Shale Gas News – July 27, 2019

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 Range Resources, Lack of new NYC gas, West Virginia cracker plant and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104

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Pennsylvania regulations partially upheld by court

Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court has issued a split decision on environmental regulations on Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling, ruling in part on the side of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, who challenged the regulations 16 days after they took effect, according to WCN 24/7. The seven-judge panel issued a 91-page decision against the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental

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Toby Rice, the New Head of EQT, Wanted to Drill Here First

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Toby Rice, the young, hard-charging guy who just won a war to take over EQT, the nation’s largest natural gas producer, wanted to drill in the DRBC region. Toby Rice is set to become the new CEO of the largest natural gas producer in the United States. He’s

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Six minutes alter direction of U.S.’s largest gas producer

It wasn’t hard to figure out the backers of the two sides in the proxy battle between independent producer EQT and dissidents known as the Rice Team Wednesday morning, at the long-awaited annual meeting. Kallanish Energy was on hand for the meeting. Body language and facial expressions for status quo EQT, represented by CEO Rob

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Gas Drilling Today: So Many Innovations, So Much Expertise

Madison WeaverCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … Gas drilling today is a story of innovation and companies such as Cabot Oil and Gas have been growing their expertise every day for many years now. “It has been such an amazing journey to watch this program develop and to be proud of what

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Shale Gas News – July 6, 2019

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 PA Budget, LNG exports, impact fee distribution and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH

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Pipeline Supporters Rally for Atlantic Coast Pipeline Against Enviro Elites

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Pipelines supporters from affected North Carolina communities have had enough of environmental activists and political elites standing in their way. Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), a $7 billion, 600-mile pipeline that will stretch from West Virginia into North Carolina, is facing an existential threat by leftist environmentalists. The project is

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Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – July 6, 2019

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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. Oreos Deal Anything But Black and White The manufacturer of Oreos says it’s cut a deal to buy

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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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The Local Natural Gas Benefits of Local Natural Gas

Madison WeaverCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … Natural gas benefits are many to the environment, our energy security and the economies of both rural and urban areas, but local benefits stand out bigly. Oil and natural gas production doesn’t happen in a bubble; aside from creating new jobs, natural gas production also

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Shale Gas News – June 29, 2019

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 impact fee distribution, EQT, PPT Cracker Plant and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH station!

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Williams forms $3.8B joint venture in Marcellus, Utica shale plays

Williams, an energy infrastructure company headquartered in Oklahoma, recently completed the formation of a $3.8 billion joint venture with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, according to Oil & Gas 360. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will trade $1.33 billion for a 35% ownership in Williams’ pipeline systems, including the Ohio Valley Midstream system

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Marcellus Shale Coalition responds to request to halt fracking in Pa.

Following a special report that pointed the finger at the shale gas industry for cases of childhood cancer in southwest Pennsylvania and a letter from residents calling for the industry to be shut down to determine whether or not there is a connection, the Marcellus Shale Coalition sent its own letter to Gov. Tom Wolf

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Gibbstown LNG Deal Shows More New Jersey Duplicity Than DRBC

Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia Garland Thompson explains what really happened with the Gibbstown LNG deal. It reveals New Jersey duplicity more so than it does DRBC double-dealing. Let’s think again about that DRBC unanimous vote supporting New Fortress Energy’s shipping pier for its truck-mounted LNG export plan. From this vantage, it’s more

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DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini Gets Snarky Over Lobbying Assertion

Betty SutliffWayne County LandownerUDRBC Secretary   DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini didn’t like being called out for lobbying the Pennsylvania legislature in opposition to Jonathan Fritz’s H.B. 827. On June 6, 2019, several members of the Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens attended the Upper Delaware Council (UDC) meeting in Narrowsburg.  DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini

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