Last week Pennsylvania issued 16 new shale well drilling permits, and West Virginia issued 7 new shale well permits. Ohio issued no new shale permits last week.This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. Act 66 is paving the way to long-term jobs and economic development by providing tax credits to petrochemical production facilities in Pennsylvania. Since House Bill 732 was signed into law, Pennsylvania state legislators have been meeting with labor and energy experts to figure out the details. Their focus
Read More...In August Pennsylvania hiked its permit fee to drill a new shale well to be the most expensive of any state in the country, from $5,000 to $12,500 (see Permit Fee to Drill PA Shale Well Officially Went Up 250% on Aug 1). New analysis by the non-partisan think tank Allegheny Institute for Public Policy
Read More...We’re speechless (which doesn’t happen often). The liberal, anti-shale Democrats who write and manage the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have endorsed Donald J. Trump for president! They had plenty of criticism for Trump in their lukewarm “endorsement,” but the fact they did endorse Trump is, well, big news. The Post-Gazette editors, who haven’t endorsed a Republican for
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) “ET Go Home” seems to be the message as the Pennsylvania DEP engages in shameless projection against ET to distract from its own failures. The bad blood between Energy Transfer (ET) and the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) continues. ET’s Sunoco Pipeline subsidiary is desperately trying to complete
Read More...Dan Dinges, CEO of Cabot Oil & Gas, said last week: “2020 has proven to be the most challenging year for natural gas prices in the last 25 years, resulting from a multi-year trend of overcapitalization of both oil and natural gas assets across our industry.” Indeed. The company released its third-quarter 2020 update on
Read More...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
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