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
Read More...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
Read More...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
Read More...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
Read More...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
Read More...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
Read More...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
Read More...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
Read More...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
Read More...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
Read More...Here’s a snapshot of energy deals from the past week including the $1 billion all-cash acquisition of Roan Resources and Contango’s takeover of White Star Petroleum. HartEnergy.com Wed, 10/09/2019 – 11:00 AM This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Read More...Upstream companies can save as much as $100 billion through automation and digitalization initiatives in the 2020s, according to a new report by Rystad Energy. The report says service companies are reinventing themselves to help operators unlock the savings. In 2018, more than 3,000 companies in the upstream space spent $1 trillion on operational expenditures,
Read More...Woodland Midstream II LLC has acquired the James Lake System from a privately-owned seller for an undisclosed amount. James Lake represents a fully integrated sour gas gathering, treating and processing system with about 230 miles of pipeline, 110 million cubic feet per day of processing capacity and 35,000 horsepower of owned compression that serves producers
Read More...West Rockhill Twp, Bucks County West Rockhill Township in Bucks County, PA (near Philadelphia) has waged a legal battle to prevent a natural gas compressor station from being built as part of the Adelphia Gateway project, a plan to convert an old oil pipeline stretching from Northampton County, PA through Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester counties,
Read More...Donald M. “Blue” Jenkins Beauty (and truth) is in the eye of the beholder. During the proxy fight earlier this year to control EQT’s board–and ultimately its management team–Toby Rice threw some sharp barbs including talk that EQT’s existing management was not up to the task of effectively running the company. The Rice boys said
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