I especially enjoyed his reporting on how some environmentalists are for gas drilling despite the inflammatory water faucets and cancer clusters: You don’t have to be working at FAIR to ask the question which environmentalists ? -Louis Proyect.
Source: Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist (2010) Read More
Halliburton, long associated with hydraulic fracturing technology, became synonymous with the so-called “Halliburton loophole” in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which exempted most fracking from federal Safe Drinking Water Act oversight. As a global oilfield services leader, the company’s influence extends from well design to policy debate.
Source: Solutions for Today's Energy Challenges - Halliburton (2010) Read More
The London lawyer accused by American authorities of helping KBR and its partners bribe Nigerian officials lost his battle against extradition, marking a major chapter in one of the largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases tied to global energy contracts. The prosecution stemmed from a decade-long scheme involving liquefied natural gas projects on Bonny Island, Nigeria — a scandal that ultimately led Halliburton and KBR to pay hundreds of millions in penalties and intensified scrutiny of corruption within multinational energy ventures.
Source: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FPCA) Blog (2011) Read More
“Natural gas is the ugly duckling of the commodities,” said Ben Smith, president of First Enercast Financial, an information vendor serving energy markets.
Source: Marketwatch | Commodities Corner (2011) Read More