Posted on 11/05/2009 4:58:44 AM PST by thackney
Yesterday we noted a blog entry from local geological consultant Art Berman, saying he resigned from his monthly column-writing duties for World Oil magazine after they spiked his November column.
Berman says he was told to back off on his posts that cast doubt on claims about natural gas shale as the country's energy saviour, to take a one month hiatus on the topic. He did for the month of October but claims World Oil spiked the November column when he returned to it.
John Royall, president and CEO of Gulf Publishing told me the column wasn't pulled due to pressure from Petrohawk (as Berman claimed online). Berman had stated his case on shale gas before, "which was good info for the market to consider," Royall said. "But he wrote on it again and again, and it was my impression that this column was becoming his soapbox on the issue, which isn't good for our audience."
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.chron.com ...
Art Berman's Last World Oil Column http://www.scribd.com/doc/22092515/Art-Berman-s-Last-World-Oil-Column
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