It really is sad (and angering) to behold the tactics of the left. Their favorite #1 tactic is fear. If the left can convince you the end is near à la “climate change” and “ticking time bomb pipelines” and “bomb trains” and “radiation” and “water contamination” and other incendiary (false) claims about fossil energy, they…
Read More...Hope Gas, a Local Distribution Company (LDC), otherwise known as a utility company, provides gas service to approximately 112,000 residential, industrial, and commercial customers in thirty-five West Virginia counties. Hope Gas recently received approval from the Public Service Commission (PSC) of West Virginia to acquire nearly 900 miles of gathering pipelines in northern West Virginia…
Read More...Natural Gas Hand Up for Renovo Slapped Down by the Unknowing Rhonda Balchun Renovo Borough Councilwoman …. [Editor’s Note: Renovo residents have lived with natural gas for decades but a new gas-fueled, job-creating power plant was killed by those who know and care not about the town.] My name is Rhonda Balchun, and I
Read More...On Saturday, June 3, President Biden signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) of 2023, also known as the “debt ceiling” bill, into law. Part of the new law is a provision that forces government agencies (on every level) to finish granting any outstanding permits to the long-stalled, 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. The new…
Read More...Northern Access Pipeline Needs to Stop Placing Games with NY Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: The Northern Access Pipeline has been playing games with a deceitful New York State government for far too long. It’s time to play hardball by going above it.] National Fuel Gas Company
Read More...National Fuel Gas Company (NFG) and its pipeline subsidiary Empire Pipeline have worked on a plan to build the Northern Access Pipeline since 2016. Northern Access is a 97-mile project from McKean County in Pennsylvania into and through Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Erie counties in New York that will flow Marcellus gas into New York State….
Read More...Earlier this week, the J.P. Morgan Energy, Power and Renewables Conference was held in New York City. The event featured a number of oil and gas luminaries. Among the speakers was Alan Armstrong, CEO of pipeline giant Williams, which owns and operates the Transco Pipeline system. Williams also built and operates an extensive gathering system…
Read More...In late December, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) voted to grant permission to New Jersey Natural Gas (NJNG) to build a pipeline regulator station in Holmdel, NJ. What does a regulator station do? It reduces pressure on the underground natural gas pipelines that already exist in the area, running underneath the ground…
Read More...Early last week, we published a post about the possibility that Equitrans would revive its moribund project to build the 75-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) Southgate project from the current MVP terminus in Pittsylvania County, VA, to Alamance County, NC (see MVP Completion in 2023 Gives New Hope for MVP Southgate in NC). We told
Read More...In late December 2022, piping at the MarkWest Imperial Compressor Station in Robinson Township, Washington County, PA, froze during Winter Storm Elliot. The frozen line burst, spilling roughly 10,000 gallons of condensate on the ground. On May 23, 2023, MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources LLC submitted a Notice of Intent (NOI) to the Pennsylvania Dept.
Read More...We’ve called attention to this for years now: The Marcellus/Utica, THE largest producing play in the U.S., is now stalled with respect to increasing production of natural gas. Why? Because we can’t build and complete any major new pipelines. Without more pipelines, the M-U is limited in how much it can produce. The situation is
Read More...On June 8, the West Virginia Dept. of Environmental Protection issued a renewed Section 401 water quality certification for the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. In a court filing by MVP that shoves the news in the faces of the corrupt Democrat three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit,
Read More...It took an Act of Congress, but the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), which stretches from Wetzel County, WV, to Pittsylvania County, VA, will be, according to the builder and primary owner, Equitrans, completed and online by the end of this year (see Equitrans Announces Mountain Valley Pipe to Get Completed in 2023). Equitrans had
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – June 10, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone 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. This week: New England Solar Dream Goes Up in Smoke, Energy Reality Strikes Again and Why
Read More...Yesterday a group of paid activists and climate zealots showed up at the White House to protest the debt ceiling bill provision that forces the completion of the 94%, very safe, Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. In what has to be one of the saddest things we’ve seen coming from the leftwing nutmob, one parent
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