From The Hill House Republicans fear they are headed toward the passage of a trillion-dollar “omnibus” spending bill after the election, despite promises from leadership for a different approach. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and his team have sought to rally support for a stopgap spending measure, needed to avoid a government shutdown on Oct. 1, by promising votes on “bite-sized” appropriations bills
From Law.com WASHINGTON — In a speech in Wisconsin in March, Hillary Clinton said something that even Donald Trump would agree with: “Whoever America elects this fall will help determine the future of the court for decades to come.” She was talking about the U.S. Supreme Court, but the same is true for the federal judiciary as a whole, where
Administration Overturns Federal Court Ruling, Halts Work on $3.8 Billion Dakota Access Pipeline In a surprise statement on Friday, the Obama administration said that it would not issue the easements necessary for construction to begin on a portion of the Dakota Access Pipeline project planned to run under Lake Oahe in North Dakota, just north of the boundaries of the
From the Alaska Dispatch News Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski struck the gavel Thursday morning to start a House-Senate conference committee that she hopes will result in the first major federal energy legislation in nearly a decade. Murkowski, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, urged her colleagues to negotiate with a particular goal in mind: a bipartisan bill devoid of provisions that
Stability is making it easier for oil and gas companies to get back to work: North America is becoming much more productive Oil prices have been on a roller coaster ride since OPEC announced that the group would no longer prop up prices in November 2014. The precipitous drop in prices created a new environment that was difficult for the
Initiative 75 (local government control over oil and gas) and 78 (mandatory 2,500-ft. setback) fall short of required signatures The Colorado Secretary of State issued a press release today, explaining how two anti-oil & gas initiatives failed to achieve the minimum number of required signatures to make the November ballot. If either attempt had succeeded, it would have put the
The industry has moved to a more optimistic perspective in the last year, and one of the challenges moving forward will be finding the talent to insure the industry evolves, Preng & Associates President David Preng told Angie Austin at EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference 21. “Last year, everyone was wondering, what’s going to happen and how long is
We are seeing signs that are encouraging to our industry, and the industry will come out of the downturn even leaner and stronger, Hein & Associates Managing Partner Jim Brendel told Angie Austin at EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference 21. Brendel conveyed optimism in regard to the current market environment, “The companies with strong balance sheets, we are starting
Hofmeister: The Issue of Low Oil Price has Nothing to Do with Shale John Hofmeister, the outspoken former president of Shell Oil Company and current chairman of Erin Energy, talked to Oil & Gas 360®’s Angie Austin about the politics of the Middle East creating a long-term effect on global oil, the importance and future of the shale boom and the
2,500-foot setback for oil and gas “would pretty much gut new development” On August 24, the Colorado Secretary of State issued a press release that announced that the two anti-frac measures seeking to become amendments to the Colorado constitution are currently in the process of having the submitted signatures counted and verified. “The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office is still tabulating the final two
Only 2 Colorado Issues Remain Ahead of Oil & Gas in Queue The Colorado Secretary of State’s office reported today that the signatures for one more of the five remaining citizen initiatives have now been counted and verified. The cigarette tax initiative was verified and will be on the Colorado ballot in November, the Secretary said in a press release.
Anti-Oil & Gas Signatures will be Counted Last; ‘Amending the Constitution’ Measure Clears Ballot Today Lynn Bartels, communications director for the Colorado Secretary of State’s office, told Oil & Gas 360® yesterday that two anti-oil and gas initiatives, which were turned in by signature collectors right as the deadline bell sounded last week, are the last in line to be counted
