Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Fractivists grasp at everything to diss the natural gas industry, including safety, but it turns out the industry has an ever improving record on this score. Back in 2014, Scranton Times writer and king of snide, Chris Kelly, attacked the natural gas industry and everything and everyone connected to
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Natural gas consumption was up big-time in the U.S. in 2018, signaling not only an economic boom in this country but also the start of a golden age of gas. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is out with another of its wonderful reports offering “just the facts” and the facts
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. If you want to appreciate just how much damage Andrew Cuomo has done to New York take a quick look at the machinations of his Public Service Commission. Last month, as the potential for a moratorium on natural gas connections in the New York City metro area loomed, the New
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about the PennEast pipeline, ConEd moratorium, Connecticut solar and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH station!
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. GE will provide its record-setting HA gas turbine, the company’s most advanced and efficient technology ever, for a new energy project in Eastern Ohio. Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors LLC is developing a project known as the Long Ridge Energy Terminal in Eastern Ohio. It will, according to the company,
Read More...Two associations representing business interests in the Canadian city of Victoria recently wrote letters to the city’s mayor, Lisa Helps, asking her to back away from a resolution calling for a class-action lawsuit from local municipalities demanding payment for climate related damages to local infrastructure. The Victoria lawsuit would have many hurdles to clear and
Read More...A new wave of aggressive anti-oil and natural gas legislation is cropping up in several states, driven by national “Keep It In the Ground” (KIITG) groups that have failed numerous attempts at the federal level to restrict development. Emboldened by the introduction of the “Green New Deal”, KIITG groups have made it clear that nothing
Read More...Yesterday’s decision echoed similar actions Adams County took ahead of the 2018 election, when Proposition 112—or the mandated 2,500-foot setback—was on the ballot. This time, commissioners chose to put a stop to oil and gas activity in anticipation of a rush of permits being filed before SB-181 passes the state legislature and goes into effect. The move
Read More...Earthquake activity in Oklahoma declined for the third straight year in 2018 even as oil and natural gas development increased in the area, according to the latest data from the U.S. Geological Survey. As EID’s updated infographic shows, seismic activity decreased by a whopping 83 percent – falling from a peak of 887 earthquakes in
Read More...Surging production that made 2018 a banner year for U.S. oil and natural gas is carrying into the new year, data show. Success in shale development across the country spurred natural gas production to hit a new record high in 2018 for the second consecutive year. Meanwhile, oil production continues to outpace 2018’s record highs
Read More...District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine’s investigation of ExxonMobil over climate change has opened the door to hedge funds and other monied interests to directly profit from the #ExxonKnew campaign. Last week, Racine went public with his plans to begin a formal inquiry into the energy company’s business practices. Racine is not the first
Read More...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
Read More...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
Read More...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
Read More...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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