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One of the founding companies for the Idaho Petroleum Council was recognized last month by the American Gas Association. Intermountain Gas Company was recognized as one of the recipients of the 2012 AGA Safety Achievement Award. “America’s natural gas utilities operate the safest, most reliable energy delivery system in the

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The always-good EnergyTomorrow Blog has a great roundup of a new proposal from the federal Bureau of Land Management to regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal land. Certainly, BLM’s aim with this rule, compared to a previous version, was to take hydraulic fracturing regulation in a better direction – acknowledging the

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California and Texas are different in many ways. According to a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal, their respective approaches to gas and oil exploration is one of the biggest differences of all. While one state is booming from its sensible approach, the other is shunning economic benefits due

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The Ontario Argus-Observer is a daily newspaper covering eastern Oregon and western Idaho. In a recent opinion piece, editor Scott McIntosh writes about the outstanding economic potential possible thanks to the exploration in that region for natural gas. Kit Kamo, of the Snake River Economic Development Alliance, tells me that

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Idaho Falls TV station KIDK had a report yesterday about truckers in East Idaho who would like to transition away from diesel fuel and convert their trucks to clean, homegrown natural gas. Idaho trucker Charles Hampton spends an average of $400-$500 a day on diesel gas, but doesn’t think companies

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This quote made some waves this week: “And here we are in the U.S., with more natural gas than any other country in the world, and we aren’t doing a thing about it. It’s just amazing to me that these dumb $%&#s in D.C. don’t see this opportunity and try

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Our colleagues at the Northwest Gas Association are out today with their annual Gas Outlook Report. From the NWGA website: Released annually, the Gas Outlook is a detailed ten-year look at expected natural gas demand, supply availability and prices in the Northwest. The Outlook offers unique insight, representing a consensus

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Earlier this month, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter signed into law a measure supported by the Idaho Petroleum Council and our members. The new law clarifies that wells themselves are not subject to our state’s personal property tax on business equipment, a tax commonly used on furniture and equipment. Click here

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An op-ed out earlier this week questions a federal push to use increased taxes on oil and gas in order to pay for a push into renewable energy. Here’s an excerpt: In addition to looking to oil and natural gas to fund the Energy Security Trust, the White House is

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In this latest newsletter we highlight several stories which show the increasingly challenging reasoning used by opponents of our industry.  A story in the Wall Street Journal shows how the power of celebrity is moving environmental groups to oppose natural gas, even though it is in direct conflict with those

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