Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman was in court Friday for another chapter of the Pigs to Rigs case, where Bill Huston was forced to admit he never saw dumping he claimed he had. Unless the truth is revealed, the lie will live on. I saw that on
Read More...Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Absent Andy Dinniman is at it again, pushing a bill to suspend Pennsylvania PUC and DEP regulation of natural gas liquid pipelines. It’s a stupid stunt. When it comes to pipeline development, Sen. Dinniman says he just wants to ensure it’s done right and done safely. The reality
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Officers from 10 Western Susquehanna County fire companies attended a dinner and safety discussion hosted by Cabot Oil & Gas on March 20. As natural gas drilling escalates in Susquehanna County, so too does the amount of traffic associated with the industry and the need for first responders
Read More...The latest edition of the MDN Weekly Digest is now ready. The digest is the meat and “essence” of each story for all posts appearing on the MDN website during the past week, collected in a single PDF document capable of being downloaded and printed. The Weekly Digest is available to paying subscribers only as
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. The facts are the facts: Renewables such as wind and solar get lots of positive press. But last year
Read More...The U.S.’s largest exporter of LNG has said that deals for the supercooled fuel with China are on hold until both countries resolve a trade spat that has disrupted the shipping of goods from soyabeans to medical equipment. Eric Bensaude, a top executive at Houston-based Cheniere Energy Inc. (NYSE American: LNG), said negotiations with Chinese
Read More...... … … Wind and solar tax credits are horribly distorting our energy markets and need to be reined in before we end up like Germany with quadrupled electric rates. The U.S. Treasury estimates that the Production Tax Credit will cost taxpayers $40.12 billion from 2018 to 2027, making it the most expensive energy subsidy
Read More...West Virginia Governor Jim Justice vetoed legislation this week that would have provided needed funding to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection for plugging the state’s more than 4,000 orphaned and abandoned oil and natural gas wells. While Gov. Justice acknowledged the revenue that would have been generated by HB 2673 – up to
Read More...South America offshore oil and gas development is moving into a new age as a result of massive new discoveries—particularly offshore Brazil and Guyana—and falling breakevens that make large-scale developments more financially attractive. The combination of the two has made South America offshore development one of the most attractive plays on the globe. According to a recent report by GlobalData, the
Read More...March 29, 2019 Updated 3/29/2019 Email Print New York is poised to become the second state to adopt a plastic bag ban. Lawmakers in Albany are heading to a vote on a plan that would ban plastic retail bags and give cities and counties the choice of levying a 5-cent fee on paper bags. Details
Read More...March 29, 2019 Updated 3/29/2019 Email Print Carlyle Global Partners, a long-term investment unit of the Carlyle Group private equity firm, will take a minority investor stake in the asphalt roofing and building materials business of Tamko Building Products Inc. in a transaction expected to close in the second quarter. However, Tamko’s composite decking business,
Read More...Oil price volatility is a phrase that sits at the core of oil and gas reality. Since the oil price crashed in 2014, the “lower for longer” philosophy has crystallized the industry’s thinking. By undertaking a digital transformation and standardization strategy, the industry has slashed the cost of producing a barrel of oil to allow
Read More...March 29, 2019 Updated 3/29/2019 Email Print Radva Corp. Radva Corp. is a supplier of expanded polystyrene and expanded polypropylene protective packaging and a leading recycler of EPS. Greer, S.C.-based Huntington Foam LLC will acquire the assets of Radford, Va.-based Radva Corp. to expand its reach in the region and its product offering of thermally
Read More...March 29, 2019 Updated 3/29/2019 Email Print Joe Wilssens/File photo Rich Shaffer at NPE 2015. Rick Shaffer has resigned his position as managing director of the western region of Westfall Technik Inc., the Las Vegas-based holding company that’s been on a buying spree since it was formed in 2017. The move was effective immediately, Westfall
Read More...March 29, 2019 Updated 3/29/2019 Email Print As You Sow MacKerron Following pressure from a green shareholder activist group, ExxonMobil Chemical Co. agreed March 27 to expand its public reporting around resin pellet spills from its factories. Under terms of an agreement reached with Oakland, Calif-based As You Sow, ExxonMobil will begin to report this
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