Sunoco, DEP Settle on $200K Fine for ME1 Pipe Leak in 2017

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. The Mariner East 1 pipeline sprung a small leak and spilled 20 barrels (~840 gallons) of ethane and propane in Berks County, near Philadelphia, on April 1, 2017 (see Mariner East 1

Read More...

Living with ME2 Pipeline Construction in Your Back Yard

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. We spotted a story about landowners in the Philadelphia suburbs who currently have to live with construction of the Mariner East 2 pipelines (plural, there are two of them, ME2 and ME2X),

Read More...

Fed Judge Reverses Class Action in PA Landowner Lawsuit v. Shell

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. A notable development in a lawsuit that before now, we were unaware of. Several landowners in Venango County (northwest PA) filed a lawsuit against Shell’s SWEPI drilling subsidiary in 2013 claiming SWEPI

Read More...

Cabot Settles Overtime Work Lawsuit by 80 PA Workers for $3.56M

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. A second lawsuit we’re reporting on today that had previously slipped by our usually good radar. A former Cabot Oil & Gas employee filed a lawsuit in October 2017 alleging that he

Read More...

Lots of Marcellus Jobs in Northeast PA – More Workers Needed

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. There are plenty of jobs in the shale industry in northeastern Pennsylvania–IF you have certain skills. What kind of skills? The kind that are taught at programs like at the Lackawanna College

Read More...

New Jersey’s Renewable Mandates Will Send Electric Bills to the Moon

 ... … … New Jersey’s already high electric bills are about to get higher. As the Governor proposes more renewables and subsidies, ratepayers will foot the bill. People who believe that wind and solar power are lowering their electric bills should look at New Jersey. Garden State electric bills are increasing to cover the costs

Read More...

PA DEP Releases Onerous New Air Regulations, Again

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. In December, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) released a draft of onerous new regulations that focus on reducing volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions and so-called fugitive methane (see Pa. DEP

Read More...

Frac Sand Flap – Pittsburgh Logistics Co. Sues Texas Sand Co.

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. On Friday, Arrow Material Services (based in Sewickley, PA) filed a lawsuit against Superior Silica Sands, also known as Emerge Energy Services (based in Fort Worth, TX) in Allegheny County Court for

Read More...

PA Anti Group Seeks to Block New NatGas Elec Plants with New Law

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. The radical group Citizens for a Healthy Jessup is floating a plan to try and prevent any new Marcellus gas-fired electric plants from getting built in the Keystone State. Aided and abetted

Read More...

Absent Andy Dinniman Does Stupid Anti-Pipeline Stunt for Attention

Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Absent Andy Dinniman is at it again, pushing a bill to suspend Pennsylvania PUC and DEP regulation of natural gas liquid pipelines. It’s a stupid stunt. When it comes to pipeline development, Sen. Dinniman says he just wants to ensure it’s done right and done safely. The reality

Read More...

Susquehanna County Emergency Responders Talk Safety

Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … …  Officers from 10 Western Susquehanna County fire companies attended a dinner and safety discussion hosted by Cabot Oil & Gas on March 20. As natural gas drilling escalates in Susquehanna County, so too does the amount of traffic associated with the industry and the need for first responders

Read More...

Philly Council Delays Vote on LNG Export Plant, Loonies Protest

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Earlier this month MDN told you that a plan to build a $60 million Marcellus LNG export facility on property owned by Philadelphia Gas Works was just one vote away from becoming

Read More...

Washington County, PA Got $560M of Shale Investment in ’18

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Washington County, PA Washington County, PA (southwestern part of the state) brought in $560 million in new investment, along with 725 new jobs, in 2018. The vast majority of that new investment

Read More...

Lawless Bullies Gear Up to Fight Constitution Pipeline (Again)

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … The Delaware Povertykeeper and other hired gentry class bullies are preparing to fight the Consitution Pipeline again as prospects for FERC approval rise. Anti-fossil fuel radicals are making noises, threatening noises, about how they may react when and if (as seems likely) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Read More...