FERC Report Tells the Story as the Shale Revolution Moves Ever Forward

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  The recently released FERC State of the Markets Report, 2018″ report is an update on the progress of the shale revolution as it moves forward claiming new territory. The highlights say it all (emphasis added): Natural gas markets experienced record high demand and supply. Natural gas storage fell to

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Big Green, Inc. – The Sources of the Money Behind Fractivism

 ... … … Fractivism is anything but grassroots. Rather, it is funded and orchestrated Big Green, Inc. and the Institute for Energy Research is documenting it all. Last year, as readers might recall, IER launched Big Green, Inc. to began exposing the under-the-radar funders that underwrite the anti-American energy movement and its anti-fracking ballot measures,

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The Extraordinary Environmental Benefits of Natural Gas

Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … The environmental benefits of natural gas are truly extraordinary, although fractivists are loathe to admit they exist. The truth is in the numbers, though. Did you know that natural gas is clean burning? This is good news for the atmosphere: replacing traditional dirtier energy sources with

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NESE Project Divides Ordinary New Yorkers and Elite Environmentalists

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc.   A video highlighting the support of New York City public housing leaders for the NESE project illustrates the gap between ordinary New Yorkers and elites. Too much of environmentalism is pure elitism. It elevates aesthetics above the needs of ordinary human beings for the basic necessities of human life.

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PA Sen. Gene Yaw to Intro Bill Blocking NatGas Sales to NY-NJ-MD

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. PA State Sen. Gene Yaw Over the years MDN has heard the oft-repeated comment that if New York and other states want to block new pipelines, maybe Pennsylvania should quit shipping its

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Bucks County Group Asks PA DEP for Baseline Tests re Adelphia Pipe

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. click map for larger version A group of residents from Bucks County, PA (near Philadelphia), calling themselves Bucks County Concerned Citizens Against the Pipeline (kind of gives away their true aim, no?)

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PA House Committee Votes to Restore Sanity to Enviro Regulations

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Swamp dwellers are recoiling in horror that the Pennsylvania House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee has just approved a series of bills that restores some sanity in how environmental regulations are made

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PA DEP Committee Votes to Approve Onerous New Air Regs

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Yesterday the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee voted to recommend the DEP move forward with a proposed new regulation to control volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions,

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Now, This Is Real Workforce Development. Thank Natural Gas!

Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … When it comes to workforce development, no one has done more than the natural gas industry. Cabot Oil & Gas offers a great example of how much has be done. In Pennsylvania, where Cabot’s operations are located, the oil and gas industry accounts for more than

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Huntley & Huntley Proposes Another Well Pad in Upper Burrell

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Upper Burrell Twp Huntley & Huntley continues to make Upper Burrell in Westmoreland County, PA a key area of focus. In January we told you about H&H’s plans to add two more

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New Wastewater Recycling Facility Coming in May to NEPA

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. A joint announcement between Kendra II LLC and De Nora says a new wastewater recycling facility aimed at the shale industry will go online in late May providing drillers in the “heart

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Two Possible Paths for PA’s Energy Future in 25 Years

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. What will Pennsylvania’s future with respect to energy look like 25 years from now? What role will shale gas play? And how will that role affect the state? A group of 35

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British Tabloid Smear Job on Mariner East Pipe Targets Gov. Wolf

This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. We’re in the unusual position of defending Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, arguably the worst governor PA has had in a generation. But defend him (and his staff) we must, because the Wolf

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Utica Shale Brings $70 Billion of Investment to Ohio and There’s More

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc.   The Utica Shale has brought $70 billion of investment to Ohio and there’s more to be had. The Utica also underlies most of the Marcellus. Imagine that! When we think Utica Shale, we tend to think Ohio because that’s where the oil and gas industry has put $70 billion

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Pa. DEP investigates water well contamination

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is investigating what could end up being the first case of water well contamination from fracking in Allegheny County, Pa., since the shale boom began, according to State Impact. Shortly after the Midas 8M well was completed, a landowner near the well reported that his water well nearly dried up, its

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