28 U.S. House Democrats Ask FERC to Reject MVP Southgate Project

A group of 28 House Democrats asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to deny a request from the developers of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to extend the project 75 miles into North Carolina, called MVP Southgate, arguing in a letter this week that Southgate’s construction would pose serious climate and environmental risks to…

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52 NC Legislators Join Gov. in Seeking to Block MVP Southgate

Earlier this week, we told you that North Carolina Gov. Roy “Dud” Cooper does what the wacko left tells him to do, namely oppose the Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate project (see NC Leftist Gov. Cooper Asks FERC to Deny MVP Southgate More Time). He isn’t the only one. Some 52 North Carolina State House and…

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NC Leftist Gov. Cooper Asks FERC to Deny MVP Southgate More Time

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is a dud. He does what the wacko left tells him to do–no mind of his own. He’s like Joe Biden, except on a smaller scale, limited to harming just North Carolina and not the entire country. Yesterday Cooper sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) asking…

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Equitrans Asks FERC for Extra 3 Years to Build MVP Southgate to NC

Early last week, we published a post about the possibility that Equitrans would revive its moribund project to build the 75-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) Southgate project from the current MVP terminus in Pittsylvania County, VA, to Alamance County, NC (see MVP Completion in 2023 Gives New Hope for MVP Southgate in NC). We told

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MVP Completion in 2023 Gives New Hope for MVP Southgate in NC

It took an Act of Congress, but the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), which stretches from Wetzel County, WV, to Pittsylvania County, VA, will be, according to the builder and primary owner, Equitrans, completed and online by the end of this year (see Equitrans Announces Mountain Valley Pipe to Get Completed in 2023). Equitrans had

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Offshore Wind: The Great Stampede Over the Long Island Cliff

Offshore Wind: The Great Stampede Over the Long Island Cliff Mark Stevens NaturalGasNOW Retired Science/Technology Educator and Musician   [Editor’s Note: New York is nothing if not politically correct and its offshore wind virtue signaling amounts to a stampede over the cliff for New Yorkers who pay the bills.] The stampede to build offshore wind turbines

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks – December 31, 2022

Natural Gas Now Best Picks – December 31, 2022 Tom Shepstone Shepstone 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. This week; rollin’ blackouts, a billionaire battery minerals scam, the net zero lie and snowplowing by battery.

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Blue Ridge Pkwy Says Dominion Pipe has “No Significant Impact”

In February, MDN brought you news about a “last mile” pipeline from Dominion Energy (see Will Dominion Back Down on… Continue reading The post Blue Ridge Pkwy Says Dominion Pipe has “No Significant Impact” first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 3, 1922!

Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 3, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100

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Colonial Pipeline Incident Suddenly Illustrates Importance of Pipelines!

germany … …[Editor’s Note: The Colonial Pipeline shutdown illustrates just how critical pipelines really are to everyday life as we know it. Even fractivists need gas!] On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45 percent of petroleum products consumed on the East Coast, was cyber-attacked. The pipeline transports gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and

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Offshore Wind Is Off the Charts Political Nonsense

WeSo, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Offshore wind makes no economic or environmental sense whatsoever. It is pure politics intended merely to reward special interests.] The Biden administration has announced plans to vastly expand the use of offshore wind power along the U.S. East Coast. The plan sets a goal of deploying 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind turbines

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Monroe, NC Launches New LNG Plant to Keep Gas Prices Low

The City of Monroe, North Carolina is a shining example of what other cities should do. The city recently launched a new LNG facility online (took three years to build). The city buys natural gas on the open market when the price is low, liquefies and stores it, and then regasifies it for use later–saving

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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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Anti-Fossil Fuel NC Dems Ask FERC to Cancel Atlantic Coast Pipe

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. A group of 22 anti-fossil fuel Democrat legislators from North Carolina’s Senate and House have sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) asking FERC to cancel Dominion Energy’s 600-mile

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FERC Issues Timeline to Decide on Mountain Valley Pipe Expansion

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. click for larger version Equitrans’ 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from West Virginia to southern Virginia is now 70% done (see Shocker: Mountain Valley Pipeline Now 70% Built, Online by 4Q19). Last

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