October marked the 20th anniversary since the first Marcellus Shale well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 2004. Like Pennsylvania’s Drake Well, which launched commercial oil drilling across the world in 1859, Range Resource’s Renz #1 has been a game-changer for the Commonwealth and the United States. As Jeff Kotula, president of the Washington County Chamber of
Read More...Natural Gas, Which Saved the Day, Blamed by NERC? Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: NERC, the North American Energy Reliability Corporation, has put out a report that seems to blame natural gas for an almost blackout last year but it isn’t so.] Less than a year ago,
Read More...Natural Gas: The Indispensable Fuel for Energy Security Ed Ireland Energy Economist and Writer at edireland.substack.com … … [Editor’s Note: This is a guest post regarding indispensable natural gas from our friend Ed Ireland at “Thoughts about Energy and Economics.” It is a reader-supported publication, so please go there, “Like” it, share it with friends
Read More...Penn College (and Other Great Schools) Earn Coterra Support! George Stark Director, External Affairs Coterra Energy … .. [Editor’s Note: Coterra Energy has been a huge vocational education supporter and the amazing Penn College is one of several schools to earn financial support from the company.] Coterra is a staunch advocate of career and technology
Read More...A wealthy national anti-fossil fuel organization that recruits municipal and state plaintiffs to file lawsuits against energy companies for the effects of climate change now appears to have its sights on Pennsylvania, America’s second largest natural gas producing state. The effort to encourage local officials to sue American energy companies will surely be a tough
Read More...Environmental Justice for Whom? Pennsylvania Goes PC! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. [Editor’s Note: Environmental justice is a completely phony concept that does precisely nothing for the intended beneficiaries and, in fact, only makes it harder to help them.] Government is nothing if not faddish; that is to say vulnerable to those
Read More...Mountain Valley Pipeline Politicos Talk A Good Game, But… Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: The politicos supporting the Mountain Valley Pipeline are talking a good game but only impeachment of tyrant judges will do if they want to end the nonsense.] On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin
Read More...Our Fuel Cell Future Is Here and It’s Absolutely Beautiful! Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Yes, fuel cell technology is real, it’s here and it’s beautiful. It’s natural gas with virtually no emissions and mover and shaker Toby Rice is pushing it.] A fuel cell manufacturer located
Read More...Dennis Farm Preserved with Help from Coterra Energy Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … .. [Editor’s Note: The Dennis Farm is a marvelous example of how the oil and gas industry works with communities to make them truly sustainable in the very best sense of the word.] Coterra Energy has enjoyed a long relationship with
Read More...Climate Bullies and Cultists Confronted by Unafraid Realist Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Global warming isn’t science for climate bullies. It’s a religious cult for these true believers and a sweet spot for the corporatist funders who enable them.] Here’s a scientific fact: Humans (indeed all animals)
Read More...Pennsylvania’s natural gas impact fee set a new record this year generating $279 Million across all of the Commonwealth’s 67 counties, according to the Public Utility Commission’s most recent report. This represents a 19 percent increase year-over-year. All told, the impact fee has generated more than $2.5 billion since 2012, and supported county, municipal, and
Read More...Northern Access Pipeline Needs to Stop Placing Games with NY Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: The Northern Access Pipeline has been playing games with a deceitful New York State government for far too long. It’s time to play hardball by going above it.] National Fuel Gas Company
Read More...NRDC Shill in PA House Aims to Starve State and Feed China Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Rep. Greg Vitali, whether he knows it or not, is acting as a shill for China by trying to kill hydrogen development in Pennsylvania if it involves natural gas.] Even
Read More...Youngkin Axes Virginia Participation in RGGI Carbon Tax! Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Glenn Youngkin has beaten back opposition and taken the Commonwealth of Virginia out of the RGGI carbon tax regime that only steers money to climate grifters.] In 2021 as he was running for the
Read More...Natural Gas (and Oil) Industry Has Come A Very Long Way! George Stark Director, External Affairs Coterra Energy … .. [Editor’s Note: The natural gas and oil industry is one of the most adaptive and innovative enterprises that has ever existed, which is precisely why its enemies never succeed.] The natural gas and oil industry
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