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LyondellBasell closing a PP resin unit in Italy

LyondellBasell Industries is closing a polypropylene resin unit in Italy in a move that will remove more than a half billion pounds of annual production capacity from the market. This post appeared first on Plastics News.

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Dominion Energy Loses Mind – Sells Remaining LDC NatGas Businesses

Yesterday, Dominion Energy and Enbridge co-announced that Dominion has agreed to sell what we think (not 100% sure) are the remaining natural gas local distribution companies (LDCs) that Dominion owns to Enbridge for $14.0 billion, which includes $9.4 billion in cash plus the assumption of debt. The deal includes three LDCs–The East Ohio Gas Company,…

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$2B WV Hydrogen Proj Taps Battelle to Develop Carbon Capture System

In August, MDN told you about a new $2 billion hydrogen project coming to West Virginia (see $2B Hydrogen Project Announces for WV – FidelisH2 in Mason Co.). Fidelis New Energy announced it had selected Mason County for a “net-zero” hydrogen production facility and low carbon microgrid, which it has dubbed The Mountaineer GigaSystem. The…

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2 More Out-of-State Protesters Arrested for Blocking MVP Constr.

On Saturday, August 26, a radicalized out-of-state “protester” (i.e., criminal) chained herself to a piece of excavating equipment being used in Montgomery County, Va., to drill and install the final pieces of Mountain Valley Pipeline (see Out-of-State MVP Protester Delays Drilling 7 Hrs – Arrested, Removed). That act of lawlessness was followed up by an…

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PA DEP O&G Head Responds to Fake Pitt Studies on Fracking & Cancer

Yesterday, the Pennsylvania State Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) provided updates for various issues to the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board (TAB) at a meeting held in Harrisburg and online. TAB’s mission is to increase transparency and communication about regulating the shale drilling industry in PA. TAB is authorized under the 2012 Oil and…

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Anti-Marcellus RINO Intros Bill to Block All PA Injection Wells

Pennsylvania State Rep. Charity Grimm Krupa (Republican In Name Only from Fayette County) has turned against the Marcellus industry. Yesterday, Krupa introduced legislation, House Bill (HB) 1656, that bans drilling new wastewater injection wells in the state, making it much harder to drill new shale wells. Companies end up drilling fewer wells without a place…

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FERC Chairman: Natural Gas Is Critical for Future Energy System

Natural gas is a critical component of the future energy system, according to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Willie L. Phillips. Chairman Phillips, a Biden appointee, made the remarks at the Gastech Conference – the leading LNG global event – in Singapore this week, explaining: “This convening of global energy leaders at Gastech in Singapore

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Climate Change “Science” Is Nasty Political Sausage

Climate Change “Science” Is Nasty Political Sausage Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York   … [Editor’s Note: Climate change has been continuous since the dawn of Planet Earth but today the science behind it has evolved in ugly political directions that distort reality.] Regular readers of

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Exclusive: Frontier Carbon Solutions’ First Steps to Sequestration [WATCH]

In this Hart Energy LIVE Exclusive, Hart Energy’s Editorial Director Jordan Blum is at the Carbon & ESG Strategies Conference with Robby Rockey, the president and co-CEO of Frontier Carbon Solutions, a carbon storage developer building the sequestration infrastructure needed to support carbon capture in the U.S. Mountain West’s hydrocarbon economies.   This post appeared first

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