All 97 miles of imported steel pipeline that will be used to construct Shell’s Falcon ethane pipeline project was offloaded at a Philadelphia port last month (10,996 pipes!), and is now loaded on trucks and on the way to the Pittsburgh region (some may have already arrived).
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A lawsuit that began life a year ago, in March 2018, has finally been settled between suburbanite landowners near Philadelphia and Sunoco Logistics Partners over construction activities related to the Mariner East 2 (ME2) Pipeline project.
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Pennsylvania House Bill (HB) 827, which would make a permanent frack ban by the Delaware River Basin Commission (if adopted) a government “taking” or seizure of a citizens’ property liable for compensation, passed the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee yesterday with a bipartisan vote of 16-9.
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Another $3 million in taxpayer-funded grants have just been handed out to three different local pipeline projects under Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Investment Program, or PIPE. Two of the projects are in northeastern PA, and the other in the Lehigh Valley area.
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Last Thursday, March 21st at 9:22 pm, Dominion Energy’s Cove Point LNG export facility along the shoreline of Maryland experienced a brief “flaring event” due to an issue with “a plant monitor.” The flare burned off excess gases and was contained and everything worked as it should have.
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Utility giant National Grid has officially begun to caution (promise? warn? threaten?) “dozens of midsize companies” in New York City now applying to become new natural gas customers they may not be able to hook up for natgas–unless Williams’ Northeast Supply Enhancement Project (NESE) is approved in a *timely* fashion. Promise made, promise kept.
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In October 2016, Indeck Energy announced a plan to build a $1 billion electric generating plant (powered by natural gas) in Niles, Michigan, not far from Chicago (see $1B Electric Plant Planned Near Chicago, M-U Connection?). In February 2018, Indeck said construction would begin in summer 2018 (see Indeck to Start Building $1B Gas-Powered Electric Plant in Michigan). Never happened.
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MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Gas pipeline would ‘rip up the clam beds’ in N.J. for New Yorkers’ sake, foes say; PUCO approves plan to bring natural gas to Belpre; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Chevron, Exxon take turns wooing investors with shale boasts; Dominion offering early retirements after merger with S.C. utility; NATIONAL: Republicans defeat Green New Deal in U.S. Senate vote; Potential for risk and reward for U.S. LNG exporters; What it takes for an LNG export project to reach FID; Gassing up.
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