There’s no quick fix for the U.S. economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Cara Walton with consulting firm Harbour Results Inc. The impacts of early-year shutdowns and of slowed economic activity continue to be felt, Walton said during Plastics News’ 2020 Caps & Closures conference. Consumer sentiment remains down, in spite
Read More...Birmingham, Ala. — Homeland Vinyl Products Inc. will invest $2.2 million to add 38,000 square feet of production space and 55 employees for new fence, deck and rail extrusion and assembly capabilities in Surgoinsville, Tenn. The expansion follows a 2017 addition of 50,000 square feet at the facility. “We have had great success with our
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Congress is up to no good. The American Energy Innovation Act, paraded as bipartisan, is nothing but green virtue signaling and dangerous. The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution says the following: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it
Read More...Maybe this will tip the scale toward electric vehicles in the U.S., with California planning to eliminate the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state will act by having the California Air Resources Board develop regulations to mandate 100 percent of in-state sales of new cars and trucks to
Read More...The combination of COVID-19 and production outages have tightened supplies of polyethylene and polypropylene resins in 2020. Market analysts Mike Burns and Scott Newell of Resin Technology Inc. explored markets for those materials as parts of Plastics News’ Caps & Closures conference. “Plastics hit all points in the grocery chain,” said Burns, who covers PE
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Nick DeIuliis, the straight-talk CEO of CNX Resources and Shawn Steffee of Boilermakers Local 154 provide some great insight on energy politics! It’s impossible not to be impressed with Nick DeIuliis, the CEO of CNX Resources. He’s clearly not the typical corporate CEO, hiding behind a wall of
Read More...click for larger version Last week the spot price for natural gas being sold at the Dominion South trading hub in Allegheny County, PA crashed to its lowest point in more than a year, selling for $0.735 per Mcf (thousand cubic feet). According to the experts at RBN Energy, the Marcellus/Utica is heading into a
Read More...Last week Ohio finally broke the drought of not issuing permits for new shale wells in the Buckeye State. Finally! Last week Pennsylvania issued 13 new permits for wells on three well pads. Ohio issued 4 new permits for wells on two well pads. And West Virginia issued 1 new permit.This post appeared first on
Read More...On Sept. 10, a day after a meeting of the West Virginia Economic Development Authority meeting, we reported (based on media reports) that the Authority had voted to approve a $5.5 million loan guarantee for a proposed new shale gas-fired power plant planned for Brooke County, WV (see WV Approves Loan Guarantee for Brooke County
Read More...Williams’ Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline, a 200-mile greenfield pipeline from northeastern to southeastern PA where it joins the Transco Pipeline, went online in October 2018 (see FERC Approves Atlantic Sunrise for Startup! Pipe Opens Sat. Oct. 6). Shippers on Atlantic Sunrise include Cabot Oil & Gas, Seneca Resources, and Range Resources. Yesterday the Pennsylvania Dept. of
Read More...Yesterday the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued modified permits for the Mariner East 2 pipeline project in three southeast PA locations (Delaware and Chester counties). Each location has faced problems with underground horizontal directional drilling (HDD). The modifications allow a different type of installation method to be used–open trench.This post appeared first on
Read More...Shell cracker as of March 2020 Once again big money is being funneled to Big Green groups by secretive sources to finance a lawsuit attacking American infrastructure. The latest attack by Big Green, including a PA-based “environmental” group, seeks to overturn a recently-updated rule by the U.S. EPA governing air emissions from ethane cracker facilities.
Read More...MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Rep. Danielle “Karen” Otten caught trespassing in Mariner East fight; CNX Resources announces closing of $200 million senior notes offering; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: City bans natural gas in most new construction; NATIONAL: Video – Baseload Electricity; U.S. crude oil exports have fallen in each month since their record high in February; Lower natural
Read More...Another step towards PTTGC America Announcing FID connected Bryce Custer, Broker of NAI Ohio River Corridor Editor’s Note: Our last newsletter provided an article on both the Shell Polymer complex in Monaco, PA and the proposed PTTGC project in Belmont County, OH. This article was written in May and distributed in September due to COVID
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Snitz Creek is falsely reported by StateImpactPA as the site of pollution problems related to Mariner East but it’s all a matter of shilling. We don’t know if StateImpactPA “reporters” are just sloppy in their reporting, or if they intentionally lie. Either way, it doesn’t look good for StateImpactPA. PBS reporter
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