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Massachusetts Antis Want Eversource to Block New Gas for Customers

There is no explaining lunatics like those belonging to the Columbia Gas Resistance Campaign in Springfield, Massachusetts who seek to block new and expanded delivery of natural gas to its customers. Following the disaster in September 2018 from a series of explosions that occurred in Columbia Gas’ local delivery pipelines north of Boston (see Local NatGas Pipes Explode Near Boston Killing 1, Injuring 25), Columbia was forced to sell its Massachusetts natural gas-delivery franchise to Eversource, a competitor (see Columbia Selling Mass. Gas Utility Biz to Competitor Eversource).
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DOE Approves Cove Point, Six Other Plants to Export LNG Thru 2050

Last week the U.S. Dept. of Energy announced it has extended the terms of seven long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) export authorizations through 2050. One of the facilities receiving an extension is the Cove Point LNG export facility in Maryland, a facility that exports 100% Marcellus molecules.
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Marcellus/Utica LNG Heading to Barbuda, West Indies?

Barbuda Ocean Club (click for larger version)

Eagle LNG Partners built and maintains a smallish LNG facility in Maxville, Florida (suburb of Jacksonville). Since early 2018, Eagle LNG has loaded hundreds of ISO and trailers loads from their Maxville LNG facility for Crowley Maritime and other customers (see Eagle LNG Celebrates 100th LNG Bunkering at Port of Jacksonville). Eagle is spreading its wings. Earlier this week the company announced it has entered into a long-term agreement to provide a turn-key U.S. natural gas solution for the Barbuda Ocean Club in Barbuda, West Indies.
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“Green LNG” – The Latest Carbon Tax Scam

There is another new scam being perpetrated on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector. It’s called “green LNG.” Supposedly pimple-faced millennial investors are demanding the companies they invest in (with some $110 trillion worth of money) clean up their carbon dioxide emissions or the spoiled kids will refuse to invest. Some LNG companies are going to extraordinary lengths to prove their green worthiness to these idiots.
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Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Oct 29, 2020

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Oil & Gas Industry is invited to attend this Saturday’s TRUMP RALLY!; Virtual town hall on America’s energy future this Friday; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Texas added 700 oil extraction jobs in September, first uptick since the pandemic started; NATIONAL: TC Energy awards more than $1.6 billion in American Contracts to build Keystone XL; Can Liberty Oil maverick’s corporate culture survive the U.S. shale bust?; Enterprise pipeline CEO projects oil price climb in late 2021; Biden’s painful transition from oil and gas; States that will decide the 2020 election are reliant on an industry Joe Biden has vowed to eliminate; Democrats’ energy dilemma; INTERNATIONAL: US boosts energy infrastructure push in Vietnam with raft of LNG-to-power deals; US LNG developers eye shorter contracts to lure India buyers: energy secretary; Europe moves toward requiring low-methane natural gas; Chinese energy company, U.S. oil & gas affiliate and Chinese national indicted for theft of trade secrets.
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