Gregory WrightstoneGeologist and author of “Inconvenient Facts” .. … Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is trying to implement a new carbon tax by fiat, enrolling the Commonwealth in a green scam that has done nothing for climate. Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf’s executive action to impose a Cap and Trade system on carbon dioxide emissions is easily
Read More...The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) has drafted up new “technical guidance” on “radioactivity monitoring at solid waste processing and disposal facilities” specifically targeted at the shale industry. Translation: new regulations for how dumps (and drillers) monitor and report on radioactivity levels from incoming loads of drill cuttings. The DEP has posted their proposed
Read More...Did you know that building just two new compressor stations in Pennsylvania will bring the state an extra $100 million in economic activity and support 680 direct, indirect and induced jobs? We sure didn’t! Last week Williams filed a newly published study with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on the economic impact of their proposed
Read More...Credit: WITF Harrisburg (click for larger version) A small group of southeast Pennsylvania pipeline protesters drove themselves to Harrisburg on Wednesday (using fossil fuels to get there) to demand Gov. Tom Wolf put a halt to construction of the legally-permitted Mariner East 2 pipeline, and essentially shut down the operation of the entire Mariner East
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. A Mariner East protest held the other day was a phony baloney stupid leftist political trick that only got traction within the fractivist echo chamber. Pick an issue, take an empty Capitol Building, organize a couple dozen of the usual suspect serial protestors, give them preprinted signs, coordinate
Read More...The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection recently reached a settlement with CNX Gas Company, issuing a Consent Order and Agreement for well plugging violations in four southwestern Pennsylvania counties, according to Farm and Dairy. The agreement requires CNX to post a $1.48 million performance bond and provides an extended schedule for the company to plug
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … When the Guardian published a screed advancing a childhood cancer scare we weren’t told the full story about the Department of Health’s findings. Yesterday, I wrote about the Guardian‘s scandalous attempt to label Washington County as a “cancer alley.” I say scandalous because it was all husk and no
Read More...Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … The Mariner East pipeline is still being attacked by Southeast PA legislators determined to undermine this important project for the sake of political gain. A small group of mostly southeastern Pennsylvania pipeline opponents came to Harrisburg today to urge Gov. Tom Wolf to halt construction of the legally
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) ExxonMobil is looking to do a cracker in Western Pennsylvania or environs and it could be in the same vicinity as Shell’s. Pennsylvania is still rising! Leave it to ace reporter Paul Gough from the Pittsburgh Business Times to unearth some earth-shattering news–that ExxonMobil is actively looking at locations in Beaver
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The Guardian has published a piece of fake fractivist news intended to undermine the tremendous benefits the Shell cracker is bringing to Pennsylvania. The Guardian, a UK journal that has fallen on hard times and now depends on donations to survive, has published an article in its US edition
Read More...West Rockhill Twp, Bucks County West Rockhill Township in Bucks County, PA (near Philadelphia) has waged a legal battle to prevent a natural gas compressor station from being built as part of the Adelphia Gateway project, a plan to convert an old oil pipeline stretching from Northampton County, PA through Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester counties,
Read More...We have an ongoing problem. Some of the more radical protesters in the “environmentalist” movement–those who tend toward anarchy–illegally enter work sites for pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure under construction, and block the work being done in an attempt to cost companies money. Typically they chain themselves to a piece of equipment with a
Read More...Pennsylvania State Senator Daylin Leach, a Philadelphia Democrat, is proposing a constitutional amendment to ban fracking throughout the commonwealth after a recent visit to Washington County, Pa., according to KDKA 2 CBS Pittsburgh. While in Washington County, Leach toured fracking sites and met with people who live near them. Following his visit, Leach, cited cases
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Northeastern Pennsylvania students who attended the recent Think About Energy in Hazleton received an eye-opening description of gas industry opportunities. More than 120 guests were packed into the banquet room at the Valley Country Club in Sugarloaf, Luzerne County, on Oct. 2 for the Think About Energy Briefing
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW New York DEC has filed a challenge to FERC’s approval of the Constitution Pipeline. It has to read to be believed as the agency simply denies every reality. It was inevitable New York DEC would contest FERC’s approval of the Constitution Pipeline. Governor Corruptocrat tells the agency what to
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