Ohio Issues First Permits to Drill Under Wayne National Forest
This is a momentous occasion, nearly 13 years in the making. The Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR) issued permits on June 28 to drill two Utica Shale wells in Monroe County. Both wells begin on privately owned land, but then travel under sections of Wayne National Forest (WNF). As near as we can tell, these are the first two such wells to pass under WNF land. Below we tell you exactly where they’re located, and which company received the permits to drill them.
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Columbia Transmission is on a mission to flow more Marcellus/Utica gas south–all the way to the Gulf Coast in Louisiana. Earlier this week Columbia filed a new application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to build the Louisiana XPress Project, a project to beef up flows along the existing Columbia pipeline system by an additional 850 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) by adding and expanding several compressor stations in Louisiana. Most, if not all of the M-U gas that will flow through it, is heading to Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass LNG export facility in Lake Charles.
Kinder Morgan (KM), perhaps the largest pipeline company in the United States, was first out of the chute yesterday with a financial and operational update for the second quarter. While KM maintains a number of pipelines in the northeast, primarily the Tennessee Gas Pipeline, our main focus in reviewing yesterday’s update is for new information about the long-delayed Elba Island LNG export facility along the coast of Georgia. Elba Island will export Marcellus/Utica molecules.
A small cabal of 18 leftist Virginia state legislators sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulator Commission (FERC) last week trash talking the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) proposed by Dominion Energy. The odious Sierra Club “applauds these legislators for standing up to polluting corporations like Dominion Energy that are putting their profits over people.” Same old tripe the Clubbers always peddle. What the Sierra Club doesn’t tell you is that there are 140 Virginia legislators, meaning 122 legislators either support, or certainly don’t oppose, ACP. Translation: The vast majority of Virginia residents and their representatives are in favor of ACP.
Here’s a major scientific study that’s being suppressed and ignored by mainstream “news” (i.e. propaganda) outlets: A recently published study by Finnish researchers finds that human activity, specifically burning fossil fuels for energy, doesn’t even move the needle on global average temperatures. They point out a major flaw in climate modeling used by “mainstream” alarmists–in how they use a computer model that overestimates warming by a factor of 10.
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Marcellus Shale R&D test site continues advancements with NETL support; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Kinder Morgan receives FERC approval for Gulf LNG export project; Natural gas merely a ‘byproduct’ for producers in US shale oil plays; NATIONAL: Natural gas leads clean electricity production; How rising baseload demand for gas is reshaping seasonal patterns; Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff admits the Green New Deal is not about the climate.