Opening Statement for Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 21 May, 2013 Mr. Chairman, Senator Murkowski and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me here today. My name is Deborah Rogers and I am Executive Director of EnergyPolicyForum. Exportation of shale gas opens up many interesting, critically important questions. It is precisely [...]

By Deborah Rogers When the price of natural gas tanked due to severe overproduction by operators in shale gas, operators quickly turned their attention to shale oil. Clearly this was a deliberate attempt to salvage ailing balance sheets saturated with natural gas assets and, no doubt, executives hoped that it might serve as an effective [...]

By Deborah Rogers Assessing shale production honestly and accurately requires that all externalities, or created peripheral costs, be examined in a circumspect manner. It is imprudent, indeed stupid, to consider oil and gas projects without also considering the externalities which inevitably arise due to its heavy industrial nature. A careful look at costs such as [...]