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MSC Reinforces Support of Innovation, Research and Technology
Pittsburgh, Pa. – In partnership with leading energy companies, technology investors and Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ Shale Gas Innovation & […]
MSC’s Kathryn Klaber in the Beaver Co. Times: Natural Gas “Enhancing Air Quality”
A recent story (“Report says Beaver County can breathe a little easier,” April 24) underscored the important fact that our […]
New Studies Reinforce Positive Impact of Safe Natural Gas Development
Straightforward, fact-based evidence continues to mount in support of clean-burning American natural gas, which is Powering an American Renaissance. As […]
How do we educate within the local schools: public schools as well as at the collegiate level?
The Marcellus Shale Coalition is works directly with trade and technical school, community colleges and some four years universities to […]
What is more cost effective, build new refineries or repurpose existing oil refineries?
For a period of time, several Philadelphia-area refineries – a tremendous source jobs and economic activity – were in jeopardy […]
Once the questions have been answered to the satisfaction of most sane people, will the radical environmentalists still be able to stop the project like they did with the Keystone?
Since the MSC’s focus is shale development across the Appalachia region – and not energy development in other regions of […]
Do the residents in the area of the drilling really approve?
According to public opinion polls, support for natural gas production in and around communities where these activities are taking place […]
Why did we give the leases away? Why do we have to use fracking?
Land- and mineral-owners make individual decisions as it relates to contracts that permit energy companies to explore for and develop […]
Natural Gas Industry Collaborates for Successful Northeast Pa. “Energy Day” Event
Scranton, Pa. – Yesterday, in partnership with nearly two dozen local chambers of commerce and economic development organizations, America’s Natural […]
Why not clean the tank trucks?
While this question is quite vague, it is common practice across the natural gas industry to wash our trucks and […]
When a neighborhood is rendered uninhabitable due to gas leaching into the water supply, are people reimbursed for their homes and relocated?
Natural gas is a safe, tightly-regulated process. A host of regulations, along every step of the process, are in place […]
What grassroots plans does the shale project have in supporting and developing growth in the regional areas effected by the drilling?
MSC member companies are committed to creating strong working relationships with mineral- and land-owners, as well as the broader communities […]
What does this have to do with fracking?
We assume you are referring to this website. As you may know, LearnAboutShale.org was created answer any and all natural […]
How is Marcellus Shale/fracking different from other previous energy extraction processes in the state of PA?
Conventional gas reservoirs are created when natural gas migrates from an organic-rich source formation into permeable reservoir rock, where it […]
Will natural gas be available to consumers for use in automobiles? Will it be available in filing stations close to everyone and not many miles apart?
Clean-burning American natural gas is playing an increasingly growing role in powering our expanding transportation needs. Not only do compressed […]
You need to be more open to questions on the gas development and not stuff that has nothing to do with the dangers of the development of this industry.
Thanks so much for your comments. Please submit those questions, and we’d be more than willing to answer them.
If it is so safe then why don’t you REVERSE THE HALLIBURTON LOOPHOLE voluntarily?
We suppose that this question is in regard to hydraulic fracturing, the tightly-regulated, more than 60-year old well completions technology. […]
Are regulations in place?
Yes. Natural gas development is primarily governed by state law and operators have to abide by a host of federal […]
