There’s been a lot of news coming from the UN COP28 climate event in Dubai. In some respects, we feel like it’s a firehose of news about leftists targeting fossil energy (even though the event is being hosted by the CEO of a fossil fuel company). COP28 runs from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, so…
Read More...Shell’s mighty ethane cracker plant in Monaca (Beaver County), PA, has been shut down for “weeks” in order to conduct maintenance on the plant. The cracker plant, according to the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP), has been down since October and is just now restarting. By our math, it was down for the entire…
Read More...Explosive news from the Pittsburgh Business Times about the ill-fated plan by Pennsylvania to try and attract one of 6-10 regional hydrogen hubs to the state. As we told you yesterday, according to Reuters, PA’s application to score a government grant for a hydrogen hub, called the Decarbonization Network of Appalachia (DNA H2Hub), was passed…
Read More...Duck Hunting: The Sport Oil and Gas Has Help Build Jason Spiess IHost of The Crude Life, “Everyday Energy For Everyday People” Multi-Media Journalist … [Editor’s Note: Jason Spiess, host of The Crude Life and ESG University, tells the story of duck hunting today, an outdoor sport not possible without oil and natural gas.]
Read More...Last Friday, MDN told you about a new Cambridge University study published in the journal Science exposing the sale of carbon credits as a scam (see Cambridge Study Finds Carbon Offsets Using Trees is a Scam). Now that the carbon credit scam has been exposed, big companies like Shell, Nestle, and Gucci are exiting the…
Read More...Newly-elected Gov. Josh Shapiro, who appears to be completely ineffective since taking office (which is not necessarily a bad thing), appointed a working group in April to help guide him on what he should do concerning the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax and the broader issue of global warming (see PA Gov Appoints…
Read More...In July, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that it had appointed a 17-member committee to figure out how to dole out $5 million to fund local community projects located near the Shell cracker plant in Beaver County, PA, following a $10 million fine against the plant for violating air emissions standards (see…
Read More...Although Shell maintains flaring and accidental emissions from its new multi-billion-dollar ethane cracker in Beaver County, PA, have not violated state and federal air standards, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) says they have–on numerous occasions. Shell didn’t argue the point, and in May, the company agreed to pay nearly $10 million in fines…
Read More...Although Shell maintains flaring and accidental emissions from its new multi-billion-dollar ethane cracker in Beaver County, PA, have not violated state and federal air standards, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) says they have–on numerous occasions. Shell didn’t argue the point, and in May, the company agreed to pay nearly $10 million in fines…
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 around 30-40 environmental activists (anti-fossil fuelers), along with a handful of local residents, rallied in Beaver, PA, before showing up for the Beaver County Commission regular meeting. The protesters, who want the Shell ethane cracker plant shut down, vented their concerns about the plant to county commissioners. The three county commissioners listened while antis
Read More...In March, Shell said its Pennsylvania ethane cracker facility had not–using new, more accurate methods of measuring emissions–violated emissions limits… Continue reading The post Shell Cracker Agrees to $10M Shakedown from PA, Restarting Now first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, PA (near Pittsburgh) has experienced a number of problems over the past… Continue reading The post Shell PA Cracker Plant Remains Shut Down for “Few Weeks” at Least first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Yesterday two radicalized Big Green groups–the Environmental Integrity Project (based in D.C.) and the Clean Air Council (based in Philadelphia)–filed… Continue reading The post Radical Antis File Lawsuit Aiming to Shut Down Shell PA Cracker first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, PA (near Pittsburgh) has experienced a number of problems over the past… Continue reading The post Shell CEO Calls PA Cracker Plant Problems “Technical Niggles” first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
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