DRBC Deputy Executive Director Kristen Bowman Kavanagh, P.E. In 1961, the federal government and the governments of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York made a huge mistake. They entered into an agreement that created the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC). The DRBC has the independent legal authority to oversee and manage the Delaware River…
Read More...Environmental Justice for Whom? Pennsylvania Goes PC! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. [Editor’s Note: Environmental justice is a completely phony concept that does precisely nothing for the intended beneficiaries and, in fact, only makes it harder to help them.] Government is nothing if not faddish; that is to say vulnerable to those
Read More...Coterra Energy, along with several other companies active in the northeast Marcellus Shale, recently went on a shopping spree to… Continue reading The post Coterra Spends $20,000 on Christmas Gifts for Kids in NE Pa. first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...DRBC Ban 3rd Circuit Opinion An Injustice, But Not the End! Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: An urban biased panel of 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals judges has delivered nothing but injustice for Wayne County landowners but it’s not the end of the story.] In a brilliant
Read More...Camp Freedom Gets Natural Gas and Help from the Industry tural Gas and Help from the Industry gas news Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Coterra Energy Host, Shale Gas News … … [Editor’s Note: Camp Freedom, a respite site in Wayne County, Pennsylvania for veterans, first responders and Gold Star families is getting natural gas
Read More...The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), a quasi-governmental organization composed of four states (NY, PA, DE, NJ) plus the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, voted yesterday to permanently ban fracking within the boundaries of the DRBC’s jurisdiction, which includes Wayne and Pike counties in Pennsylvania where there is abundant Marcellus Shale deposits. But don’t despair.
Read More...Remember the statement, uttered by then-candidate Joe Biden as he stood in Bucks County, PA (which sits in the Delaware River Basin) when he emphatically promised PA residents and union workers, “I’m not banning fracking in Pennsylvania or anywhere else!”? It took him slightly less than five weeks to break that promise. Yesterday the Biden
Read More...In January MDN told you that after five loooong years, a federal judge in Scranton, PA had finally ruled the Wayne Land and Mineral Group (WLMG) v. Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) lawsuit will go to trial this year (see Judge Rules Wayne Landowner Lawsuit re DRBC Frack Ban Continues). We’ve since learned the trial
Read More...In a brilliant move aimed at boxing in the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), two northeastern Pennsylvania State Senators–Gene Yaw and Lisa Baker–along with members of the PA Senate Republican Caucus, filed a lawsuit yesterday against the DRBC, accusing the quasi-governmental agency of “taking” the property rights of PA residents without just compensation under the
Read More...Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, arguably PA’s worst governor in a generation, has just thrown in his lot with uber-leftists Andrew Cuomo (governor of NY), Phil Murphy (governor of NJ), and John Carney (governor of DE) to support a total, permanent ban on fracking *and a ban on any drilling-related activities* in the Delaware River Basin
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