In the beginning there was #ExxonKnew. Then there was #ShellKnew. And now we’ve just learned that #UtilitiesKnew, too. The anti-fossil fuel Energy and Policy Institute is out this week with a new report accusing electric utilities of knowing about climate change for decades, while somehow covering it up. Are we the only ones who have…
In a report released today, the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) predicts that expanded shale production in Texas’ Permian Basin and new discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico will push U.S. crude oil production to unprecedented levels next year. The EIA’s July Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO) forecasts average production of 9.3 million barrels per…
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s (CELDF) tactics continue to play out a lot like the movie “Groundhog Day” in Ohio, as the anti-fracking group’s efforts to push so-called Community Bill of Rights charter amendments on communities keep failing in eerily similar fashions. Adding to a long string of defeats for CELDF in the Buckeye…
NGI’s Shale Daily has done it again. Ace reporter Jamison Cocklin has unearthed news that (so far) no one else has: Rice Energy has quietly, confidentially, hush-hush purchased all of the assets of LOLA Energy. The sale raises a lot of questions. But first, who is LOLA? No, not the show girl in Barry Manilow’s…
Rover Pipeline has had trouble with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA). The OEPA has jumped on Rover’s back and hasn’t gotten off–over spills of drilling mud and mishandling (according to OEPA) torrential rainwater that ended up in Rover trenches, which Rover pumped out, flooding local farmers’ fields (see OEPA & Rover at Odds Over…
In June the West Virginia Public Service Commission held a public hearing in Clarksburg, WV on the proposed ESC Harrison County Power Plant project (see Public Hearing Held for Harrison County, WV NatGas Electric Plant). ESC (Energy Solutions Consortium ) was founded by father and son team Andrew and Matthew Dorn, based in Buffalo, NY….
Radical anti-fossil fuelers with THE Delaware Riverkeeper and New Jersey Sierra Club, along with a mish mash of other fringe “environmental” groups, are becoming shrill in their demand that fracking be permanently banned in the Delaware River Basin. Riverkeeper, Sierra Club and other nutjob groups are this week delivering a petition they claim has over…
New York City needs more natural gas pipelines–and it needs them BAD. That’s the upshot of a newly released report from the New York Building Congress, a trade group representing some 450 other building-related trade groups with 250,000+ members. The report, titled “Electricity Outlook: Powering New York City’s Future” (full copy below) says NYC needs…
West Goshen Township, in Philadelphia suburb of Chester County, has won a short-lived, temporary victory in their efforts to stop Sunoco Logistics’ Mariner East 2 NGL pipeline in its community. Last March MDN told you about the desperate last stand taken by liberal anti-pipeliners in West Goshen (see West Goshen’s Last Stand to Stop Mariner…
Can proposed NGL storage facilities in the Marcellus/Utica benefit the environment? The answer is a resounding, YES! How? First you must understand what an NGL is, and why we have so much of it in the northeast. NGL stands for natural gas liquid. When you drill a hole in the ground to extract oil, or…
Since 2012, Pennsylvania has collected the equivalent of a severance tax from Marcellus Shale drillers via something called an impact fee. Same concept as a severance tax. You drill a well, gas comes out, you pay a tax. Except with an impact fee you pay whether or not anything comes out of the ground, meaning…
For years anti-drillers have used the word “frack” and “fracking” as a pejorative, to try and smear the oil and gas industry. The word is shortened from “hydraulic fracturing” and meant to connote a “naughty” word of similar sound. The supremely untalented Julian Lennon (son of Beatle legend John Lennon) and his stepmom, Yoko Ono,…
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By David Spigelmyer This budget season, we’ve seen encouraging signs of true leadership from some who are committed to creating new, long-term job and economic growth opportunities for the Commonwealth. Unfortunately, we’ve also heard from some lawmakers whose only “solutions” are massive, job-crushing energy tax increases. It’s time for a fresh look at the real…
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in yet another journalism fail, apparently thinks publishing emotional appeals to violence is fine if fracking is the subject. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, just published a letter on its TribLive website that will take your breath away; so outrageous are the claims made and the none too subtle…