Unconventional Oil and Natural Gas Production, Health, and Social Perspectives on Fracking

This chapter examines Article IX of the Oklahoma constitution, which concerns the powers, limits, and regulation of corporations. The prodigious length of the article reflects the importance of corporations in the economic life of Oklahoma, and the determination of the framers to bring them under regulatory control, to the point of micromanagement. Concern about discriminatory rates charged by railroads and pipelines was foremost, but the authority conferred by Article IX is broad enough to allow the legislature to regulate a variety of other enterprises as well, including electric, gas, and water companies; oil and natural gas production; and conservation, cotton gins, motor carriers, telephone and telegraph lines; and even ice plants. The framers borrowed freely from the constitutions and statutes of other states—especially the Virginia constitution, the Texas constitution, and the Texas Railway Act—as models for Article IX. Whole sections were often copied verbatim. Moreover, often competing strains of waning Populism and rising Progressivism of the early 1900s pervade this article.

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The Impact of Removing Tax Preferences for U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Production: Measuring Tax Subsidies by an Equivalent Price Impact Approach

10.3386/w22537 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Gilbert Metcalf

Keyword(s):

Natural Gas ◽

Gas Production ◽

Price Impact ◽

Natural Gas Production ◽

Tax Subsidies ◽

Oil And Natural Gas ◽

The Impact

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Distribution of Petroleum and Aromatic Hydrocarbons at a Former Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production Facility

Soil and Sediment Contamination An International Journal ◽

10.1080/15320380601166439 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 143-158 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

D. A. Soukup ◽

A. L. Ulery ◽

Steve Jones

Keyword(s):

Natural Gas ◽

Crude Oil ◽

Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽

Gas Production ◽

Production Facility ◽

Natural Gas Production ◽

Oil And Natural Gas

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The Impact of Removing Tax Preferences for US Oil and Natural Gas Production: Measuring Tax Subsidies by an Equivalent Price Impact Approach

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists ◽

10.1086/693367 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 1-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Gilbert E. Metcalf

Keyword(s):

Natural Gas ◽

Gas Production ◽

Price Impact ◽

Natural Gas Production ◽

Tax Subsidies ◽

Oil And Natural Gas ◽

The Impact

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Developmental and reproductive effects of chemicals associated with unconventional oil and natural gas operations

Reviews on Environmental Health ◽

10.1515/reveh-2014-0057 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 92

Author(s):

Ellen Webb ◽

Sheila Bushkin-Bedient ◽

Amanda Cheng ◽

Christopher D. Kassotis ◽

Victoria Balise ◽

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Keyword(s):

Water Pollution ◽

Reproductive Health ◽

Natural Gas ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Gas Production ◽

Ethyl Benzene ◽

Potential Health ◽

Early Postnatal Development ◽

Unconventional Oil ◽

Oil And Natural Gas

AbstractUnconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations have the potential to increase air and water pollution in communities located near UOG operations. Every stage of UOG operation from well construction to extraction, operations, transportation, and distribution can lead to air and water contamination. Hundreds of chemicals are associated with the process of unconventional oil and natural gas production. In this work, we review the scientific literature providing evidence that adult and early life exposure to chemicals associated with UOG operations can result in adverse reproductive health and developmental effects in humans. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) [including benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, and xylene (BTEX) and formaldehyde] and heavy metals (including arsenic, cadmium and lead) are just a few of the known contributors to reduced air and water quality that pose a threat to human developmental and reproductive health. The developing fetus is particularly sensitive to environmental factors, which include air and water pollution. Research shows that there are critical windows of vulnerability during prenatal and early postnatal development, during which chemical exposures can cause potentially permanent damage to the growing embryo and fetus. Many of the air and water pollutants found near UOG operation sites are recognized as being developmental and reproductive toxicants; therefore there is a compelling need to increase our knowledge of the potential health consequences for adults, infants, and children from these chemicals through rapid and thorough health research investigation.

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Concurrent variation in oil and gas methane emissions and oil price during the COVID-19 pandemic

10.5194/acp-2020-1175 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

David R. Lyon ◽

Benjamin Hmiel ◽

Ritesh Gautam ◽

Mark Omara ◽

Kate Roberts ◽

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Keyword(s):

Natural Gas ◽

Commodity Prices ◽

Oil Prices ◽

The United States ◽

Methane Emissions ◽

Gas Production ◽

Satellite Observations ◽

Permian Basin ◽

Natural Gas Production ◽

Oil And Natural Gas

Abstract. Methane emissions associated with the production, transport, and use of oil and natural gas increase the climatic impacts of energy use; however, little is known about how emissions vary temporally and with commodity prices. We present airborne and ground-based data, supported by satellite observations, to measure weekly to monthly changes in total methane emissions in the United States’ Permian Basin during a period of volatile oil prices associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. As oil prices declined from ~$ 60 to $ 20 per barrel, emissions changed concurrently from 3.4 % to 1.5 % of gas production; as prices partially recovered, emissions increased back to near initial values. Concurrently, total oil and natural gas production only declined by a maximum of ~10 % from the peak values seen in the months prior to the crash. Activity data indicate that a rapid decline in well development and subsequent effects on associated gas flaring and midstream infrastructure throughput are the likely drivers of temporary emission reductions. Our results, along with past satellite observations, suggest that under more typical price conditions, the Permian Basin is in a state of overcapacity in which rapidly growing natural gas production exceeds midstream capacity and leads to high methane emissions.

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