Susquehanna County

Fracking Is Delivering Everything Good It Promised and Much More for PA

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … An opinion piece in LehighValleyLive.com illustrates the shallowness of so much we see written about fracking by folks who don’t research. An opinion piece in LehighValleyLive.com last week, written by Dan Gordon, a Washington, D.C. writer on the subjects of “affordable housing, urban planning and industrial supply sectors”

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Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Dec 14-18

Last week Pennsylvania issued 25 new shale well drilling permits in both northeast and southwest PA, although most of the permits for SWPA. Ohio issued 4 new shale well permits, all of them to the same company (Encino Energy) and the same well pad (in Harrison County). West Virginia issued 6 new shale well permits,

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Impact Fees Help Keep the Roofs Over the Heads of Residents

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Marcellus Shale impact fees help homebuyers with much needed upgrades and repairs, assuring they will be able to keep roofs over their heads. In 2020, the Commonwealth made nearly $46 million in Pennsylvania Housing Affordability and Rehabilitation Enhancement (PHARE) funding available for housing programs. The PHARE fund was

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Tall Pines Forest of Lights Lifts Spirits in A Dark Year

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor’s Note: Tall Pines Players Club in Friendsville creates a Forest of Lights for the Christmas season with a little help from Cabot ticket purchases.] The Tall Pines Forest of Lights is back by popular demand! After becoming one of the leading holiday attractions in Susquehanna

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Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Nov. 23-27

Last week Pennsylvania issued 12 new shale well drilling permits with a mix of permits issued in both the southwest (wet gas) and northeast (dry gas) regions of the state. Ohio issued 7 new permits, all of them except one in the same county (Jefferson). West Virginia was a goose egg–no new permits issued last

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Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Nov. 16-20

Last week Pennsylvania issued 11 new shale well drilling permits, all but one of them in the northeastern (dry gas) part of the state. Ohio issued one new permit, and West Virginia issued 2 new shale well permits.This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Restrooms, Fresh Water and Economic Opportunities

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Opportunities abound in the shale region, including the providing of such critically important services as portable restrooms in the field. The majority of activities involved with the natural gas industry occur outdoors. This means that access to modern conveniences for those who work the rigs and lay

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Cabot O&G 3Q: 2.4 Bcf/d, Drilled 13 Wells, Upper Marcellus Coming

Dan Dinges, CEO of Cabot Oil & Gas, said last week: “2020 has proven to be the most challenging year for natural gas prices in the last 25 years, resulting from a multi-year trend of overcapitalization of both oil and natural gas assets across our industry.” Indeed. The company released its third-quarter 2020 update on

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Natural Gas Benefits Are Huge for Shale Region Communities

Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … .. Natural gas benefits to shale region communities all across Pennsylvania are simply huge. That was the message heard at Think About Energy. Improvements in education, quality of life, and community resilience were common threads in a virtual Think About Energy discussion facilitated by Cabot external affairs director George Stark

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Resource Environmental Management: An Idea, A Company, A Service

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Resource Environmental Management is a service company, yet another that has achieved much success serving the natural gas industry. When Dawn and Jerry Washo decided to return to Pennsylvania from St. Louis, Missouri to raise their family, Montrose in Susquehanna County appealed to them. The small-town

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Hardworking Father and Son Make a Career at Cabot Oil & Gas

George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. A Cabot Oil & Gas career opportunity and the love of nature moved the Cordovas family to Susquehanna County. Alejandro Cordova got his early education in Mexico, and moved to Brooklyn, NY, where he started a family and found work in construction. The experience that he

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Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Sep 14-18

Last week Ohio finally broke the drought of not issuing permits for new shale wells in the Buckeye State. Finally! Last week Pennsylvania issued 13 new permits for wells on three well pads. Ohio issued 4 new permits for wells on two well pads. And West Virginia issued 1 new permit.This post appeared first on

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – September 19, 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. Germany Just Can’t seem to Get It Right It seems Vladimir Putin keeps poisoning people but, as Dan Markind points out

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Northeast PA Landowner Settles with Williams for Big Bucks

In 2016 MDN told you about the Holleran family who didn’t want the much-needed Constitution Pipeline to cross their land in Susquehanna County, PA (see Maple Syrup Farm in Path of PA Pipeline, Antis Make Most of It). Hollywood actor James Cromwell and other anti-drillers heard about it and visited to add their shrill voices

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