Your Legislature has adjourned after enacting significant bills affecting the energy industry. To sum it up, the industry has friends in high places whenever the Lege is in session (Alternative energy was in jeopardy for a...more
6/24/2025
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Energy Projects ,
Infrastructure ,
New Legislation ,
Nuclear Power ,
Oil & Gas ,
Orphan Wells ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Renewable Energy ,
State Legislatures ,
State Taxes ,
Texas ,
Water ,
Wind Power
Who owns produced water in Texas? And what is produced water anyway – oil and gas waste and part of the mineral estate, or groundwater and part of the surface estate? We may be closer to an answer to these questions now...more
Unitex WI LLC v. CT Land and Cattle Company LLC rejected the surface owner’s effort to force the mineral lessee to bury a pipeline below plow depth. Surface owner CT’s claim was based on a mineral lease signed by former owner...more
If you deny the administrative state’s insatiable lust for dominion over the most mundane aspects of your everyday life, consider Louisiana, et al v. U.S. Department of Energy. Its more gradual than the noose but just as...more
Landowner and mineral owner (that includes you, lessee): Under ETC Texas Pipeline, Ltd. v. Ageron Energy, LLC, your right to sue for damages for tort or trespass could pass into history before you even know you have a claim....more
2/29/2024
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Damages ,
Energy Policy ,
Injury-in-Fact ,
Land Owners ,
Mineral Exploration ,
Mineral Extraction ,
Mineral Leases ,
Mineral Rights ,
Oil & Gas ,
Standing ,
Tort ,
Trespass
A lot, it turns out. The Biden Administration, bending the knee to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, has paused approval of new LNG export facilities. (In terms of influence on the President, this “wing” is...more
2/7/2024
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Carbon Emissions ,
Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Projects ,
Environmental Policies ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Infrastructure ,
Liquid Natural Gas ,
Natural Resources ,
Oil & Gas ,
Pollution Control ,
Regulatory Agenda
About the same as what happened at COP27.
The 70,000+ fabulists, opportunists, and assorted acolytes comprising the congregation of the Church of Our Holy Mother of the Suffering Planet celebrated another high mass in,...more
12/21/2023
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Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
COP ,
Energy Policy ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Environmental Summit ,
Fossil Fuel ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Infrastructure ,
Oil & Gas
A quiz: What do Big Oil and Galileo, and maybe you, have in common? Answer is...
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California has passed Senate Bill 1137, which will prohibit drilling of new oil and gas wells and reworking of existing wells in certain areas.
Here is SB 1137 in legislativese (analysis comes first, then the text)...more
7/19/2023
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California ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Reform ,
Infrastructure ,
Mineral Exploration ,
Mineral Extraction ,
Oil & Gas ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Well Drilling
You might recall our posts on litigation by states, counties, and cities blaming a host of calamities, real and imagined, past and future, on Big Oil. The producers tried their best to remove the cases to federal court. In a...more
5/17/2023
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Clean Energy ,
Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Reform ,
Environmental Policies ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Infrastructure ,
Jurisdiction ,
Net Zero ,
Oil & Gas ,
Pollution Control
We’ll end the year end with a look at “COP27”, the all-expense-paid shindig that was the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, featuring exaggerations, hysteria, and outright misstatements burning with...more
Its time again to report on climate-related news from a perspective other than the alarmists. I’ll leave it to those who know more than I....more
In City of San Mateo, et al v. Chevron Corporation, et al, six California jurisdictions sued 13 energy company defendants for global warming-related claims. -
The question in this round was whether the federal district...more
Of course it is. (Apologies for the clickbait.) If further reading would damage you, I recommend a subscription to the Guardian. Otherwise, consider these points of view when conversing with those in need of enlightenment....more
Most bills filed in each legislative session fail. For the most part we are thankful for that. But today we summarize a few that survived while you weren’t paying attention. ...more
9/9/2021
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Cause of Action Accrual ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Eminent Domain ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Reform ,
Fracking ,
Horizontal Wells ,
Land Owners ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Natural Gas ,
Natural Resources ,
Oil & Gas ,
Public Utilities Commission ,
Quitclaim Deeds ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Royalties ,
Solar Energy
I prepared this post before Ida. It might now be perceived as cynical, or unsympathetic to the plight of those affected in South Louisiana and the Northeast. Is the intensity of hurricanes exacerbated by global warming? Some...more
9/7/2021
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Carbon Emissions ,
Climate Change ,
Energy & Climate Debates ,
Energy Policy ,
Environmental Policies ,
Exploration and Production Assets ,
Global Warming ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Infrastructure ,
Oil & Gas ,
Supply and Demand
This is the conclusion of a five part series reviewing False Alarm, How Climate Panic Costs us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, by Bjorn Lomborg. ...more
This is a continuation of a five part series reviewing False Alarm, How Climate Panic Costs us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, by Bjorn Lomborg....more
4/29/2021
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Carbon Taxes ,
Clean Energy ,
Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Policy ,
Environmental Policies ,
Fossil Fuel ,
Infrastructure ,
Oil & Gas ,
Paris Agreement ,
Solar Energy ,
Wind Power
This is a continuation of a five part series reviewing False Alarm: How Climate Panic Costs us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg. ...more
4/8/2021
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Carbon Taxes ,
Clean Energy ,
Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Policy ,
Environmental Policies ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Oil & Gas ,
Renewable Energy ,
Solar Energy ,
Wind Power
EXTREME WEATHER OR EXTREME EXAGGERATION?
About half of Wallace-Wells’s book, Uninhabitable Earth, is devoted to what he describes as the “Elements of Chaos” that will result from man-made climate change unless fossil fuels...more
Joe Biden’s inauguration as President of the United States promises to bring the issue of climate change to the fore in the United States like never before. There is likely no issue on the horizon more likely to affect the...more
2/17/2021
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Carbon Emissions ,
Clean Energy ,
Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Policy ,
Environmental Policies ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Infrastructure ,
Oil & Gas ,
Paris Agreement
The recently passed Consolidated Appropriations Act, providing additional COVID pandemic relief, also includes important extensions for renewable energy tax credits....more
Now that our new president has been elected (Proud Boys, its over!), let’s take a look at what people smarter than I are predicting it will mean for the domestic oil and gas industry and the climate. In summary: bad for one,...more
12/15/2020
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Carbon Emissions ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Reform ,
Fracking ,
Net Zero ,
Oil & Gas ,
Paris Agreement ,
Renewable Energy ,
Solar Energy ,
Wind Power
The focus from many quarters on “Environmental, Social, & Governance” is intensifying. If you attended TIPRO’s annual summer conference week before last you heard Rep. Kenny Marchant confirm his belief that ESG considerations...more
Gas flaring, especially in the Permian and the Eagle Ford, is coming in hot these days at the Texas Railroad Commission. Presented here are viewpoints from several stakeholders in the discussion. My comments are summaries....more