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PA DEP Makes Effort to Speed Up Approvals for Erosion Permits

Permitting in Pennsylvania, especially permits overseen by the Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP), has been a hot mess for years. A Chapter 102 Erosion and Sedimentation permit sometimes takes two, three, or even six to eight months for approval — instead of the law-mandated 14 days. It got so bad that in the fall of…

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Insider Reveals How PA DEP Became Unbalanced re Environment

According to Mark Caskey, CEO and founder of Steel Na­tion (and an MDN friend), Pennsylvania state environmental agencies aren’t listening to the people who produce the energy. And he should know since he had a front-row seat watching the decline. Mark is frus­trated by how pow­er­ful the PA Dept. of En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion (DEP) has be­come…

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Radicals Pressure NY Gov. Hochul to Block Iroquois Pipe Expansion

As we told you earlier this month, the radicals who run the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) are gearing up to block the Iroquois Gas Transmission system from completing its Enhancement by Compression (ExC) project (see NY DEC Attempting to Use Draft Reg to Block Iroquois Compressor). The ExC project increases horsepower at…

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Encino Energy Spent $2M to Help 145 Ohio Nonprofits Past 5 Years

Encino Energy published its annual Community Progress Report for 2023 yesterday. The report provides insight into the company’s achievements through its Community Partnership Program and highlights its investments in the communities in which it operates. In five years of active operations in Ohio, Encino has donated more than $2 million to 145 community groups and…

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Crude Oil is Trading at a 12-Year High Against Natural Gas

When drilling for oil (or for natural gas), quite often, the hydrocarbon you’re not drilling for comes out of the ground along with the hydrocarbon you are drilling for. Natural gas coming out of the ground along with oil (in an oil play) is called “associated gas.” And in the Marcellus/Utica, other hydrocarbons (aside from…

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*UPDATE* Senate Budget Committee Restarts Oil Industry Probe: Stay Tuned for More “Political Theater”

UPDATE (4/30/24): Today, Joint staff from the Senate Budget Committee and the House Oversight Committee released their long-awaited report concluding a “nearly three year-long” investigation into oil companies. Spoiler alert: as E&E News put it the first time around, the investigation continues to show that “oil and gas companies, for the most part, want to

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C-NLOPB Issues Call for Bids in Eastern Newfoundland

Winners of the Call for Bids No. NL24-CFB01 will be selected based on the highest total of money the bidder commits to spend on exploration of a parcel during the first six years of a nine-year license. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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