Posted on 01/10/2023 2:39:47 AM PST by Libloather
The natural gas industry in Ohio has gained a victory of sorts after Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation that allows for a broader expansion of drilling for oil and gas in state parks.
The bill, which has been very controversial, also defines natural gas as a source of “green energy.”
A state law from 2011 provided state agencies with authority to lease out state lands for oil and gas exploration and production projects if they choose to. The legislation, House Bill 507, modifies this language. Instead of saying state agencies “may” lease out state lands for oil and gas exploration, the bill signed by the governor says a state agency “shall” accept a lease, provided certain conditions are met.
“Beginning on the effective date of this amendment, and ending on the effective date of the rules adopted under section 155.34 of the Revised Code, a state agency shall lease, in good faith, a formation within a parcel of land that is owned or controlled by the state agency for the exploration for and development and production of oil or natural gas,” the bill reads.
The bill also says “green energy includes energy generated by using natural gas as a resource.” Unsurprisingly, the legislation was introduced by the Ohio Oil and Gas Association as a means to push the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission to expedite the approval process of oil and gas drilling on state lands.
House Bill 507 has been very controversial, especially among environmental advocates. "Green energy" refers to energy sources that do not involve the use of fossil fuels, such as solar and wind. Natural gas is a fossil fuel extracted from the earth and composed largely of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The production, transport and combustion of natural gas can contribute...
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Agreed. Oil is natural and so is nuclear and thus green. Checkmate, leftists.
Bring Anchor Hocking back!
Coal is from trees….
I only know Anchor Steam
Shouldn’t need a law for common sense but then again government has none.
Agree that since nat gas, oil, coal, etc are taken from ‘Mudder Gaea’ they should be considered ‘green’. Nuclear is a bit of a different animal albeit the most powerful of them all. So enjoy the suck greenies. Your devotion to the wimpy energy production of wind/solar as compared to nuclear is laughable.
There is a place for electrical power and there is a place for fossil based fuels working together as the majority energy providers. And there is a place for wind/solar which is in remote areas of the planet. Touting wind/solar as the primary energy source for any population center of any significant size is foolhardy.
If you can call CO2 a pollutant and define marriage as between two men, you can call whatever you want “green”.
Anchor Hocking 11-Cup Rectangular Food Storage ContainersA.H. is always my choice over Chinamen Glass.
Uranium and thorium are naturally occurring elements, and nuclear fission chain reactions are naturally occurring processes.
There are two gas wells going up here in SE Michigan right in the middle of cornfields. The feds can’t control private property with a pen stroke the same way Zao Xiden did, apparently. No visible pipeline dug either, maybe they are compressing the gas to liquid for trucking out?
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Doubt that they are compressing to liquid on site. That would be very dangerous.
No so much dangerous as wildly inefficient. There will be "gathering lines" laid from the wells to a central processing plant.
My only beef with the gas industry is that they screw landowners royally on the leasing of righrs-of-way for these gathering lines. (I'm right on the Marcellus Shale - wells all around me and a processing plant a long mile up the road.)
What happened to the refinery and rail installation on part of 400 acres of native Indian land in North Dakota....would refine oil and gas from wells on the property.....Anyone know....?...Thanks in advance.
PS..the remaining acreage would be devoted to raising a Buffalo herd for meat sales.
Though written as a statement of fact, the degree of the contribution is much debated by real scientists. This law, though, brings up a critical point. Once laws are written that define things that are 'green', laws can also be written that define things that are NOT green. It's time to buy some popcorn, and watch this all play out.
Yep.
controversial - Anything the left does not like.
I think natural gas just identifies as green.
I think the important bit is that burning natural gas emits very little CO2. Not that that is important to anyone but a delusional treehugger, but there is that.
EU did the same thing — nuclear and Ngas are green.
Here is hoping that the treehugger TWOT’s gag on this. They have made the fake CO2 a crisis, and now orgs are coming back with: “Well, this does not emit CO2, so it is OK with y’all, right?”
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