Upper DelawareRiver Basin Citizens …. …. The UDRBC held another very successful candidate night last week and Jim Bognet exposed Cong. Cartwright as a rich Canadian interloper. The Beach Lake Fire Hall was the location of a Meet the Candidates evening hosted by the Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens (UDRBC) on October 20, 2020. The
Read More...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. Anti-Fracking Crusade Running Out of Gas? Dan Markind does an election overview with respect to states where fracking has been an
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Painterland is the name of a very special farm where natural gas and organic dairy products are still produced thanks to natural gas. October is Farm to School Month in Pennsylvania, and Oct. 12 was National Farmers Day. Many in the agricultural industry take this month to help people
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Something remarkable has happened thanks to Joe Biden, whose fracking debacle has gotten pushback and much deserved media attention. Our former guest blogger, Dan Markind, has moved on to writing some excellent energy columns for Forbes magazine. Dan was always an observer par excellence when it came to
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) PA DEP hassles Mariner East 2 pipeline project over Snitz Creek spill of what amounts to harmless kitty litter. Once again the Mariner East 2 pipeline project is up Snitz Creek…without a paddle? There have been a number of “inadvertent returns” or mud spills in Snitz Creek, place where
Read More...A new study published in PLOS ONE in August suggests residents in southwestern Pennsylvania surrounded by oil and gas facilities may suffer from more health complaints, according to EOS. People living near oil and gas wells in southwestern Pennsylvania reported sore throat, burning eyes, headaches and more to researchers. Researchers estimated exposure to oil and
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Nick DeIuliis continues to impress as he lays out CNX plans for adroitly positioning the company’s capital by being “ruthlessly rational.” A few months ago CNX Resources bought out and merged in the remaining amount of CNX Midstream the company didn’t already own (see CNX Resources Buying/Merging in Rest of
Read More...A group of anti-fossil nutters who devoted themselves to blocking Marcellus/Utica drilling around the Ambridge Reservoir have turned their attention to the Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County. They wanted to stop the cracker from getting built, but given the plant is now 70% built and it’s a 100% guarantee it will get done
Read More...It’s like the coming and going of the four seasons (or two seasons if you live in Binghamton, NY, summer for two months, winter the rest of the time). On a regular schedule, anti-fossil fuel organizations fund “studies” that supposedly show links between fracking and harmful effects to humans who live near fracking. The latest
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. We told you Rep. Wendy Ullman was only into doing political theater as a legislator but now she’s proven it by her comment to Tom Wolf. Senator Lisa Baker and Rep. Jonathan Fritz have been long pursuing legislation that would treat any Delaware River Basin Commission fracking as
Read More...By any measure, it’s obvious to see that shale *drilling* activity in northcentral Pennsylvania counties–including Bradford, Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Sullivan, and Tioga–is on the “bust” side over the past five-plus years. 2016 was the low point. However, is there any hope of seeing another boom in shale drilling in the region?This post appeared first on
Read More...We love to hear about companies born in the Marcellus/Utica grow up and expand to other regions. One such company is Deep Well Services, which expanded from our region into the Permian, and now, to another country (see SWPA’s Deep Well Services Going International w/Unit in Argentina). Steel Nation, another of our favorite companies, is
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … .. Natural gas benefits to shale region communities all across Pennsylvania are simply huge. That was the message heard at Think About Energy. Improvements in education, quality of life, and community resilience were common threads in a virtual Think About Energy discussion facilitated by Cabot external affairs director George Stark
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Resource Environmental Management is a service company, yet another that has achieved much success serving the natural gas industry. When Dawn and Jerry Washo decided to return to Pennsylvania from St. Louis, Missouri to raise their family, Montrose in Susquehanna County appealed to them. The small-town
Read More...George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. A Cabot Oil & Gas career opportunity and the love of nature moved the Cordovas family to Susquehanna County. Alejandro Cordova got his early education in Mexico, and moved to Brooklyn, NY, where he started a family and found work in construction. The experience that he
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