Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOWContributing Writer [Editor’s Note: NaturalGasNOW started eight years ago and now has published over 5,000 posts with no factual rebuttal worthy of the term as the shale revolution keeps rolling!] As a frequent reader of NaturalGasNow and an occasional contributor, it’s been fascinating to look at not only the content of some
Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Three NGL pipelines now in the works will make a big difference in the ability of the industry to move Marcellus-Utica shale gas products to the outside world.] We’re always jazzed when we unearth information related to the Marcellus/Utica nobody else has yet discovered
Tammy BonniceCommunity Outreach/Field Office Manager, Williams Companies … … [Editor’s Note: Williams Companies pitches in to help Tunkhannock CTE students with tiny house and trout projects at Patriots Cove.] Williams Companies has been proud to partner with local schools like Tunkhannock Area High School for many years. But rarely do the stars align that several
Upper DelawareRiver Basin Citizens … … [Editor’s Note: The UDRBC, together with EnviroVentures, reward two students with agricultural and natural gas related scholarships for their writing and achievements.] The Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens Scholarship Committee was pleased to announce the recipient of the 2021 UDRBC Agricultural Scholarship Award. Honesdale High School senior Emma Diliberti,
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: The Adelphia Gateway Pipeline project to convert an oil pipeline to gas has received FERC permission to complete construction. About time!] New Jersey Resources’ Adelphia Gateway project is a plan to convert an old oil pipeline stretching from Northampton County, Pennsylvania through Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester counties,
Earl BakerEarl Baker Consulting and Former Pennsylvania State Senator … …. [Editor’s Note: The Revolution Pipeline, now online, will take natural gas through Butler, Beaver, Allegheny and Washington counties ensuring energy security.] In a momentous milestone for Pennsylvania, the Revolution Pipeline is now online. Over the past decade, energy has provided the Keystone State and
Tom ShepstoneShepstone 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. As usual, emphasis is added. What Goes Around Comes Around! Remember the story about Reagan and how the press called him an idiot for saying trees
Pennsylvania democratic lawmakers introduced a group of bills intended to tighten up shale gas industry regulations within the state, according to Farm and Dairy. The legislation is a response to last summer’s grand jury report on the industry, which found the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection failed to protect residents from the health impacts of hydraulic
natural gas … …[Editor’s Note: BX3 Supply & Rental is living proof of the multiplier benefits of the Marcellus shale revolution in Northeastern Pennsylvania] This month, our contractor spotlight shines on BX3 Supply & Rental owner and president Bill Kelley. The Springville resident and 1970 Elk Lake High School graduate got his first lessons in management from
Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … .. Cabot donation to Parkway West Career & Technology Center will help prepare students to enter the workforce after graduation. On April 29 Cabot Oil & Gas visited Parkway West Career & Technology Center to present them with a $35,000 check. The funds are part of the Educational Improvement
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Pennsylvania Act 266 offers the Commonwealth an open door to transformative economic benefits; an approach unlike any other Northeast state.] Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed into law House Bill (HB) 732 in July, 2020. It is a bill that grants future tax credits to companies willing to
The Pennsylvania legislature is revisiting the prospect of looser environmental standards to conventional oil and gas drillers, according to StateImpact Pennsylvania. If passed House Bill 1144 would make it so companies don’t have to report oil spills under five barrels or brine spills under 15 barrels “unless there is an immediate threat to public health,
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Some 25 United States Senators, including three Democrats, have warned FERC and its politically correct chair to knock off the games.] If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) thinks it is going to change the rules for how it approves existing, already-filed applications for pipelines, it needs
George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. [Editor’s Note: Cabot Oil and Gas is reducing GHG emissions intensity by an astounding 58% in 2020 compared to 2019 — a huge achievement that says so much!] When you’re a natural gas operator, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG emissions) are top of mind. Identifying areas of
Gordon TombSenior Advisor, CO2 Coalition .. …. [Editor’s Note: Nothing rises above freedom in importance to human life, but climate cultists would steal it in the name of human life, based on nothing more than their ideology.] When my buddy Bill and I were 16 we’d jump into his 1954 Mercury for a day away from