Brenda Matias-Falco Week after week and month after month anti-fossil fuel “environmental” groups, aided and abetted by their willing accomplices in mainstream “media”, bash away at Energy Transfer’s Mariner East (ME) pipeline projects, particularly in the southeast PA region near Philadelphia. What you don’t hear are stories of how ME has transformed and benefited individuals
Read More...Last week Pennsylvania issued 25 new shale well drilling permits in both northeast and southwest PA, although most of the permits for SWPA. Ohio issued 4 new shale well permits, all of them to the same company (Encino Energy) and the same well pad (in Harrison County). West Virginia issued 6 new shale well permits,
Read More...In March 2019 MDN told you about National Fuel Gas Company’s (NFG) FM100 Project in northwestern Pennsylvania that will beef up and extend an existing pipeline network to flow an extra 330 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of Marcellus gas to Williams’ mighty Transco Pipeline (see NFG FM100 Pipe Project in NW PA to
Read More...The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) over the weekend published a final (revised) version of its Waste General Permit which governs how wastewater from shale fracking and produced water can be processed and reused for more drilling and fracking.This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Marcellus Shale impact fees help homebuyers with much needed upgrades and repairs, assuring they will be able to keep roofs over their heads. In 2020, the Commonwealth made nearly $46 million in Pennsylvania Housing Affordability and Rehabilitation Enhancement (PHARE) funding available for housing programs. The PHARE fund was
Read More...Leftists, like Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, always have to learn lessons the hard way. In August, Wolf’s Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) finalized and put into effect a massive increase in the permit fee to drill new shale wells, going from $5,000 per well to $12,500 (see Permit Fee to Drill PA Shale Well Officially
Read More...In Pennsylvania, there are two permits required by the Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) for nearly every shale well drilling project: A Chapter 102 (erosion and sediment control) and a Chapter 105 (water obstructions and encroachments). The DEP has proposed and is seeking comments on wide-ranging amendments to its Chapter 105 regulations.This post appeared first
Read More...Big Green groups conducted a highly coordinated effort to pack Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) virtual hearings on Gov. Tom Wolf’s $2.36 billion carbon tax scheme. Big Green claims 95% of those blabbering on during the hearings supported the tax, which would kill the gas-fired power generation industry in the state. There’s still time for
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania’s arrogant but hapless trust-funder Governor is shunting aside the state legislature in his quest to impose RGGI. Our friend Kevin Mooney, a top-notch investigative reporter for The Daily Signal, is out with another excellent piece exposing the petulant policies of our trust-funder governor, Tom Wolf.
Read More...George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. [Editor’s Note: PARSS (the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools) and Cabot are working together to bring technology to rural schools!] Whether in school, learning from home, or participating in a hybrid schooling program, gaps in technology have become more apparent than ever. Rural students
Read More...Connie MellinNatural Gas NOW“PAShaleAdvocate” Lake Apopka Natural Gas District says switching to natural gas can save you as much money in a year as most spend on Christmas. Lake Apopka Natural Gas District is promoting gas as the best gift out there this holiday season. In the United States, households that use natural gas
Read More...Do political, agenda-driven “researchers” never tire of spinning false narratives around fracking? When Michael Bloomberg pays your salary (as he does for researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), apparently not. Back in 2016, Brian Schwartz, a fellow at the Post Carbon Institute (virulent anti-fossil fuel group) was among a group of
Read More...Yesterday MDN brought you a post about the dramatic increase in natural gas-fired electric plants in the Marcellus/Utica, particularly Pennsylvania (see NatGas-Fired Power Plants in M-U See Dramatic Increase 2015-2019). Today we have another post (also from the U.S. Energy Information Administration) about gas-fired electric power. Gas-fracking giant Pennsylvania was the largest net exporter of
Read More...The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) is in major butt-covering mode with the state’s conventional (non-shale) oil and gas industry. During an industry-led advisory committee meeting held yesterday, members of PA’s conventional oil and gas industry delivered some rather blunt comments to DEP Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management Scott Perry, accusing the
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor’s Note: Tall Pines Players Club in Friendsville creates a Forest of Lights for the Christmas season with a little help from Cabot ticket purchases.] The Tall Pines Forest of Lights is back by popular demand! After becoming one of the leading holiday attractions in Susquehanna
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