Our local community outdoor pool closes this week, so I suppose that really means that summer is about over. And so is iced coffee season. Just kidding. It’s always coffee season, but summer is when cold brew really seems to hit the spot. Which I mention because it’s time to update my personal straw use
Read More...Chicago — Simple messaging can help the polymer industry explain the importance of its products to consumers and turn the tide against growing anti-plastics consumer sentiment. That’s what Jonathan Quinn, market development manager for Nova Chemicals Inc., sure thinks. “You have to be simple. You don’t have to get too complex,” Quinn said following a
Read More...Flexible packaging maker Polykar Inc. is building a new manufacturing site in Western Canada to help better support customers in that region. The Saint-Laurent, Quebec-based converter has selected a 3-acre location in a business park in Edmonton, Alberta, adjacent to the city’s airport that will have a 30-million-pound-per-year capacity. The new facility will serve the
Read More...The Pittsburgh Business Times‘ ace report Paul Gough is reporting an exclusive: EQT is getting ready to fire (i.e. layoff) around 200 employees. “Multiple sources” have confirmed the plans to the PBT. Since the company employs around 800 employees, that represents 25% of the entire workforce. This comes on the heels of the company laying
Read More...This Friday Thursday the justices sitting on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear what we believe is the most important shale gas court case in the history of the state: Briggs v Southwestern Energy. We consider this case to be an existential threat to the future of shale gas drilling in PA should the decision
Read More...According to analysis by S&P Global Platts, new drilling permits for shale wells across Pennsylvania have “plummeted” over the past few months–down 14% in July and down 23% in August from the same months a year ago. But, does comparing two months from this year against last year for the entire state really tell the
Read More...Like it or not, landowners are joined at the hip with the shale drillers who produce the natural gas from their land. When “the price” (which is actually a lot of different prices, depending on geography) of natural gas is high, everyone is in tall cotton. But when the price tanks, as it has over
Read More...PA State Senator Andy Dinniman In April 2018, a Chester County, PA (Philadelphia area) Democrat State Senator by the name of Andy Dinniman (who we think looks like Tony Soprano) filed a formal, legal complaint with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), asking the PUC to shut down and keep closed all of the Mariner
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … GasSearch Drilling Services (GDS) is employing Susquehanna County residents to support the gas drilling that has been economically sustaining the county. GasSearch Drilling Services (GDS) operations manager Chad Gorman has seen substantial growth in the Marcellus shale region of northern Pennsylvania and especially in Susquehanna County, where he
Read More...Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Andy Dinniman is a big fellow and, appropriately enough, he has failed bigly in Commonwealth Court as a panel of judges has ruled he never even had standing. Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court today reversed a June 2018 order by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission that resulted from a taxpayer-funded
Read More...Natural gas-fired power generation is expected to increase in Pennsylvania over the next few years, according to the state Public Utility Commission’s (PUC’s) Electric Power Outlook for Pennsylvania 2018-2023 report released in August. The PUC’s report expects gas-fired power generation will account for as much as 45% of the state’s installed capacity by the end
Read More...As “Keep It in the Ground” activists push for Democratic presidential hopefuls to take more extreme positions on oil and natural gas, candidates are promising to ban fracking or halt leasing on federal lands. Some have even gone a step further to say that if elected they will ban the practice all together – a
Read More...Newly published emails reveal that a Special Assistant Attorney General (SAAG) in the Maryland Attorney General’s office sought direction from a Bloomberg-backed group rather than the Maryland AG. This email exchange directly contradicts claims that these SAAGs, which are being placed in state AG offices around the country by the State Energy and Environmental Impact
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Green corporatism is always in the background when it comes to fractivism and global warming hysteria, as government rent seekers try to mold a crisis mood. Global warming hysteria seems to get worse by the moment. Fractivism is, in many respects, a sub-set of the disease. It’s a refusal
Read More...Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … Pennsylvania is now in the midst of a thrilling second decade of an energy revolution never imagined possible a dozen years ago and it has raised us all up. Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, Energy Transfer and the Greater Susquehanna Valley Chamber of Commerce hosted a Think
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