NAI Ohio River Corridor Restructuring for Growth in Eastern Ohio and West Virginia

Ohio River Corridor

NAI Ohio River Corridor Restructuring for Growth in Eastern Ohio and West Virginia

NAI Ohio River Corridor has expanded their team and commercial real estate services with the addition of Renay Sanders, commercial specialist and the promotion of Laurie Stanbro to vice president of Brokerage Operations. “Since locating our office to Tuscarawas County and our continued focus on the emerging petrochemical and plastics industries, we realized the need

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NY Post Editorial Explodes Cuomo Renewables Delusion

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … NY Post readers were treated to the one of the best editorials it has yet to write on the subject of energy. It demolishes Cuomo’s renewables delusion. The NY Post has neatly summarized the immense problems with Andrew Cuomo’s renewables delusion. Indeed, I have to wonder if some

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Surviving The New Oil Price Reality

[Editor’s note: A version of this story appears in the June 2019 edition of E&P magazine. Subscribe to the magazine here.] There’s been no shortage of opinions and prognostications offered over the past five years on the impact of the price downturn on the oil and gas industry. But at the heart of every opinion is a kernel

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DEC Forced Into Corner on Power Plant Permits by Cuomo Games

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) DEC, which Andrew Cuomo controls in its entirety, is under court order to process the already operating CPV Valley Energy Center’s air quality permits. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to stop a fully built, brand new natural gas-fired electric generating plant in Orange County from going operational last

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Saudi King Says Attacks By Iran-Backed Groups Threaten Global Oil

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman said on Saturday that attacks on Saudi oil assets last month by Iran-backed groups are a threat to global oil supplies and regional security. “The drone attacks on Saudi oil pumping stations carried out by groups supported by Iran not only threaten the security of the kingdom and the Gulf, but

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Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 1, 2019

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. New York Is the Biggest Loser As Wealth Leaves the Empire State Andrew Cuomo, New York’s follower in

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H.B. 827 Draws Phony Attack from Delaware Riverkeeper Stooge?

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  H.B. 827, Rep Jonathan Fritz’s bill to compensate DRBC landowners for their huge losses from the taking that would result from a fracking ban, is attacked. Former English teacher and now Rep. Wendy Ullman is from Bucks County, Pennsylvania where the average household income in 2017 was $108,848 compared

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Australian firm gets oxo-biodegradable trademark

A small Australian company has received approval for the nation’s first certified trademark for oxo-biodegradable plastic products. Alex Andrews established Melbourne-based OxoPak Pty. Ltd. to certify oxo-biodegradable plastic products. “There’s a lot of misleading information out there,” he said. Andrews first lodged applications for four certified trademarks for OBP products in 2017. But the Canberra-based,

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Pricing, construction challenges for PVC

Cleveland — Raw material price increases and an up and down construction market are among the challenges facing PVC compounders in 2019. Executives with three major PVC compounding firms tackled those topics and more at the Compounding World expo May 9 in Cleveland. The panel was moderated by senior project consultant Sylvia Tabero of host

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Sellers need to look at all options

Schaumburg, Ill. — The plastics M&A market remains strong, even as top-performing firms are distancing themselves from the pack. “There’s a gulf occurring between the haves and the have nots, the large caps vs. small caps,” market veteran Thomas Blaige said May 21 at the Plastics News Financial Summit in Schaumburg. “Deal volume is way

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