Fake Fractivist News: The Bane of Progress and Sustainability

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Fake Fractivist News: The Bane of Progress and Sustainability

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  The Guardian has published a piece of fake fractivist news intended to undermine the tremendous benefits the Shell cracker is bringing to Pennsylvania. The Guardian, a UK journal that has fallen on hard times and now depends on donations to survive, has published an article in its US edition

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O&G becoming greater economic factor in NEO

Oct 15, 2019 | By Rick Stouffer, Editor, Kallanish Energy NORTH CANTON, Ohio – Drilling in Ohio’s portion of the Utica Shale Play is celebrating a decade of tapping the play’s hidden fossil fuels. And, while the benefits associated with the play, including created jobs, collected taxes and, for many inhabitants in eastern Ohio, a

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Enterprise to expand ATEX pipeline

On Monday Enterprise Products Partners announced plans to proceed with a 31% capacity expansion of its Appalachia-to-Texas (ATEX) ethane pipeline, according to Kallanish Energy. The decision to move forward was determined by customer commitments received during a 30-day biding period that ended Sept. 25. The 1,200-mile ATEX line transports ethane from the Marcellus/Utica Shale plays in

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US LNG exports rise on capacity expansions

As capacity and demand grow, the U.S. has moved up the ranks to become the third-largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in year-to-date exports starting in January 2019, according to ICIS. × The US was the fourth largest exporter of LNG in 2018, but it is now just behind Qatar and Australia, and U.S.

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Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Invests $2.5 Billion for Token CO2 Dip

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … Roger Caiazza says the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has invested over $2.5 billion of our money, paid in electric rates, for miniscule CO2 reductions. In October 2019 the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) released their annual Investments of Proceeds update.  This post compares the claims about the

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If Windmills Are Clean and Green, Why Are They Blowing Up A Storm?

Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. ….   Andrew Cuomo’s push for more windmills Upstate is blowing up a storm of controversy as locals say they don’t want them and are fighting back, town by town. Politics don’t start with the President and work their way down to us. No, real politics

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New Jersey denies permits for PennEast Pipeline

Last week, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection denied permits necessary for the proposed $1.1 billion, 102-mile PennEast Pipeline project to move forward, according to Kallanish Energy. The DEP’s decision was directly impacted by last month’s ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said PennEast couldn’t use eminent domain to acquire

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Shell cracker plant nearing completion?

Workers have finished erecting major parts of the plant, but some 6,000 electricians, pipefitters and welders are still working to connect the pieces and finish the project, according to Michael Marr, business integration lead for Shell Appalachia. Marr recently addressed attendees at Utica Summit VII on Thursday, providing an update on Shell’s petrochemical plant being

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Drillers pay Ohio counties $141.9M in taxes

Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Belmont, Guernsey, Jefferson, Monroe and Noble counties in Ohio received $141.9 million in real estate property taxes from drilling from 2010-2017, according to the report released Wednesday by the Ohio Oil and Gas Association and Energy in Depth. Kallanish Energy Reported the top three counties benefiting from tax collections during the same period

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NAI Ohio River Corridor to Sponsor Shale Directories Inaugural Appalachian Basin Real Estate Conference

Penn Valley, PA (October 8, 2019) – Shale Directories, the leading conference producer within the Appalachian Basin, and NAI Ohio River Corridor announce The Inaugural Appalachian Basin Real Estate Conference which will be held on December 11th and 12th at Oglebay Resort in Wheeling, West Virginia.   “With completion of the Shell Polymer complex in

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PPC buys Texas flexible packaging maker Popular Ink

PPC Flexible Packaging LLC is expanding, again, with a deal for a Texas-based company. Buffalo Grove, Ill.-based PPC acquired Popular Ink LLC, a McKinney, Texas, printer and converter of flexible films, bags and pouches. This is PPC’s fifth acquisition since 2017. “PPC’s combination with Popular brings our enterprise deep experience in high growth markets and

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Polykar adds film line in $2.2M project

Flexible packaging maker Polykar Inc. is adding a new blown film line that will expand production by 7 million pounds. The Windmöeller & Höelscher Optimex line is the third such machine at the company’s facility in Saint-Laurent, Quebec. The C$3 million (US$2.2 million) project brings annual production of multilayered film to 22 million pounds. The

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Nobel Prize for Chemistry shared by Asahi Kasei’s Yoshino

Asahi Kasei Corp. Honorary Fellow Akira Yoshino has been chosen for the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of his achievements in the research and development of the lithium-ion battery. He will share the prize, worth around 1.16 million euros ($1.27 million), equally with John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin and

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Canada and the work toward a greener legal marijuana industry

New statistics show that Canadians like their weed and like to recycle. OK. New statistics actually do not definitively show how much Canadians like their weed and like to recycle. That was just fun to write. But new statistics show that Canadians have recycled more than 1 million pieces of plastic cannabis packaging during the

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