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...found new work - in commercial building or in booming and sometimes higher-paying industries like mining and natural gas drilling - and aren't eager to come back.Hispanic immigrants, largely from Mexico, who had filled jobs during the...
PITTSBURGH - Private landowners are reaping billions of dollars in royalties each year from the boom in natural gas drilling, transforming lives and livelihoods even as the windfall provides only a modest boost to the broader economy...
...it did absolutely nothing for jobs creation. Nor did blocking access to new federal offshore areas for oil and natural gas drilling produce any jobs.At a time when more than 13 million Americans are unemployed, you'd think that the president...
WASHINGTON - Federal policing of oil and natural gas drilling on public lands is lax and inconsistent, with only 6 percent of violations resulting in monetary fines over 13 years, House Democrats...
...a classic case of non-denial denial by a federal agency enjoying observer status courtesy of a law assigning natural gas drilling oversight to the states. Jackson wasn't saying there have been no cases of ground water contamination from this...
...influence in various parts of the federal Gulf waters would be changed. That means even if Florida objected, natural-gas drilling could be done in some areas that are 25 miles from Florida's state waters and oil drilling could be done 50...
...Alaska and The Wilderness Society have joined forces to challenge the Bush administration's proposal to expand natural gas drilling inside the refuge. In a press release, the groups contend that expanding drilling in the refuge is "contrary...
...Projections were scaled back. In January of 1997, Arco sold its interest in Tyonek Deep to Phillips. From its natural gas drilling platform already on site, Phillips drilled three wells. A drill in February of last year flowed at more than...
...Projections were scaled back. In January of 1997, Arco sold its interest in Tyonek Deep to Phillips. From its natural gas drilling platform already on site, Phillips drilled three wells. A drill in February of last year flowed at more than...
NEW YORK - Opening more of America's coastlines to oil and natural gas drilling won't cut energy prices anytime soon. And it won't greatly reduce the U.S. dependence on foreign oil. But it could bring...