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Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Aug 29, 2024

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Donation of oil and gas industry standards to Penn College enhances curriculum; Penn College gets grant from Coterra Energy; $500K gift aids laboratory upgrades at WVU Statler College; NATIONAL: Exxon joins OPEC in warning of looming oil supply crisis; Hydrogen may be bad bet for gas turbine makers; CBS attacks plastic recycling using…

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CBS Turns Its Airwaves Over to Rockefeller-funded Media to Attack Plastics Recycling

The decision by CBS News to partner with the activist “news” website Inside Climate News (ICN) for a story on plastic recycling should raise ­­journalistic alarm bells, especially when readers are left without any information or any acknowledgement about ICN’s funders and its mission to finance litigation and activism campaigns against American energy and industrial companies. Particularly troubling is the failure

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UK Windfall Tax Increase Continues to Drive Away North Sea Investment

Last month, the UK’s Labour government delivered its pre-election pledge to lift the windfall tax (formally known as the Energy Profits Levy) on oil and gas companies operating in the North Sea by three percent – with the total tax now reaching 78 percent.   As Energy in Depth discussed, the announcement sparked outcry from stakeholders

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Range Water Line Burst and Sent a PIG Flying Through the Air

We bet you never thought that old idiom about pigs flying was true. In this case, it is! Range Resources operates a temporary above-ground water pipeline in Mount Pleasant Township (Washington County), PA. The pipeline (essentially a giant water hose) flows Ohio River water to Range’s fracking sites. Range sent a PIG (pipeline inspection gauge)…

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United Mineworkers Union Smells Money in Plugging Old PA O&G Wells

“Follow the money.” Never a truer phrase spoken. “The fix is in” is another trite but true phrase. Put the two together, and you have an apt description of the latest news to come from Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration — that the state is now working with (giving money to) the United Mine Workers of…

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The Biggest Customers for More M-U NatGas in VA, NC, SC

Last week, MDN brought you an article from RBN Energy detailing how more electricity and natural gas will soon be needed in Virginia and the Carolinas for a plethora of new projects in the works (see Pipelines to the Rescue! Delivering M-U Gas to Va. & Carolinas). That post focused on two pipelines that flow…

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NatGas Kept Lights & AC On During New England Summer Heat Wave

New England’s power grid would have gone offline this summer without natural gas. Electricity generation using fossil fuels increased in New England to meet the additional air-conditioning demand during heat waves in June and July. Natural gas-fired electricity generation made up 56% of New England’s generation mix during the week of the June 16 heat…

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Report: PJM Electric Grid in Peril Due to PA Gov. Shapiro Policies

PJM Interconnection is the largest U.S. power grid operator, serving 65 million people in 13 states plus the District of Columbia (including PA, OH, and WV). PJM supplies power to more than 20% of the U.S. economy. Most of the states in PJM are not energy self-sufficient. They don’t produce enough electricity to meet their…

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