Industry News

New Lithium-from-Brine Plant Coming to Northeast Pa. Marcellus

A new player is entering the Marcellus looking to extract lithium from shale brine (wastewater), and it’s doing it in a big way in Susquehanna County in the northeastern corner of Pennsylvania. Avonlea Lithium Corporation, a subsidiary of Vancouver-based Rain City Resources Inc., will provide its newly-tested technology to Kendra II, based in Springville, PA,…

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Big Turnover at EQT Board – Chairwoman, 3 Others Leaving (4 of 14)

Something of surprise (at least for us) is that four EQT Corporation board of directors members, including the board’s chairwoman, are “retiring” and leaving the board. That’s four out of 14 board members (28%, over one-fourth). Is it a bloodbath? Widespread unrest? House cleaning? No, we don’t suspect any of those things. It may be…

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Feb. STEO Revises Predicted 2025 Natural Gas Price Avg Up by 23%

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) issued its latest monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook on Tuesday, the agency’s monthly best guess about where energy prices and production will go in the next 12 months. In this latest assessment, EIA said the natural gas price at the U.S. benchmark Henry Hub is expected to average $3.80 per…

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PA Game Commission Shows How to Manage Gas Royalty Ups & Downs

The Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) owns and manages more than 1.5 million acres of state game lands throughout the Commonwealth. The primary purpose of these lands is the management of habitat for wildlife and providing opportunities for lawful hunting and trapping. You might think PGC gets most of its revenue from hunting and trapping licenses…

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FERC Approves PJM Plan to Fast-Track New Gas-Fired Power Plants

In December, MDN told you the country’s largest electric grid, PJM Interconnection, which covers all or parts of 13 states, including PA, OH, and WV, proposed new changes to how it decides which new power plants can connect to the system first. The new policy *favors* adding natural gas-fired power over other types of power…

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Will This be the “Decade of Geothermal Energy” Under Trump 2.0?

Geothermal energy has been called the ‘redheaded stepchild’ of renewable energy. Lefties have a love/hate relationship with geothermal energy. Geothermal uses the same identical drilling rigs, drills the same holes in the ground, and even uses the same fracking technology used to drill shale oil and gas wells. But drilling and fracking for geothermal is…

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Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Feb 13, 2025

OTHER U.S. REGIONS: CA Republicans urge Trump admin to fight state’s attack on natural gas; NATIONAL: How Donald Trump has turned the Green Movement on its head; Tariffs or no tariffs, the world wants and needs America’s natural gas; Automakers look to pass gambling debts on to taxpayers; INTERNATIONAL: WTI dips below $72 as US-Russia…

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