Fracking
Environmentalists Fight to Keep Fracking Banned Along the Delaware
Environmentalists are banding together to attempt to permanently ban fracking within the Delaware River Watershed.
Thousands March in Center City Against Fossil Fuels
Thousands marched from City Hall to Independence Mall today to call for a “clean energy revolution” — protesting fossil fuel extraction methods like fracking, pipeline projects […]
Anti-Fracking Group: Democrats’ Platform Is a Pile of Crap
The environmental group Food & Water Watch isn’t fracking around. On Tuesday, the group held a press conference at City Hall to say that its […]
Councilman Curtis Jones Hosting Industry-Sponsored Fracking Tour Friday
Update (10:15 a.m., October 30th): This piece has been updated to include comment from Councilman Jones. City Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. is co-hosting an industry […]
Gas Execs Call for “Philadelphia Energy Hub”
If leaders in the energy sector have it their way, Philadelphia would become a world-class city for processing and exporting gas and liquids from the Marcellus […]
Activists Hold Pope-Themed Protest Against Fracking
Everything in Philadelphia seems to be pope-themed this month — even the protests. Activists dressed in homemade cassocks and mitres and held an anti-fracking demonstration near […]
BizFeed: Gas Drillers Are Not Happy With Tom Wolf
1. Wolf, Frackers in Heated Dispute The News: On the campaign trail, Gov. Tom Wolf promised to tax natural gas drilling in an effort to […]
Wolf Reverses Corbett Order, Bans Fracking on State Parkland
New Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is continuing to undo moves former Gov. Tom Corbett made during his last year in office. Wolf appeared at Benjamin […]
Natural Gas Price Plummets, But Fracking Tax Still a Wolf Priority
States that depend on energy resources to power their economies and budgets are tightening their belts as the prices of oil and natural gas fall, […]
Wolf Reiterates Fracking Support
Governor-elect Tom Wolf won’t be following the lead of fellow Democrat Andrew Cuomo, who on Wednesday banned the practice of fracking in New York state. […]
New York State Is Banning Fracking
In a policy decision that will no doubt be heard in Pennsylvania, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will ban fracking in the state. New York […]
Four Big Things That Happened at the Pennsylvania Society Weekend
This weekend was the annual gathering of the Pennsylvania Society, where the cream of the state’s elite (and a few reporters) whisk themselves off to […]
Sunoco Announces $2.5B Pennsylvania Pipeline Project
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. announced today a $2.5 billion pipeline that will transport natural gas liquids from the Marcellus Shale to the Marcus Hook plant […]
LISTEN: Kerkstra Talks Philly Fracking Boom on Radio Times
https://soundcloud.com/whyy-public-media/energy-boomtown-phillystyle This morning on WHYY’s Radio Times, Philadelphia magazine deputy editor Patrick Kerkstra joined Mark Alan Hughes — professor of practice at PennDesign and faculty […]
Philadelphia + a Pipeline (or Two) = America’s Next Energy Hub
About 1,400 miles from Philadelphia, at the northern edge of the Louisiana bayou, lies a spaghetti junction of steel tubing called Henry Hub, where 13 […]