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Chester County DA: Using Off-Duty Police as ME2 Security a Crime

Chester County DA Tom Hogan

Here’s how the District Attorney in Chester County, Pennsylvania–Tom Hogan–spends his days: Attempting to turn off-duty policeman working as security guards for the Mariner East pipeline projects into criminals. Is this guy sick or what?
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PA DEP Official Says Oil & Gas Program Losing $800K per Month

Yesterday the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, Scott Perry, told DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council his program is losing $800,000 a month, which he desperately, desperately hopes will be fixed soon by slapping a 250% hike in permit fees on Marcellus drillers.
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Put VW Settlement $$ to Good Use – Buy NatGas Vehicles!

Remember a few years back when Volkswagen got caught cheating on emissions tests for the cars they make? Bad move. It ended up costing a number of people at VW their jobs, and costing the company $2.9 billion in a settlement with the U.S. government. That shakedown money is now being doled out state by state, and we can’t think of a better way to use the money than by investing in NGVs (natural gas vehicles).
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Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Jan 23, 2019

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: 15 permits awarded in the Utica Shale; rig count at 16; PennDOT, Lebanon Transit open CNG transit fueling station; Natural gas outage leaves hundreds without heat; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Newport, Middletown residents face a week or more without natural gas; Natural gas system expanding in Budd Lake; NATIONAL: States compete for oil and gas money, too; INTERNATIONAL: China’s 2018 LNG imports surge to record; Saudi Arabia ventures into U.S. natural gas; The future is now for LNG as derivatives trading takes off.
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