Mountain Valley Pipe Date Delayed to 2H21, Cost Rises to $6B

Equitrans Midstream, the lead partner and builder of the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project, announced yesterday it has (once again) pushed back the in-service date for the pipeline, from 1Q21 to the second half of 2021 (meaning by December), and pushed up the cost of the project, from $5.4 billion to as high as

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TGP Fined $800K in Massachusetts for Pipe Project Done Years Ago

Mass. AG Maura Healey Corrupt Massachusetts Attorney General, Maura Healey, is forcing Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) to pay the state $800,000 for alleged violations of environmental laws that happened three years ago while building a couple of miles of pipeline through a state forest. The “damage” was done in 2017. Does Healey have nothing better

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Pa. DEP finalizes settlements with EQM for violations at pipeline sites

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has finalized the last of three settlements with EQM Gathering OPCO, LLC, assessing civil penalties totaling $427,650 for violations at pipeline sites, according to Farm and Dairy. The DEP entered into a consent order and agreement with EQM for violations that occurred from 2016 through 2019 during construction of

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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Runs Cove Point LNG!

In July, when Dominion Energy announced it had decided to exit the natural gas pipeline business by selling it to Warren Buffett and cancel the much-needed Atlantic Coast Pipeline project, the company said it would retain a 50% ownership in its Cove Point LNG export facility and sell a 25% interest to Buffett’s company (see

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Weymouth, MA Drops Opposition to Compressor in Return for $38M

“It’s dangerous! It’s a killer! It will flow evil, nasty fracked gas! It’ll explode and kill everyone within a mile, and if it doesn’t explode, emissions from the plant will poison everyone around it anyway!” Those are the faux arguments used by radicals in Weymouth, Massachusetts to smear a compressor station built by Enbridge. All

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NJ Water Agency Approves TGP NatGas Compressor Stn to Help NYC

The New Jersey Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council (“Highlands Council”) is a regional planning agency that works in partnership with municipalities and counties in the Highlands Region to help them implement the state’s 2004 Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act (the Highlands Act). The Highlands Council has just given its blessing for a Tennesee

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DEP Trashes ET for Following the Direction It Provided!

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

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Shale Gas News – October 31, 2020

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about a methanol plant, Diversified Oil & Gas, Gulfport Energy and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to

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EQT in talks to sell some or all of its MVP capacity

EQT is in discussions with up to five different unnamed parties to sell some or all of its contracted capacity in the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline that is expected to begin service next year, according to Kallanish Energy. EQT CFO David Khani made the announcement last week in an earnings call with analysts and the

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – October 31, 2020

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

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Massachusetts Antis Want Eversource to Block New Gas for Customers

There is no explaining lunatics like those belonging to the Columbia Gas Resistance Campaign in Springfield, Massachusetts who seek to block new and expanded delivery of natural gas to its customers. Following the disaster in September 2018 from a series of explosions that occurred in Columbia Gas’ local delivery pipelines north of Boston (see Local

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NYSEG Leads Lansing Into A Cold and Dark Never Never Land

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Lansing is the dying part of Planet Ithaca where no one can get the natural gas they need thanks to NYSEG and pipeline opponents. What is happening in Lansing, NY is absolute insanity possible only in the political correct worlds of places such New York and, especially Planet

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Snitz Creek Spill of Harmless Bentonite Sends DEP Into Silly Snit

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

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Shale Gas News – October 24, 2020

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about natural gas-fired generators, Joe Biden, Cabot production and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport

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CNX Is Definitely on the Move and Ready to Make Serious Hay

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

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