Tanager-1 The so-called Carbon Mapper Coalition’s Tanager-1 satellite is off to a good start in selectively choosing fugitive methane and carbon dioxide “plumes” that it measures and maps (looking for needles instead of haystacks). The very first major fugitive methane transgressor picked up by the satellite was…(wait for it)…a landfill in Pakistan! The second plume…
Read More...Dominion Energy wants to build a liquified natural gas (LNG) storage facility in Person County, North Carolina, to enhance natural gas service reliability for residential and business customers in the growing region (see NC Residents Freak Out Over Proposed Dominion LNG Storage Tank). Dominion studied several potential sites and collected a boatload of data during…
Read More...The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) has extended three temporary air permits for the Shell ethane cracker plant in Monaca, PA, which would have expired at the end of April. The extended permits will suffice until Shell files for and receives what is called a federal Title V Operating Permit for air emissions from…
Read More...Although Shell maintains flaring and accidental emissions from its new multi-billion-dollar ethane cracker in Beaver County, PA, have not violated state and federal air standards, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) says they have — on numerous occasions. Shell didn’t argue the point, and last May, the company agreed to pay nearly $10 million…
Read More...New York Virtue Signaling on Climate Gets Bad Reviews Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: NRGGI has predictably descended into a morass of politically correct, woke policy making that can only undermine a mission already compromised by energy reality.] The Regional Greenhouse
Read More...New York Virtue Signaling on Climate Gets Bad Reviews Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York State, like California, has committed itself to a future energy crisis by big commitments to wind and solar that make no sense, and many are
Read More...Air monitors at Shell’s ethane cracker plant detected elevated levels of benzene (which can cause cancer in humans) following an… Continue reading The post Air Monitors Detect Benzene at Fenceline of Shell Cracker in Monaca first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...The mighty Shell ethane cracker has had “issues” getting and staying fully up to speed. Since it officially went online… Continue reading The post Shell Claims PA Cracker Plant Did Not Exceed Air Emissions Limits first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Yesterday the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) and its Environmental Quality Board (EQB) rammed through (in a rush) a… Continue reading The post PA EQB Rams Through VOC Reg to Control Conventional Well Emissions first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Environmental Quality Board (EQB) figures a quarter of a loaf of bread is… Continue reading The post PA EQB Adopts Tweaked Version of Onerous VOC/Methane Regulations first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Ethanol Mandates Resulting in Crazy Unintended Consequences Gregory Wrightstone Geologist and author of “Inconvenient Facts” .. … [Editor’s Note: Ethanol mandates are among the dumbest things trendy governments have ever done and the chickens of unintended consequences are now coming home to roost.] Expanded use of ethanol — enabled by President Biden’s lifting a
Read More...Alexander StevensPolicy AnalystInstitute for Energy Research …. … … [Editor’s Note: Earth Day should be a celebration of progress, innovation, markets and growth, not a whiny attack on all of it, as too many would have it.] Despite repeated pronouncements and predictions of doom and gloom by environmentalists, there are a lot of reasons to
Read More...click for larger version Penn State researchers have and continue to do important research around the benefits AND risks of Marcellus Shale drilling. Recently Penn State researchers published a study in Energy Policy, an Elsevier scientific journal, reviewing the presence of fine particulars (called PM 2.5) in proximity to well pad drilling sites in the
Read More...A group of anti-fossil nutters who devoted themselves to blocking Marcellus/Utica drilling around the Ambridge Reservoir have turned their attention to the Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County. They wanted to stop the cracker from getting built, but given the plant is now 70% built and it’s a 100% guarantee it will get done
Read More...Air quality researcher Detlev Helmig could face civil and criminal prosecution for mixing funding slated for university research with his personal business pursuits, according to an audit recently released by his former employer, the University of Colorado Boulder. As the Boulder Daily Camera reports: “An audit of former University of Colorado Boulder researcher Detlev Helmig
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