Four permits for drilling in the Utica-Point Pleasant shale were issued to Ascent Resources Utica by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources in the week ended Sept. 14, according to The Youngstown Business Journal. Ascent Resources received two permits for drilling in Belmont County and two for Harrison County. The final permit issued in the
Read More...Chicago — Plastics are in a state of emergency, Penny Walter says. As senior category manager for strategic procurement sourcing — closures in North America for Coca-Cola Co., Walter sees the situation facing the industry up close and personal. “We are under attack as the plastics industry for single-use bottles, for beverage containers. There’s a
Read More...Composite products manufacturer Plascore Inc. is expanding its U.S. headquarters site in Zeeland, Mich., with a $6 million, 80,000-square-foot facility that will create 35 jobs. Founded in 1977, the company produces composite panels and honeycomb cores for the aerospace, building products, ground transportation, marine, military and recreation industries. The panels and cores increase structural strength
Read More...Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently said, if elected, she would call for an immediate nationwide ban on hydraulic fracturing. Other candidates have hinted at similar positions. According to Michael Cemblest of JP Morgan Asset Management, who says it doesn’t matter, it’s what it may mean that is important. “The United States has undergone an
Read More...DENVER—Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc. Sept. 18 announced that its board of directors has appointed Audrey Robertson to serve as an independent member of the company’s board. Ms. Robertson will serve as a member of the audit committee. The appointment is effective immediately and now brings the number of outside independent directors to six of
Read More...Susquehanna River Basin The Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) established the Remote Water Quality Monitoring Network (RWQMN) in January 2010 in response to natural gas drilling activities in the basin. Each year the SRBC issues an update/report on findings from the previous year. The report for 2018 was just released and it found, as all
Read More...Dems & RINOs want to strangle shale with methane rules A group of mostly Democrats, with three RINOs (Republican in Name Only) thrown in to earn the laughable label of “bipartisan,” gathered in Harrisburg, PA at the Capitol earlier this week to turn up the pressure on PA’s liberal Gov. Wolf on the issue of
Read More...Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Investment Program (or PIPE) grants cover part of the cost of building new natgas pipelines to connect homes and businesses in rural parts of the state to homegrown Marcellus Shale gas supplies. We’ve written about many of the more-than-a-dozen (so far) PIPE grant projects in the past (see our PIPE stories here). Another
Read More...In 2012, Pennsylvania State Senator Andy Dinniman, Democrat from Chester County, PA (near Philadelphia) voted against passage of the Act 13 law that created the impact “fee” (actually a tax) on Marcellus Shale drillers in the state. Yet earlier this week Dinniman issued a press release to tout $740,000 in new grants for “green” projects
Read More...The radical Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) published a “report” (i.e. propaganda) in 2017 that made the preposterous claim that New England customers have overpaid utility bills by $3.6 billion due to collusion between the natural gas and electricity industries (see EDF Accuses New England Gas Utilities of $3.6B Market Manipulation). That false report led to
Read More...The attack on Saudi oil processing facilities drove NGL prices sharply higher on Sept. 16 and, though they retreated some on positive news the following day, still recorded week-on-week increases across the board at Mont Belvieu, Texas. Ethane’s price continued to rise at Mont Belvieu to its highest level in almost six months, while the
Read More...An activist group is recycling its faulty claims and scare tactics around chemicals used in natural gas development as it shifts its anti-fracking efforts from Pennsylvania to Ohio. This year’s attempt by the Partnership for Policy Integrity (PPI) to resurrect debunked talking points about fracking fluid chemical exposure – which follows its similar report last
Read More...Continued revenue boosts from New Mexico’s growing oil and natural gas sector will allow students to earn four-year college degrees for free under a plan announced this week by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The “New Mexico Opportunity Scholarship” will apply to all 29 of the state’s colleges and universities and help more than 55,000 students
Read More...In a bid to reduce plastic packaging waste and remove unnecessary plastic from its secondary packaging, Coca-Cola European Partners will be replacing plastic shrink wrap with cardboard for its can multipacks across Western Europe. The move will see the removal of approximately 4,000 metric tons of single-use plastic per year across the region, the company announced Sept.
Read More...The Italian plastics and rubber machinery sector has registered declines in both exports and imports, according to the half-year figures released by the Italian statistics institute ISTAT. Machinery imports for the first six months of the year fell 17 percent year-over-year while exports slowed by about 5 percent, said the Italian plastics and rubber machinery
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