Frack Check WV » Byron Dorgan https://www.frackcheckwv.net Just another WordPress site Wed, 20 Mar 2024 22:41:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Control the Boom or Face Federal Regulation Warns Industry Advocate https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/10/04/control-the-boom-or-face-federal-regulation-warns-industry-advocate/ https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/10/04/control-the-boom-or-face-federal-regulation-warns-industry-advocate/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:45:06 +0000 Dee Fulton http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=3194

Former Senator Byron Dorgan

Former US Senator Byron Dorgan was the keynote speaker at a two-day American Petroleum Institute conference in Pittsburgh that kicked off today.  ”A wave of new U.S. oil and gas projects will face heightened federal regulation if the petroleum industry and state regulators can’t control the side effects of the boom, …. Dorgan warned an industry conference here today” Greenwire reported.  (Must be paid subscriber to access Greenwire online.)

“No matter what some might think, we don’t sit around the floor of the Senate saying, ‘What can we regulate today?’” …. “People begin to complain. Groups begin to complain”  Dorgan said.

Dorgan, who hails from North Dakota, is on record as a defender of fracking.  An independent journal called That’s My Congress reported in an August 2010 post that although Dorgan did not run  for re-election in 2010, he accepted $115,450 from the oil and gas industry as if he were a contender.

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