Courts Treat PennEast Fairly: PovertyKeeper Freaks Out

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) PennEast Pipeline is working its way through the usual morass of enviro lawsuits and the courts are treating it fairly, which is annoying the PovertyKeeper. It’s hard to keep track of the multiple lawsuits filed against every single new natural gas pipeline project in the Marcellus/Utica. But we try!

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Energize PA Seeks to Build on Pennsylvania’s Natural Gas Abundance

Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … Energize PA is a proposal to move the Commonwealth to still higher ground in the competition for life-fulfilling jobs and truly sustainable communities. Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association, the Northeast PA Manufacturers & Employers Association and the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce

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Shale Gas News – October 5, 2019

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about property taxes, National Grid, Wolf’s climate plan and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH station!

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Penn Future and Friends Launch Political Attack on Southeast PA Reps

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW        A “strategic ally” of Penn Future, supported by two private foundations, has launched a dirty political attack on six Southeast Pennsylvania lawmakers. Conservation Voters of PA just engaged in some very dirty politics, targeting six Republican lawmakers in Southeast PA, who they want to replace with Democrats, with a

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – October 5, 2019

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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. Disingenuous Daylin Leach Proposes PA Fracking Ban I’ve met Senator Pennsylvania Senator Daylin Leach. Indeed, I have testified

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Riverkeeper Frustrated as D.C. Circuit Stops PennEast Pipe Lawsuit

It’s hard to keep track of the multiple lawsuits filed against every single new natural gas pipeline project in the Marcellus/Utica. But we try! Take the PennEast Pipeline, for example. PennEast is a $1 billion (or $1.2 billion, depending on the source) new greenfield pipeline project from Luzerne County, PA to Mercer County, NJ. PennEast

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The Millennial War: Green and Red vs. Civil Society

Aaron PriceDirector of Gas Odyssey and Silent No More … … Aaron Price reflects on Russian history applied to the Green New Deal, with a poem about a future Millennial War where Green ideology destroys civil society. Editor’s Note: Our friend Aaron Price, creator of Gas Odyssey, from Windsor, New York, has written another poem

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Enbridge Zeros in on Cause of Kentucky TETCO Pipe Explosion

On August 1, Enbridge’s Texas Eastern Pipeline Company (TETCO) pipeline exploded in Lincoln County, Kentucky–killing one and sending six to the hospital (see TETCO Pipe Explodes in Kentucky Killing 1; Southbound M-U Gas Stops). Since that time one of the three TETCO pipes in the area has returned to service. The federal Pipeline and Hazardous

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Dakota Access Pipeline Vandals Indicted by Federal Grand Jury!

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW        Ruby Montoya and Jessica Reznicek have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for Dakota Access Pipeline vandalism. It’s about time the Fed gloves came off. Two years ago I wrote about these two Dakota Access Pipeline vandals, noting they were stooges for a radical group known as Rising

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NextEra to purchase Marcellus gas pipeline for $1.37B

NextEra Energy Partners has agreed to buy Meade Pipeline Co. in a deal valued at about $1.37 billion, according to Bloomberg. Meade owns a 39.2% interest in the Central Penn Line, a 185-mile pipeline that connects the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania to the mid-Atlantic and southeastern U.S. The line has the capacity to deliver 1.7

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Why Are Global Warmists So Overwrought and Susceptible to Nonsense?

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW        Global warmists have completely lost it. Their “chickens with heads cut off” routine forecloses any debate about emissions issues and, therefore, progress. The invaluable Marcellus Drilling News (do yourself a favor and subscribe now) carried an absolutely illuminating story yesterday about a puny protest that occurred this past Friday

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PA Invests $2.8M to Extend NatGas Pipeline Service in 3 Counties

Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Investment Program (or PIPE) grants cover part of the cost of building new natgas pipelines to connect homes and businesses in rural parts of the state to homegrown Marcellus Shale gas supplies. We’ve written about many of the more-than-a-dozen (so far) PIPE grant projects in the past (see our PIPE stories here). Another

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Importance of Natural Gas to Pennsylvania Economy Can’t Be Overstated

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  The Pennsylvania economy has been driven forward by natural gas development; a fact that can’t be overstated according to a Wells Fargo Securities report. It is impossible to overstate the positive role of natural gas development on the Pennsylvania economy, according to the Economics Group at Wells Fargo Securities.

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NaturalGasNOW Wants You! For Our Nation, Economy and Environment!

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  NaturalGasNOW wants your help. It takes much effort to do what we do and we want your help to get it done “for our nation, our economy and our environment.” Yes, just like Uncle Sam, we want you! We want you as a guest blogger. We want your comments.

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Pa. court says state senator can’t legally block Mariner East construction

Earlier this week, a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled Senator Andrew E. Dinniman lacks the legal standing to challenge the construction and operation of Sunoco’s contentious Mariner East pipeline system, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The court ordered the Public Utility Commission to dismiss Sen. Dinniman’s complaint, ruling lacked both personal and legislative standing to challenge

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