Glen Riddle Station Case No Riddle at All for PUC

Glen Riddle Station Case No Riddle at All for PUC Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN)   [Editor’s Note: A noise fine issued to Mariner East has been reversed by the PUC for good reasons but note the pipeline before the Glen Riddle Station residents who complained.] In March, MDN told

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Pennsylvania Can and Should Be Northeast Energy Hub

Nonfossil Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Pennsylvania has the Northeast in its hands if it will develop its resources to become the energy hub needed. Pipelines are the key to realizing it all.] Charlie Melançon is a former U.S. Congressman (Democrat) from Louisiana who played an integral role in

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NGL Pipelines Now on the Way As Shale Revolution Continues!

Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Three NGL pipelines now in the works will make a big difference in the ability of the industry to move Marcellus-Utica shale gas products to the outside world.] We’re always jazzed when we unearth information related to the Marcellus/Utica nobody else has yet discovered

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Revolution Pipeline A Huge Success Story for Keystone State

Earl BakerEarl Baker Consulting and Former Pennsylvania State Senator … …. [Editor’s Note: The Revolution Pipeline, now online, will take natural gas through Butler, Beaver, Allegheny and Washington counties ensuring energy security.] In a momentous milestone for Pennsylvania, the Revolution Pipeline is now online. Over the past decade, energy has provided the Keystone State and

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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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DEP Called Out by Environmental Hearing Board for Jumping the Gun

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board has called out DEP for hasty action in ordering a reroute of the Mariner East pipeline. It’s nice to see Pennsylvania DEP “hoist with his own petard.” Yes, very nice, indeed. That’s what just happened with a decision by the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing

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New Fortress Facility Is Keystone to Appalachian Gas Development

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  The New Fortress export facility is being fought by the Delaware PovertyKeeper because it’s key to so much regarding natural gas. Our buddy, Jim Willis, from Marcellus Drilling News, has an excellent piece explaining so much of why the Delaware PovertyKeeper a/k/a Riverkeeper is so adamantly opposed to

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DEP Trashes ET for Following the Direction It Provided!

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) “ET Go Home” seems to be the message as the Pennsylvania DEP engages in shameless projection against ET to distract from its own failures. The bad blood between Energy Transfer (ET) and the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) continues. ET’s Sunoco Pipeline subsidiary is desperately trying to complete

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Snitz Creek Spill of Harmless Bentonite Sends DEP Into Silly Snit

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) PA DEP hassles Mariner East 2 pipeline project over Snitz Creek spill of what amounts to harmless kitty litter. Once again the Mariner East 2 pipeline project is up Snitz Creek…without a paddle? There have been a number of “inadvertent returns” or mud spills in Snitz Creek, place where

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Rep. Danielle “Karen” Otten Caught Trespassing in Mariner East Fight

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Rep. Danielle “Karen” Otten is a radical Mariner East opponent and has, once again, stepped in it by trespassing on private property. Wikipedia is hardly a reliable source but does provide insights into the thinking or lack thereof behind trendy language; modern slang such as “Karen,” for example.

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Plastics Makers Indicate Delaware Valley Opportunity, Despite Naysayers

Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia Garland Thompson carefully explains the opportunities created by natural gas, plastics makers and the Mariner East despite usual suspect opposition. A Delaware Business Now story on Glasgow-based Polymer Technologies raises interesting implications. If i were to hazard a guess, I’d say Polymer Technologies gets its propylene, polypropylene and

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Mariner East Pipeline Construction Yields Real Progress

Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … [Mariner East is moving ahead to complete construction with another 13 miles under the belt over the last several weeks. It’s a beautiful thing for sure!] Deemed an essential business and a vital energy asset for the commonwealth, construction on Mariner East resumed in March, putting skilled laborers

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Mama Bear Brigade: Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Greenies

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … A phony group called the Mama Bear Brigade did a very weird Mariner East pipeline protest yesterday in the middle of a pandemic in still red Delaware County. We love Waylon Jennings here at NaturalGasNOW. He and his Highwaymen pals did a beautiful rendering of “Mamas Don’t Let

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