The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection recently reached a settlement with CNX Gas Company, issuing a Consent Order and Agreement for well plugging violations in four southwestern Pennsylvania counties, according to Farm and Dairy. The agreement requires CNX to post a $1.48 million performance bond and provides an extended schedule for the company to plug
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … When the Guardian published a screed advancing a childhood cancer scare we weren’t told the full story about the Department of Health’s findings. Yesterday, I wrote about the Guardian‘s scandalous attempt to label Washington County as a “cancer alley.” I say scandalous because it was all husk and no
Read More...Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … The Mariner East pipeline is still being attacked by Southeast PA legislators determined to undermine this important project for the sake of political gain. A small group of mostly southeastern Pennsylvania pipeline opponents came to Harrisburg today to urge Gov. Tom Wolf to halt construction of the legally
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) ExxonMobil is looking to do a cracker in Western Pennsylvania or environs and it could be in the same vicinity as Shell’s. Pennsylvania is still rising! Leave it to ace reporter Paul Gough from the Pittsburgh Business Times to unearth some earth-shattering news–that ExxonMobil is actively looking at locations in Beaver
Read More...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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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
Read More...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
Read More...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.
Read More...Our pick of the downstream industry news you need to know. × US skips raising tariffs on Chinese goods in October The U.S. and China have reached a partial trade pause, but there are still plenty of details to work out. Officials believe it will take up to five weeks to finalize the deal. As
Read More...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
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