The controversy surrounding natural-gas drilling in the Thompson Divide area does not lend itself to easy solutions or ready options, when taken as a whole. But for one specific question – whether the ...

Two special-interest groups have distorted the unitization request for the Lake Ridge area. The Thompson Divide Coalition and the Community for Thompson Divide are attempting to circumvent the ...

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources recently revised its rules for oil and gas companies seeking to “unitize” large swaths of land for shale gas drilling and that's bringing some attention to ...

I was pleased to read the Bureau of Land Management has responded to Sens. Udall and Bennet’s attempt to derail the administrative unitization process. In his response, BLM director Bob Abbey stated ...

The casual conversationalist who is, of course, casually conversing about the development of shale oil and gas in Ohio, often conflates or misuses the terms "mandatory pooling" and "unitization." I am ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – The Carbondale-based Thompson Divide Coalition called on Glenwood Springs and Four Mile residents Wednesday to get involved with efforts to keep gas drilling out of the Thompson ...

CHARLESTON — Taking the advice offered by a federal judge, plaintiffs in a case to block West Virginia’s new natural gas unitization/forced pooling law re-filed the case against state regulators.

CHARLESTON — A federal lawsuit by property owners in the Northern Panhandle seeks to stop West Virginia’s new natural gas unitization law before it goes into effect in June. Scott Sonda and Brian ...