Ohio’s major newspapers continue to push back against phony commercials being run by FirstEnergy in a desperate attempt to block a referendum to overturn House Bill (HB) 6 (see FirstEnergy Runs Attack Ad, Claims China Controls OH NatGas Plants). HB 6, a corporate welfare bill, was recently passed to prop up two FirstEnergy bankrupt nuclear
Read More...Yesterday the Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) released its West Virginia Emissions Brief (full copy below) which shows significant emissions reductions and environmental improvements made across the state. This brief further demonstrates that states can reap the rewards of energy production while practicing sound environmental stewardship simultaneously. Although West Virginia is now the seventh-largest natural gas
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Lackawanna College is creating sky-high opportunity in the shale region by training professionals for the industry and it has responded through a clay shoot. Students and administrators from the Lackawanna College School of Petroleum & Natural Gas completed their second full round as coordinators and managers of the
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW Ruby Montoya and Jessica Reznicek have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for Dakota Access Pipeline vandalism. It’s about time the Fed gloves came off. Two years ago I wrote about these two Dakota Access Pipeline vandals, noting they were stooges for a radical group known as Rising
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Welding is a special talent that can and is being taught at the Susquehanna County Career and Technology Center. Students there are welding together futures. Ray Ingaglio, the chief welding instructor at Susquehanna County Career and Technology Center (SCCTC), had left teaching and started his own welding business.
Read More...Robert P. MurphySenior Economist, Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, Consulting by RPM … … Capitalism, and revulsion to it, is at the heart of the opposition to oil and gas development by today’s global warmists and fractivists. They’re wrong. Presumably bolstered by the fiery claims of Greta Thunberg and the general theme of Climate Week, people
Read More...NextEra Energy Partners has agreed to buy Meade Pipeline Co. in a deal valued at about $1.37 billion, according to Bloomberg. Meade owns a 39.2% interest in the Central Penn Line, a 185-mile pipeline that connects the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania to the mid-Atlantic and southeastern U.S. The line has the capacity to deliver 1.7
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW Global warmists have completely lost it. Their “chickens with heads cut off” routine forecloses any debate about emissions issues and, therefore, progress. The invaluable Marcellus Drilling News (do yourself a favor and subscribe now) carried an absolutely illuminating story yesterday about a puny protest that occurred this past Friday
Read More...Over the last decade, West Virginia has become the seventh-largest natural gas producer in the United States, according to Rigzone. Natural gas production in West Virginia has reached a record every year for the last 10 years, reaching 1.8 Tcf in 2018. The state now accounts for 5-6% of total U.S. output, with a foothold
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NAI Ohio River Corridor expands with addition of James Elsfelder, Industrial Specialist BOLIVAR, Ohio James (Jim) Elsfelder has joined the NAI Ohio River Corridor commercial real estate team in the role of Industrial Specialist. Jim brings with him considerable experience working for industrial and electrical services companies throughout the Midwestern United States. “Elsfelder will
Read More...During the second quarter of 2019, natural gas and oil production from Ohio’s horizontal wells saw increases, according to data released by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Horizontal natural gas wells produced over 614 billion cubic feet from the beginning of March through the end of June — an increase of .78% from the first
Read More...Royalties paid to landowners from natural gas extraction in Pennsylvania total roughly $9.82 billion from 2010 through 2018, according to calculations by the state Independent Fiscal Office (IFO), Kallanish Energy reports. Landowners in the primary eight counties where natural gas is produced accounted for $8.84 billion in royalty payments. Royalty payments made in the remaining natural-gas-producing counties
Read More...According to environmental activists, fracking was one of the worst things to happen to North Dakota, bringing not only environmental pollution, but also soaring crime rates. While the start of the shale revolution in 2008 certainly brought tens of thousands of new residents to work the Bakken shale fields in North Dakota, new analysis of
Read More...Activists shopping around climate litigation to municipalities in Florida have struck out again, despite years of lobbying, advertising, and publishing reports projecting the costs of climate mitigation to support their efforts. The Sun Sentinel reports that Key Biscayne, Fla. has decided not to pursue climate litigation, joining the ranks of Fort Lauderdale, who we learned
Read More...The petrochemical companies who have proposed building a billion-dollar ethane cracker plant on a 500-acre tract of land in Belmont County, Ohio, have finally reached a settlement agreement with environmental groups in regards to air pollution controls, according to Ohio Valley Resources. It wasn’t long after the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency issued an air permit
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