Shameful PA Lawmakers Rally to Shut Down Safely Operating ME Pipes

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Shameful PA Lawmakers Rally to Shut Down Safely Operating ME Pipes

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. China’s Chairman Mao – patron saint of antis Yesterday was a sad day in Harrisburg, PA. A group of virulent anti-fossil fuelers (maybe 200 or so) attended a staged rally where several

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FERC Issues Timeline to Decide on Mountain Valley Pipe Expansion

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. click for larger version Equitrans’ 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from West Virginia to southern Virginia is now 70% done (see Shocker: Mountain Valley Pipeline Now 70% Built, Online by 4Q19). Last

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MarkWest Energy’s “Extraordinary Results” in 2018

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. The company we call MarkWest Energy is technically MPLX, renamed after MarkWest was bought out and merged into Marathon Petroleum in December 2015 (see Golden Parachutes Pop Open for MarkWest Top Management/Board).

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Opinion: Women In Energy: Long Overdue

Honorees of the 2019 Oil and gas Investor 25 Influential Women in Energy on stage at the Hilton Americas in Houston. (Source: Hart Energy) Jeff Share has been reporting on the energy industry for over 25 years and among my biggest disappointments has been the dearth of women in upper management roles. When he wrote

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The Delaware River Basin Commission Eminent Domain Activity Act

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc.   Thanks to Rep. Jonathan Fritz, the PA House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is now also considering the DRBC Eminent Domain Activity Act. As we told our readers last month, Senator Lisa Baker’s DRBC takings bill, has been reintroduced as SB 305, the “Delaware River Basin Commission Eminent Domain

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New Hearing, Old Tricks: #ExxonKnew Takes Debunked Testimony to Parliament

This Thursday, the European Parliament’s (EP) Committee on Petitions and Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety will hold a joint hearing on “Climate Change Denial,” specifically focusing on ExxonMobil and the #ExxonKnew campaign. The hearing was scheduled as a result of a petition submitted to the EP by Food & Water Watch Europe, the

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Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub Aims To Be ‘Carbon Neutral’

In the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, the racing heart of the U.S. shale oil boom, there is generally not too much soul-searching about the implications for the climate of their production. The availability of truck drivers and pipeline capacity for transporting the oil to market are much more pressing concerns. Occidental Petroleum

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Crude oil prices mixed after hitting new 2019 highs

Crude oil prices were little changed Tuesday after hitting 2019 highs earlier in the day, maintaining strength on expectations Opec+ will continue its production cuts. U.S. oil prices have risen 9% in the last six weeks, as the Opec+ supply cuts are now expected to continue through the rest of 2019. Opec+ representatives this week

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U.S. grants Iraq new sanctions waiver to buy Iranian energy: source

The Trump administration is granting Iraq a renewed 90-day waiver, exempting it from U.S. sanctions on Iran, a State Department official told CNBC Tuesday. The waiver, last issued in December and expired Tuesday, will allow Iraq to continue buying electricity from its neighbor, Kallanish Energy reports. “While this waiver is intended to help Iraq mitigate

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Tallgrass Energy promotes Moler to president

Midstreamer Tallgrass Energy this week announced the promotion of chief operating officer Bill Moler to president, effective immediately. The Kansas-based company said David G. Dehaemers Jr. remains CEO and Moler will retain his current COO title, Kallanish Energy reports. “I’m delighted to announce Bill’s ascent to President, a move that recognizes his increasingly vital role

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Stark County judge dismisses lawsuit against Rover Pipeline

Last week, Stark County Common Pleas Judge Kristin G. Farmer dismissed the state’s lawsuit against Rover Pipeline over alleged water pollution, determining the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency waived its right to regulate pipeline construction under the Clean Water Act, according to the Canton Repository. The Ohio EPA had a year to act on the Rover’s

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What Natural Gas Brings to the Electric Generation Marketplace

Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … Natural gas is the big performer in electric generation as the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association demonstrates with a new video about the subject. Produced by The Pennsylvania Manufacturer’s Association (PMA), the newest PMA Perspective entitled “Electric Generation on the Competetive Marketplace”, features David Taylor as he travels to York County to

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Mariner East Helps Deliver $200 Million and 1,200 Jobs to Southeast PA

Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Pipeline development delivers economic develop as the Mariner East helps steer $200 million of investment and 1,200 jobs to Southeast Pennsylvania. Members of the Pennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance today joined legislators and business leaders from around the state to spotlight the safe, responsible development of the state’s pipeline

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People in plastics

March 19, 2019 Updated 3/19/2019 Email Print DAVIS-STANDARD LLC — The extrusion systems manufacturer in Pawcatuck, Conn., named Jay Totten regional account manager for its converting systems, extrusion and liquid coating and Rick Roth regional sales manager for its sheet and foam systems. EDGEWATER CAPITAL PARTNERS — The private equity firm in Independence, Ohio, named

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Walmart Foundation supporting sustainability study

March 19, 2019 Updated 3/19/2019 Email Print University of Georgia Jason Locklin, director of the New Materials Institute at the University of Georgia. A substantial grant will help the University of Georgia examine multilayer plastic biodegradation in an attempt to lessen packaging waste in the environment. The Walmart Foundation is giving $800,000 to the Materials

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