Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Andy Dinniman is a big fellow and, appropriately enough, he has failed bigly in Commonwealth Court as a panel of judges has ruled he never even had standing. Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court today reversed a June 2018 order by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission that resulted from a taxpayer-funded
Read More...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 methane emissions, offshore drilling, New York gas moratorium and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH
Read More...Now the City of Buffalo is suffering from Cuomo’s anti-fossil fuel fervor, as a recent Vanity Fair article highlights a $750 million state subsidy Elon Musk’s SolarCity received to open a plant there. And state taxpayers are paying the price. “For $750 million, we’re getting jobs that pay $2 an hour more than Aldi’s,” the story quotes
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Brooklyn, New York is apparently growing a new type of voter without the slightest clue how energy is made or delivered and politicians enable the ignorance. Subsequent to my post yesterday about New York politicians running on empty through bad neighborhoods, a friend sent me a Brooklyn story revealing
Read More...The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently determined New York waived its water quality authority for Williams’ Constitution Pipeline, according to S&P Global Platts. The decision gives new life to the project, which stalled in April 2016 when state regulators denied a permit. The FERC reversed its earlier finding — that the New York review could
Read More...In October 2016, Dominion announced a new pipeline project called Eastern Market Access Project (see Dominion Announces $145M Project to Expand Gas Supply to DC & MD). The $145 million project was slated to beef up two compressor stations in Virginia, build a new compressor station in Maryland, and add a couple of pipeline taps
Read More...Sunoco Pipeline, a division/part of Energy Transfer, has just been fined (again) for work related to the construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline project. This time around Sunoco got two fines: One for problems with their work in 2018, to the tune of $240,840, and one for work done back in 2017, to the
Read More...Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia Garland Thompson tells us not to be distracted by pipeline blockades in the politically correct Northeast because shale gas is headed south in a big way. News that a U.S. court upheld Maryland’s refusal to permit a planned 3.5-mile gas pipeline to cross state land to reach West
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … New York politicians, still imagining they’re living out their energy fantasies, are refusing to accept facts, as if running on empty through a bad neighborhood. How much self-deception can one practice before submitting to the truth? An infinite amount if New York politicians are any gauge. National Grid and
Read More...Sunoco has been issued two penalties from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for violations that occurred during the construction of the Mariner East Pipeline, which runs through the southern portion of the state, according to 69 News. Sunoco was fined more than $313,000 for alleged violations in 2017 and 2018. The DEP said the
Read More...Credit: Erie Times-News (click for larger version) The Risberg Line, a 60-mile pipeline from Crawford County, PA to Erie County, PA, and from there across the border into Ashtabula County, OH, began construction in February (see Construction Begins on “Massive” PA to OH Risberg Pipeline). As the project nears completion, Ashtabula is already seeing the
Read More...In what we would say is an unusual, very public rebuke of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the former chairperson of the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Utilities says that Cuomo is to blame for a near-emergency situation in New England during the winter of 2017/2018 when the region was within two days of a massive
Read More...Enterprise Products Partners has started gauging shipper interest in a proposed 50,000 b/d expansion of its ATEX ethane pipeline, according to S&P Global Platts. The proposed expansion would move more materials from the Appalachian Basin to the company’s NGLs storage complex in Mont Belvieu, Texas. Enterprise has been looking to boost deliveries of oil, gas, and
Read More...The Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline has run into another problem, being cited for “unsafe construction practices at work sites” by the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, according to Kallanish Energy. According to the PHMSA, the company failed to follow written specifications or standards in ditching and laying pipe. Dominion Energy Transmission has
Read More...The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just given Equitrans’ Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project a huge thumbs up and assist by approving permit changes made by West Virginia that will allow MVP to restart work in crossing hundreds of streams and rivers in the state. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
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