Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. A DRBC fracking ban seems to be in the works and members, employees or colluding partners couldn’t wait to release the news. What corrupt enterprise!. It appears the rumors and my supposition were correct. The DRBC and/or its friends at the Riverkeeper, et al are leaking like a sieve…
The owners of the Constitution Pipeline have petitioned the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse a three-judge panel’s ruling in August that upholds New York environmental regulators in blocking the pipeline, SNL Energy reports. Piedmont Natural Gas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE:DUK) owns 24% of the 124 mile project. The pipeline is…
Phase 1A of the Rover Pipeline has been online for less than a week (see Big Portion of Rover Pipeline Now Up & Running – Thru Most of Ohio). As we reported on Sept. 1st, Energy Transfer planned to initially flow around 211 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of Utica/Marcellus natural gas. However, according…
US Methanol broke ground yesterday in Institute (Kanawha County), WV for its very first methanol production plant. In August 2016 MDN was the first to share the news that US Methanol is building at least two, rumored up to five, methanol plants in the Mountain State (see Rumor: US Methanol Building 5 Methanol Plants in…
Antero Resources is back in the market looking to raise more money for their Antero Midstream subsidiary. It was only April that Antero floated an initial public offering (IPO) for Antero Midstream with hopes of raising $930 million (see Antero Midstream Launches IPO – Hopes to Raise $930M). In early May, when the IPO was…
It looks like Big Green has succeeded in conflating a mole hill into a mountain in Pennsylvania. In early August, Sunoco Logistics struck a deal with with several Big Green groups to provide stricter regulation for Mariner East 2 Pipeline’s underground drilling (see Sunoco Strikes Deal with Devil, “Settles” with Anti Groups re ME2). Part…
Acting like 5-year olds who have been told not to do something, but defiantly do it anyway, several homeowners in a housing development in Delaware County who were specifically instructed not to interfere with clearing work for the Mariner East 2 Pipeline in a Philadelphia suburb. The homeowners intentionally crossed a clearly-marked line into the…
Here’s a story you won’t read in mainstream news outlets–because it doesn’t fit the media’s anti-fossil fuel narrative that all pipelines are evil, and the people installing them are either misguided, or perhaps evil too. TransCanada’s Leach XPress pipeline project involves construction of approximately 160 miles of new “greenfield” natural gas pipeline and compression facilities…
As we reported last week, a Broome County, NY judge ruled yesterday that the Town of Fenton (Binghamton area) Planning Board did not take a hard enough look at environmental and traffic issues related to their approval of NG Advantage’s plan to construct a facility in the town to compress and load natural gas onto…
FirstEnergy, based in Akron, OH, is one of the nation’s largest investor-owned electric systems, serving customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. FirstEnergy owns a variety of regulated and non-regulated power generation plants. Last November the company announced it wants to sell five power generating plants, four of them natural…
Two weeks ago the U.S. Dept. of Energy released a 187-page study called “Electricity Markets and Reliability” (full copy below). Often referred to as “the grid study,” it is the result of a directive in April by the then-new Secretary of DOE, Rick Perry, to develop a report including an assessment of the reliability and…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Is William Penn Foundation planning a DRBC frack ban?; former White House press sec. Sean Spicer to speak at Shale Insight; WV economic growth happening thx to oil and gas; Tellurian buys Haynesville shale assets; how the…
After six consecutive defeats at the ballot box, the Mahoning Count Board of Elections voted unanimously Wednesday to reject a Pennsylvania-based anti-fracking group’s seventh attempt to get a so-called “Community Bill of Rights” measure aimed at banning fracking in Youngstown on the November ballot. The election board found the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s (CELDF)…
Richard Goodwin Environmental Consultant and Engineer West Palm Beach, Florida Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing — the shale revolution — have bolstered the US economy while enhancing our foreign and military policy position. The combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing is at the heart of the shale revolution and has yielded abundant unconventional energy. It…