Category: Hoyt Royalty News
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US Approves Expanded Gas Exports
US Approves Expanded Gas Exports Obama administration approves $10 billion natural gas export facility in Texas. Just a few years ago we were building import terminals. What a difference shale gas has made to the strength of the US economy. Dow Chemical has been in opposition to exporting gas from the US because they say…
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Herder Hunting Club v. Keller 2010 Title Wash Decision
Another interesting case in PA that upholds the rights of property owners. Involves an 1899 mineral rights reservation and a 1935 tax sale. A number of other cases also cited. September 29, 2010. See the complete filing here: Herder Spring Hunting Club v. Keller. It is also below, however there may be some typos below due to the copy and paste…
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Sullivan County Court Rules onTitle Wash in Meske v Davidge
In the Case of Meske vs Davidge, the Sullivan County Court rules on the constitutionality of the practice of “title-washing”. The Davidges, for whom the ruling was in favor, are one of the families similar to the Hoyts as parties who severed the mineral rights from the surface properties in the late 1800’s, and still…
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Rise in US Gas Production Fuels Unexpected Plunge in Emmissions
Wall Street Journal Article. April 18, 2013 By RUSSELL GOLD U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions have fallen dramatically in recent years, in large part because the country is making more electricity with natural gas instead of coal. Energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that is widely believed to contribute to global warming, have fallen 12%…
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Should Fracking be Regulated by the Federal Government?
From the Wall Street Journal: April 15, 2013. This is not the complete article, which can be found here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323495104578314302738867078.html?mod=WSJ_JREnergy_4_2_RIGHT Fracking supporters say it could set America on the road to energy independence and drastically change our economic prospects while helping address climate change. But who should be in charge of regulating fracking? Fracking—short for…
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Gas Wells in PA Up; Revenue to Towns Down
Gas Wells in PA Up; Revenue to Towns Down While the number of natural gas wells in Pennsylvania increased by 26% to 5,500 this year, revenues from fees to municipalities are down. The culprit? The low price of natural gas. But in rosier news, gas prices have increased 50% to almost $4.00 from about $2.00…
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Craig Mayer Testifies Regarding Title Wash and SB 258
Craig Mayer, General Counsel of Pennsylvania General Energy testified before the State Environmental Resources and Energy Committee on March 19th, 2013 regarding title wash as it relates to oil and gas mineral estates and mineral rights in Pennsylvania. His comments were in opposition to SB258. In them, he states, “SB 258 alters basic property law…
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Energy Companies and Environmental Groups Agree on New Fracking Standards
Original story by AP, March 20, 2013. Reported by Cleveland.com http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/03/both_sides_agree_on_tough_new.html PITTSBURGH — In an unlikely partnership between longtime adversaries, some of the nation’s biggest energy companies and environmental groups have agreed on a voluntary set of standards for gas and oil fracking in the Northeast that appear to go further than existing state…
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Keystone Pipeline and Our Accidental Energy Independence
This morning’s NY Times features and editorial by Thomas L. Friedman titled “No to Keystone. Yes to Crazy.” In it, Friedman asks, “Who wants the U.S. to facilitate the dirtiest extraction of the dirtiest crude from tar sands in Canada’s far North?” It’s a rhetorical question, of course, because Friedman thinks that Obama will soon…
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Gas Boom Projected to Grow for Decades
BY RUSSELL GOLD – WALL STREET JOURNAL U.S. natural-gas production will accelerate over the next three decades, new research indicates, providing the strongest evidence yet that the energy boom remaking America will last for a generation. The most exhaustive study to date of a key natural-gas field in Texas, combined with related research under way…
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