PA Gov. Wolf Supports “Full” Fracking Ban in Delaware River Basin

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, arguably PA’s worst governor in a generation, has just thrown in his lot with uber-leftists Andrew Cuomo (governor of NY), Phil Murphy (governor of NJ), and John Carney (governor of DE) to support a total, permanent ban on fracking *and a ban on any drilling-related activities* in the Delaware River Basin

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PA Legislators Float Bill to Attract Cracker-Sized Projects to NEPA

Yesterday two northeast Pennsylvania legislators–state Representative Aaron Kaufer (Republican) and state Senator John Yudichak (Democrat)–hosted a rally to promote proposed new bipartisan legislation aimed at luring a “world-class” petrochemical manufacturing plant to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area. A big plant, on the order of the Shell cracker plant in southwestern PA. But no, not an ethane cracker.

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NESE Rejection by Andrew Cuomo Raises Key Questions

Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC The NESE rejection by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s DEC raises a whole host of serious questions about economic growth, bond ratings and the future of New York City. At 8:30 p.m. yesterday, the State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation rejected Williams Corporation’s proposal for the Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE)

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Susquehanna Students Get Up-Close and Personal with Heavy Equipment

Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … …  Susquehanna students from all the county climbed onto and into big rigs, buses and emergency vehicles on Vehicular Career Day to learn what it’s all about. More than 400 fifth graders from school districts across Susquehanna County climbed into big rigs, buses, and emergency vehicles on May 8

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Pennsylvania Supremes Deal Major Blow to Environmental Rights Abuse

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Our Pennsylvania Supremes have handed a major defeat to radicals such as the Delaware Povertykeeper on the heavily abused Environmental Rights Amendment. The Delaware Povertykeeper a/k/a Riverkeeper wasn’t part of this case but, you can be sure there was crying in their natural gas heated offices in Bristol

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EdgeMarc Energy Files for Bankruptcy, Blames Revolution Pipe

EdgeMarc Energy, headquartered in Canonsburg, PA (with 45,000 acres of Marcellus/Utica leases), is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, looking to sell all of the company’s assets. The reason? They can’t move their production to market because their main pipeline partner, Energy Transfer’s Revolution Pipeline, exploded last September and ET has not been able to get

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PA DEP Claims Energy Transfer Illegally Damaged Streams, Wetlands

Speaking of the exploded Revolution Pipeline located in southwestern Pennsylvania that’s led to a driller declaring bankruptcy (see EdgeMarc Energy Files for Bankruptcy, Blames Revolution Pipe Outage), yesterday the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued an order to Energy Transfer, builder of Revolution, to “identify and restore or mitigate all streams and wetlands that

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PA Supremes Say Drilling Allowed in ALL Districts of SWPA Town

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just upheld a lower court opinion that allows shale drilling to happen *anywhere* in a township, so long as such drilling satisfies standards to protect public health, safety and welfare. This is the end of the road for a lawsuit funded by Big Green that began in 2015 in Westmoreland

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What Will Mariner East and Energy Transfer Opponents Say About This?

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Energy Transfer, developer of the Mariner East pipelines, is the target of many a Southeast Pennsylvania demagogue, but how are they going to handle this? Energy Transfer owns Sunoco Logistics, which has developed the Mariner East pipelines. It has taken an incredible amount of abuse from Southeastern Pennsylvanian

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William Penn Foundation Funders Left Quite An Environmental Legacy

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  The William Penn Foundation was created by the Haas family of Rohm & Haas, which is now part of the DowDupont conglomerate and has left a chemical trail. No group has done more to undermine the welfare of Delaware River basin landowners and those who have to make a

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DRBC Injustice: Time for Harrisburg to Get Woke and Stay Frosty!

Betty SutliffWayne County LandownerUDRBC Secretary   Betty Sutliff, retired public school teacher and UDRBC secretary provides a lesson on the DRBC injustice, getting woke, staying frosty and other Millennial stuff. According to Steven Pratt, B.A. English and Teaching English as a Foreign Language, at the University of Utah, to be “woke” means you know what’s

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Water Trucks, Safety and a Museum of Natural Gas?

Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … …  Local officials from across Susquehanna County discussed water trucks, traffic, safety and even a Museum of Natural Gas at a Cabot sponsored get-together. Township supervisors and borough council representatives from across Susquehanna County were largely positive about the professionalism and good manners of drivers working for both Cabot

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Cabot O&G Having a Tough Time Filling Open Jobs in NEPA

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Several members of the Marcellus Shale industry spoke at a meeting of the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce yesterday, including MDN friend George Stark from Cabot Oil & Gas. George is director of

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Three Mile Island Unit 1 to shut by Sept. 30

The owner of the plant where North America’s worst nuclear power-related accident took place four decades ago, confirmed the facility’s lone remaining operating unit will shut down this September, Kallanish Energy reports. Exelon Generation said Three Mile Island (Tmi) Generating Station Unit 1, located near Middletown, Pennsylvania, on an island south of the state capital city

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Andrew Cuomo Takes New Yorkers on A Stupid Steamboat Trip

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Andrew Cuomo is repeating bad history from 1824 by trying to overrule Constitutional protection of free commerce. It’s a steamboat trip to the netherworld. Andrew Cuomo, as I noted the other day, just isn’t that smart, although he’s got lots of street smarts. He also cares nothing for

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