The Pennsylvania House recently advanced legislation that seeks to ensure responsible oversight of the conventional oil and gas industry, aiming to protect the environment and safeguard industry stability within the Commonwealth, according to the Pennsylvania Business Report. Senate Bill 790, sponsored by state Sen. Joseph B. Scarnati (R-25), would enact the Conventional Oil and Gas
Read More...The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is seeking public comment via three virtual public hearings on draft regulations that would reduce air pollution from existing natural gas wells and infrastructure, according to Kallanish Energy. The proposed regulations would restrict volatile organic compounds and would also reduce methane emissions. Additionally, they would require additional controls at
Read More...A new report from the Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office has reported a 6.8% increase in quarterly natural gas production, according to Kallanish Energy. The report stated production increased to 1,766 billion cubic feet in the first quarter of 2020, compared to 1,654 billion cubic feet during the same period in 2019. The 6.8% growth rate
Read More...Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … [Mariner East is moving ahead to complete construction with another 13 miles under the belt over the last several weeks. It’s a beautiful thing for sure!] Deemed an essential business and a vital energy asset for the commonwealth, construction on Mariner East resumed in March, putting skilled laborers
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. Senator Yudichak Speaks His Thoughts on Energy Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, in cooperation with Penn’s Northeast, the Wyoming County Chamber
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … A phony group called the Mama Bear Brigade did a very weird Mariner East pipeline protest yesterday in the middle of a pandemic in still red Delaware County. We love Waylon Jennings here at NaturalGasNOW. He and his Highwaymen pals did a beautiful rendering of “Mamas Don’t Let
Read More...Peregrine Energy Partners, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, continues a program to buy royalty rights in the Marcellus/Utica. In January 2019 we told you about Peregrine’s purchase of rights from undisclosed sellers in southwest PA (see Peregrine Energy Buys Royalty Rights in Greene County, PA). In March of this year, Peregrine purchased more rights, in Fayette
Read More...On Wednesday the Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case challenging whether or not the state Attorney General’s office has the right to use a consumer protection law to prosecute companies like Chesapeake Energy and Anadarko over royalty payment shenanigans. The law the AG’s office wants to use has never been used that
Read More...A new so-called “study” published in the journal Science of The Total Environment claims it has uncovered a link between fracking chemicals in farm water and a rare birth defect in horses. The researchers say this study “could” serve as a warning about fracking and human infant health. Is this it? Were we wrong for
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Joe Biden is in a political vise; squeezed by radical greens on the one side and labor on the other. He can’t win Pennsylvania without the latter, though. Joe Biden will be the Democrat nominee for President this year, but can he win Pennsylvania in November? That’s unclear.
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Natural gas has reduced emissions on every score, including CO2 emissions, a fact the Church of Climate should love but it’s an anti-gas cult so… The “Church of Climate” is a wonderful term. Nick Delullis is the president and CEO of CNX Resources Corporation. I wrote about him
Read More...Yesterday the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 790, a bill that restores sanity to regulations for conventional oil and gas drillers in the Keystone State. For years PA’s small, independent conventional oil and gas drillers have objected to the one-size-fits-all regulations concocted by the Gov. Tom Wolf Administration that applies the same regulations
Read More...EQT announced yesterday it has closed on a deal to sell “certain non-strategic assets” to Diversified Gas & Oil (DGO) for $125 million, plus another potential $20 million later on. MDN first told you about this deal on May 13 (see Diversified Buys 900 EQT Wells (67 Shale Wells) for $125M). This is the first
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … If there’s one story that irrefutably establishes the corrupt nature of Governor Andrew Cuomo, Governor Corruptocrat here at NaturalGasNOW, this is it. When I labeled Andrew Cuomo as Governor Corruptocrat on these pages, some readers cheered. Others winced. I’ve stuck with it because I know it to be
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … [The Endless Mountains Health System (known simply as EMHS locally) is unique in that it also operates a food bank with a little help from its friends.] Endless Mountains Health Systems (EMHS) joined a growing number of organizations in Susquehanna County, in July 2019, to help curb food
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