Newspapers.
New “common sense” rules on fracking, he said, would prevent the technology from becoming “the Achilles heel” of oil and gas technology.
If you’re piloting a ship through the North Atlantic and want to avoid a collision with a whale, there’s now an app for that, developed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Fox news reports.
And running a ship out of the western Aleutian chain in Alaska, to count Steller Sea Lions?
The University of Alaska and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration are using a camera-equipped aerial drone of the kind used in Afghanistan to help, the Alaska Dispatch reports.
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But just as the market seems saturated, and the Energy Department reports that prices are extremely low, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management has issued new rules that will allow for another 3,600 wells in eastern Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Ken Salazar, the secretary of the Interior, made a two-day visit to North Dakota last week and talked up a streamlined permit procedure for new natural gas drilling, which was covered by Hearst Newspapers.
New “common sense” rules on fracking, he said, would prevent the technology from becoming “the Achilles heel” of oil and gas technology.
If you’re piloting a ship through the North Atlantic and want to avoid a collision with a whale, there’s now an app for that, developed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Fox news reports.
And running a ship out of the western Aleutian chain in Alaska, to count Steller Sea Lions?
The University of Alaska and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration are using a camera-equipped aerial drone of the kind used in Afghanistan to help, the Alaska Dispatch reports.
nytimes.com
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