3rd Circuit Court Grants NJ Request to Pause PennEast Pipe
Last December a federal judge in New Jersey upheld eminent domain power for PennEast Pipeline for ALL of NJ, where there are 136 holdout landowners who have refused to allow PennEast surveyors on their property (see Federal Court in NJ Grants PennEast Pipeline Eminent Domain). However, PennEast still isn’t totally out of the woods. The State of NJ appealed the decision because some of the land PennEast wants to build across belongs to the state (see NJ’s Dem AG Lectures Fed Judge re PennEast Eminent Domain).
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The company we call MarkWest Energy is technically MPLX, renamed after MarkWest was bought out and merged into Marathon Petroleum in December 2015 (see 
Yesterday IHS Markit released a study commissioned by Shale Crescent USA and JobsOhio that finds natural gas produced in the tri-state region of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia will be 45% of the nation’s production by 2040, up from 31% this year. This is truly big news with lots of ramifications.
Anti-fossil fuelers really have no shame. We recently spotted an article that purports to lay out the case, chapter and verse, for how “frackers” are engaging in “accounting shenanigans” covering up true reserve estimates and depreciation expenses. In other words, they’re cooking the books, lying to investors. And ultimately America’s fracking boom as been “a bust.” Nonsense.
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Oil majors rush to dominate U.S. shale as independents scale back; No link between Barnett Shale natural gas production and methane in groundwater, studies conclude; Fractionation constraints limit ethane supply as demand rises; SE Texas sitting pretty as nat gas booms; LNG industry eyes natural gas being flared in the Permian Basin; NATIONAL: Florida Congressman champion “Small Scale LNG Access Act”; EPA & Army Corps request voluntary dismissal of their WOTUS-related appeal.