Antoinette Harvey, Sr Geoscientist - Southern North Sea, Irish Sea, English Channel and UK Onshore with the Department of Energy & Climate Change in London sent this invitation for the public to comment on the papers and recommendations which DECC has published.

"We are looking for the widest possible range of views on this report, and would welcome any feedback, views or technical commentary which you might be able to provide," she writes.

Deadline for comments is 25 May 2012. 

Final Rule from EPA: Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases: Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems:  Revisions to Best Available Monitoring Method Provisions  

EPA Announces Federal Underground Injection Control program for CO2 Geologic Sequestration Wells effective September 7, 2011. 

April 14-18, 2013 • Marriott Charleston • Charleston, West Virginia

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This conference is aimed at bringing together interested parties from around the world to exchange ideas on energy production, including mining, oil and gas production and electrical power generation, and the impacts on the environment and society.

 

13-15 August 2012 | Golden Colorado

Hydraulic fracturing for both conventional and unconventional oil and gas development and production has become a hot button issue for the public and regulators in most of the United States and Canada where this technology is being used or might be used in the near future. Concern and regulation of fracking also is growing in other areas of the world, especially in Europe. There is a disconnect in most places between how the technology is applied and the real and perceived hazards to aquifers and surface owners (including induced-earthquake hazards) that have led to the contentious state of affairs.

This Geosciences Technology Workshop, co-sponsored by DEG and EMD, is intended to bring together technology developers and users with environmental specialists, regulators, and policy makers to find common ground and open channels of discussion and understanding. This should lead to more technology-based and less emotional development of policies and regulations on O&G activities, as well as improve the understanding by the O&G industry of how to avoid confrontation and improve hydraulic fracturing practices to eliminate any potential hazards to the public and surface owners.

 

All of the leadership in DEG hope you are finding our quarterly Spheres of Influence e-newsletter to be of interest and some use in your professional activities! This issue includes:

• Another of the Executive Committee’s short biographies (President-Elect 2011-12)
• Book review of The Dirty Energy Dilemma by Benjamin K. Sovacool
• The Rant: Astronaut or Astronomer?