Last August we told you about the politically-motivated prosecution (by the Chester County, PA District Attorney’s office) of men connected to a security firm providing off-duty constables to protect Mariner East 2 (ME2) pipeline construction sites (see Chester DA Persecution of Off-Duty Constables Guarding ME2 Pipe). Last June a Chester County Magisterial District Judge dismissed
Read More...Pennsylvania’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) has just thrown up a huge roadblock to Democrat/autocrat PA Gov. Tom Wolf’s attempt to railroad through a proposal to force PA to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a $2.6 billion carbon tax aimed at killing coal and gas-fired power plants. The IRRC told the rule-adopting Environmental
Read More...WV mountains Equitrans Midstream’s Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), which stretches 303 miles from Wetzel County, WV to Pittsylvania County, VA, is backed into a corner by anti-fossil fuelers. The project is 92% complete and in the ground, yet somehow antis have successfully blocked an Army Corps of Engineers Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP12) that allows the
Read More...click for larger version Penn State researchers have and continue to do important research around the benefits AND risks of Marcellus Shale drilling. Recently Penn State researchers published a study in Energy Policy, an Elsevier scientific journal, reviewing the presence of fine particulars (called PM 2.5) in proximity to well pad drilling sites in the
Read More...The Enverus U.S. rig count numbers continued to climb over the past week, even during the extreme cold snap and winter weather that shut down wide swaths of the economy in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. The rig count grew by four to 461 for the week ending Feb. 17. The Permian, which has added the
Read More...MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Tier 1 Rental and Distribution files bankruptcy; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Cold snap causes force majeure at Cameron LNG; Democratic state lawmakers propose fracking ban in California; Sustained arctic weather exposes weaknesses in Texas’s power industry; Texans deserve better than the epic power generation failure they have endured this week; NATIONAL: Annual U.S. liquefied
Read More...[Editor’s note: Opinions expressed by the author are their own.] Texas seems to have begun a return to normalcy after the coldest weather in a century left millions without power and water for days in sub-freezing temperatures. In Houston, most customers have had their power restored and municipal water pressure is rising. As expected, however,
Read More...So, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Texas has powered down in the worst way possible, by increasing dependency on unreliable wind energy as Biden pushes more of the same.] Texas is being hit with record temperatures and escalating energy prices as cold weather has caused over 4 million customers to be without power and
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: The New York Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act a/k/a CLCPA is going to make the Empire State go Texas with energy crises. Pay attention New Yorkers!] As I watched the Texas energy debacle unfold the last several days, I thought that I
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Pennsylvania State Rep. Jim Struzzi is demanding Tom Wolf drop his petulant RGGI initiative now that the IRRC has recommended a delay. Pennsylvania’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) has said “whoa” as to implementing Tom Wolf’s RGGI plans for a new carbon tax on all Pennsylvanians. State Representative
Read More...The shift to natural gas over the past decade has helped make the United States the global leader in emissions reductions, and U.S. LNG exports are key for developing nations seeking to transition from higher-emitting fuels to lower their own emissions and pollution mortality rate. It’s a clear reminder of the benefits of cleaner-burning natural
Read More...Under the executive order signed by President Joe Biden in January, a planned lease sale of approximately 78.2 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico has been postponed – a move that will have significant negative impacts on the economies and employment of states in the Gulf Coast region and puts environmental efforts across the
Read More...The fracking boom that forever changed the Appalachian Basin positively impacted the U.S. economy, but may have missed the mark for the local communities in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia where the natural gas was extracted, according to a recent report conducted by the Ohio River Valley Institute. The report studied the economic impact fracking
Read More...Yesterday the country’s largest natural gas producer, EQT Corporation, released its 4Q and full-year 2020 update, holding a conference call with analysts to discuss the results. The update shows the company produced an average of 4.45 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of natural gas in 4Q. Although there was plenty of “free cash flow”
Read More...Pipeline giant Energy Transfer made quite a splash yesterday during its 4Q and full-year 2020 update by announcing the company has cut a deal to buy Enable Midstream for $7.2 billion. That deal, while important, has nothing to do with the M-U region. We were interested in talk about the company’s Mariner East (ME) pipeline
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