RGGI Would Be A Tremendous Job-Devouring Machine

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Pennsylvania State Rep. Jim Struzzi is demanding Tom Wolf drop his petulant RGGI initiative now that the IRRC has recommended a delay. Pennsylvania’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) has said “whoa” as to implementing Tom Wolf’s RGGI plans for a new carbon tax on all Pennsylvanians. State Representative

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Moody and Associates Is Yet Another Marcellus Shale Success Story

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Moody and Associates is an environmental services company that has become an important part of the natural gas supply chain. Few, if any, of our industry partners have been around as long as Moody and Associates. They have been providing groundwater and environmental services for businesses, municipalities

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Think About Energy: President Biden’s First 100 Days

Natalie DeCarioExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … February’s free monthly Think About Energy webinar will focus on the first 100 days of the Biden Administration and their plan moving forward. As we roll into a new year, we know that few things remain unchanged. A new administration, economic recovery from a global pandemic,

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 30, 2021

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … 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. The Cuomo Coverup: Is There FinallySome Justice for Victims of Gov. Cuorupptocrat? New York Southern Tier residents learned who Andrew Cuomo

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Oil and Gas Jobs Are What It Is All About Here at NaturalGasNOW!

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … Job Killer Joe is making it difficult, but oil and gas jobs are out there and NaturalGasNOW is making sure you know about them! The dictatorship of Job Killer Joe, who immediately wiped out thousands of Keystone Pipeline jobs by Executive Order, is causing pipeliners real pain and we

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 23, 2021

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … 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. Biden Talks Unity, Sows Division, Take Orders by Earphone Joe Biden started off with a speech promoting unity and promptly signed

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Contractors Who Are Part of the Natural Gas Supply Chain Are Winners!

Natalie DeCarioExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor Comment: The natural gas supply chain is huge and includes hundreds of local contractors and their employees are benefitting economically.] In order to operate with success each day, the natural gas industry relies on local contractors in the region for their supporting services. Over the

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Philadelphia Has A Great Future, If We But Welcome It – Part III

Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia [Editor’s Note: Garland Thompson and his associate John Linder lay out an extremely compelling case for the Philadelphia economy if only it will have it.] On the eve of a new presidential administration, my colleagues and I on the downstream end of the business decided to send out

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Philadelphia Has A Great Future, If We But Welcome It – Part II

Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia [Editor’s Note: Garland Thompson and his associate John Linder lay out an extremely compelling case for the Philadelphia economy if only it will have it.] On the eve of a new presidential administration, my colleagues and I on the downstream end of the business decided to send out

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Philadelphia Has A Great Future, If We But Welcome It – Part I

Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia [Editor’s Note: Garland Thompson and his associate John Linder lay out an extremely compelling case for the Philadelphia economy if only it will have it.] On the eve of a new presidential administration, my colleagues and I on the downstream end of the business decided to send out

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Unjust Transition: Anti-Energy Groups Mock Unemployed Energy Workers

It’s becoming a pattern: anti-energy activists and fringe politicians claim to support a “just transition” for oil and natural gas workers to as-yet-uncreated jobs in other sectors. But then they applaud when those workers lose their jobs and future opportunities in oil and natural gas, and struggle to find other jobs to replace them. The

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Truckers Making It Happen in Gas Fields of Northeast Pennsylvania

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Truckers are key to the energy industry and so much else. They are the critical path for delivering food and supplying the gas industry. As the state and much of the country deal with a new round of restrictions, the trucking industry must keep moving. We need

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Fracking Is Delivering Everything Good It Promised and Much More for PA

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … An opinion piece in LehighValleyLive.com illustrates the shallowness of so much we see written about fracking by folks who don’t research. An opinion piece in LehighValleyLive.com last week, written by Dan Gordon, a Washington, D.C. writer on the subjects of “affordable housing, urban planning and industrial supply sectors”

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Restrooms, Fresh Water and Economic Opportunities

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Opportunities abound in the shale region, including the providing of such critically important services as portable restrooms in the field. The majority of activities involved with the natural gas industry occur outdoors. This means that access to modern conveniences for those who work the rigs and lay

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Pennsylvania Is Ready for Industry and Job Growth Thanks to Act 66

George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. Act 66 is paving the way to long-term jobs and economic development by providing tax credits to petrochemical production facilities in Pennsylvania. Since House Bill 732 was signed into law, Pennsylvania state legislators have been meeting with labor and energy experts to figure out the details. Their focus

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