The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission illegally kept natural gas pipeline opponents from seeking judicial review, according to Kallanish Energy. The decision will affect natural gas pipeline and LNG projects across the United States as it was seen as a major victory for pipeline opponents
Read More...Plastimagen, Mexico’s largest plastics show, is postponing from November to mid-January because of the coronavirus pandemic, organizers announced July 2. “In ongoing dialogues with many key national and international industry participants, our decision is based on the commitment to collaborate with the sector to ensure we host a safe event,” Jose Navarro, general director of
Read More...The final twist in 2020’s anti-fracking campaign came on Wednesday after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that signatures for ballot measures couldn’t be collected online, dealing a fatal blow to a prominent “Keep It In The Ground” group’s effort to effectively ban responsible energy development in the state. At the beginning of the year, activist
Read More...The Marcellus Shale Coalition defended Pennsylvania’s drilling industry and state agencies and criticized a June 25 grand jury report released by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, according to Kallanish Energy. David Spigelmyer, president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, outlined the pro-drilling group’s stance in a seven-page letter to state legislators. The letter addresses the grand jury report
Read More...Last night, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper scored a big victory in the Democratic primary in his campaign for the U.S. Senate over former State House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, a supporter of the Green New Deal. The question now becomes which version of Hickenlooper will emerge in the general election as he faces incumbent Republican
Read More...After two years of investigating, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has reported the findings of a grand jury looking into whether shale gas producers had violated environmental protection laws. Gov. Tom Wolf’s Department of Environmental Protection, which oversees regulation of the industry, isn’t mincing words: “The report is legally erroneous, which compromises its conclusions.”* DEP
Read More...Ineos Group has bought the petrochemicals business of British Petroleum plc in a $5 billion deal. Assets acquired by London-based Ineos in the transaction include a market-leading business making PET feedstocks paraxylene and purified terephthalic acid. “We are delighted to acquire these top-class businesses from BP, extending the Ineos position in global petrochemicals and providing
Read More...S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. is flexing its sustainability credentials with a new bottle made from recycled ocean-bound plastic for its European and Latin American Mr. Muscle brand. The consumer brand giant based in Racine, Wis., announced the project June 30 as part of an initiative to help combat ocean plastic pollution. The new line
Read More...Alaskan officials on June 29 approved BP Plc’s sale of its oil and gas leases in the state to closely held Hilcorp Energy Co. as part of a previously announced $5.6 billion deal. BP last year agreed to sell its Alaskan properties, including interests in the Prudhoe Bay oil field and its nearly 50% stake
Read More...The media spin machine and anti-fossil fuelers are in overdrive, but they can’t paper over this fact: Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court expressed a very loud and clear interest in hearing the PennEast Pipeline vs. New Jersey case–and that spells bad news for NJ and its radical Attorney General who is trying to block the
Read More...Former Chester County, PA District Attorney Tom Hogan (RINO), and his successor Deb Ryan (Democrat) are 100% humiliated after a Chester County Magisterial District Judge dismissed the entire case against the local head of security for Energy Transfer in what the DA’s office lyingly calls a “buy a badge scheme.” Judge John Bailey dismissed all
Read More...We’ll try not to sound arrogant, but once again *only* MDN nailed it–which is why you subscribe, right? Yesterday we brought you the news that Chesapeake Energy has finally filed for bankruptcy (see Chesapeake Files for Bankruptcy – Debtors to Take Ownership). In our opening paragraph, we told pipeline companies according to the language we
Read More...On Sunday Chesapeake Energy filed for bankruptcy (see Chesapeake Files for Bankruptcy – Debtors to Take Ownership). Yesterday the New York Stock Exchange, on which Chesapeake shares (CHK) trade, halted trading and immediately began proceedings to delist the stock.This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Nuverra Environmental Solutions (formerly Heckmann) is one of the largest companies in the United States that handles transportation and disposal of shale drilling wastewater and leftover rock and dirt from drilling. The company has major operations in the Marcellus/Utica region. In April the company laid off roughly 100 employees (see Nuverra Environmental Cuts Budget 30%,
Read More...A new startup used the versatility of plastics to bring an eye-dropping change to the medical industry, with the first parts ready to deliver to customers this summer. In 2017, Allisa Song, a current medical student at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, read a ProPublica investigative story detailing how drug companies make eyedrops too large
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