PennEast Pipeline Takes Another Step Forward in PA

Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … [Editor’s Note: There was a Pennsylvania DEP virtual hearing on thee PennEast Pipeline project this week and the need for the project was demonstrated.] The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) tonight hosted a virtual public hearing on two permit applications for construction of Phase 1 of the

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Chester County Commissioners Fail in Effort to Stop Mariner East

Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court has rejected a Chester County Commissioners request for an injunction to halt completion of the Mariner East pipeline. Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court has ruled against Chester County Commissioners and their attempt to secure an injunction to stop construction of the Mariner East pipeline project. The petition

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Delaware Riverkeeper Losers Denied at Supreme Court: ERA Plan Dashed

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Delaware Riverkeeper a/k/a PovertyKeeper plans to impose its ideology 200 miles from the Delaware using the Environmental Rights Amendment club are dead. The Delaware Riverkeeper, ignoring its charter and using money from the William Penn Foundation, traversed 200+ miles from the Delaware River to fight natural gas development

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Court Finds Tony “the Tiger” Ingraffea Clawless and Toothless

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … …  Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court has found Tony “the Tiger” Ingraffea wasn’t a credible witness in a case ginned up by the Heinz Endowments. He’s clawless! Two and one-half years ago we ran a guest post from our buddy Jim Willis about how Heinz Endowments shills such as the Clean

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Big Andy Dinniman Strikes Out Bigly in Commonwealth Court

Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Andy Dinniman is a big fellow and, appropriately enough, he has failed bigly in Commonwealth Court as a panel of judges has ruled he never even had standing. Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court today reversed a June 2018 order by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission that resulted from a taxpayer-funded

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Delaware PovertyKeeper Loses in Commonwealth Court Yet Again

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Delaware PovertyKeeper attempts to tie up the shale gas industry in litigation continue apace, but also continuing are losses in Commonwealth Court. Remember Middlesex Township, Butler County, where the Delaware PovertyKeeper, ignoring its charter, hopped 200+ miles beyond the Delaware to fight natural gas development in Western Pennsylvania?

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