Heinz Endowments Launches Another Fake ‘Report’ Bashing the M-U
For the past week or so we’ve spotted stories in the Democrat press (i.e. mainstream news) about a so-called “research report” issued by a front organization for the Heinz Endowments called the Ohio River Valley Institute (ORVI). The ORVI recently released a report that purports to show the fracking miracle in the Marcellus/Utica hasn’t actually created all that many jobs or economic benefits. Here’s the first tip this report is a scam and a sham: The lead researcher from the so-called ORVI doesn’t live in the Ohio River Valley nor anywhere near the M-U, he’s a playwright who lives thousands of miles away on the Left Coast, in Washington State. In other words, the report is fiction.
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Food & Water Watch, the virulent, leftist anti-fossil fuel group, will get its day in court today in the organization’s bid to block a tiny 2.1-mile pipeline looping project in western Massachusetts. But lest you think the lawsuit being argued today before the liberal D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is just about a small pipe project in liberal Massachusetts, think again. FWW is attempting to use this case to shut down all future pipeline projects too. Is the fix in with this case?
Yesterday we told you that natural gas spot (i.e. cash) prices at various pipeline trading hubs had hit fresh, one-year highs, including here in the Marcellus/Utica (see 
Over the past several weeks the Enverus U.S. rig count had rocketed skyward, making gains of more than a dozen rigs added each week. Over the past week that torrid pace slowed. In the past seven days, the active rig count added just one new rig to the national total. The Marcellus lost two rigs, one each in the dry gas northeast and wet gas southwest. The Utica gained one rig, for a net loss of -1 in the M-U region (now at 42 active rigs).
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Moody and Associates is yet another Marcellus shale success story; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Gas processing build-out continues in Permian’s Delaware basin; NATIONAL: Cheniere asks to put Corpus Christi LNG train 3 in service; EIA’s AEO2021 shows U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions rising after the mid-2030s; Chesapeake Energy emerges from bankruptcy, with a return to its roots in natural gas; Despite Covid-19, US oil and natural gas exports hitting record levels; Alternative debt universe for oil and gas; A startup using a new tech to make hydrogen extracts cash from Bill Gates’ climate tech fund; INTERNATIONAL: Qatar ramps up pressure on U.S. LNG producers with major expansion.