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  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Regulation | Statewide PA

    Leftist Groups Pressure Gov. Wolf to “Expand” Onerous Methane Regs

    April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

    A coalition of hard-left, Democrat groups, including the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, “Conservatives” for Responsible Stewardship, Moms Clean Air Force, Evangelical Environmental Network, and Vet Voice Foundation, are attempting to pressure Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf to make an already horrible so-called methane regulation even worse. They want Wolf to “expand” the regulation before it goes into effect. These people are consumed with man-made global warming mythology–with no objective evidence to back it up.
    Read More “Leftist Groups Pressure Gov. Wolf to “Expand” Onerous Methane Regs”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

    Philly Inquirer Goes Hard Left – PA Must “Manage Fracking Decline”

    April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

    While the Philadelphia Inquirer has at least one reliable and objective reporter working in its ranks–Andrew Maykuth–the same can’t be said for the lefties who populate the editorial board at the newspaper. Yesterday’s unsigned editorial declares that “Fracking jobs will disappear. Pennsylvania has to manage the decline.” Like he!!. The lefties on the editorial board base their brazen (and false) statements on Joe Biden’s plan to decimate the fossil fuel industry with his warmed-over Green New Deal vomit. The editorial board presumes Biden’s attempts will be successful. They will not.
    Read More “Philly Inquirer Goes Hard Left – PA Must “Manage Fracking Decline””

  • Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | PennEast Pipeline | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

    U.S. Supreme Court Hears PennEast vs. NJ Tomorrow – What’s at Stake

    April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

    Tomorrow the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments from the U.S. Solicitor General (and attorneys for FERC and PennEast Pipeline) on one side, and arguments from the State of New Jersey on the other side. The surface issue is whether or not PennEast can use a federally-delegated right of eminent domain to build a pipeline across several parcels of property NJ claims it controls (but doesn’t own). The deeper issue is whether or not the Natural Gas Act, amended by Congress in 1947, that allows eminent domain to be used by private companies when delegated by the government, will be ripped to shreds or not. The deeper issue is whether any new interstate pipelines will ever get built again.
    Read More “U.S. Supreme Court Hears PennEast vs. NJ Tomorrow – What’s at Stake”

  • Dominion Energy | Energy Services | Hydrogen | Industrywide Issues

    Dominion Energy Experiments with Adding Hydrogen to NatGas

    April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

    Dominion Energy is a huge company. Once upon a time, Dominion owned major pipeline assets throughout the Marcellus/Utica region. But in July of 2020 Dominion decided to sell their pipeline assets (and part of the Cove Point LNG export facility) to Warren Buffett for $9.7 billion (see Dominion Cancels Atlantic Coast Pipe, Sells Pipe Biz for $9.7B). These days Dominion focuses on their utility business–serving more than 7 million customers in 16 states (including parts of PA, OH, and WV) with electric and gas. Dominion is going all-in on becoming “carbon neutral” and “net zero greenhouse gas emissions”–whatever that means. The company has begun to experiment with mixing in small amounts of hydrogen (H2) with natural gas with an eye toward increasing the mix and eventually using all hydrogen instead of natural gas.
    Read More “Dominion Energy Experiments with Adding Hydrogen to NatGas”

  • Alternative Energy | Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Carbon Capture | Industrywide Issues

    Biden Gives $109M to Research How to End Use of Coal, Oil & Gas

    April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

    We’re kind of speechless and dumbfounded–but perhaps we shouldn’t be. Last week President Biden announced a new program to be funded with $109.5 million aimed at figuring out how to convince fossil fuel workers to be happy taking a huge pay cut and installing solar panels and windmills instead of making far more money in a far more meaningful job working in fossil fuels. Brian Anderson, director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), headquartered in Pittsburgh, will lead the effort. How enormously sad that Anderson, someone we greatly admire, is out in front selling Biden’s bill of goods–the end of fossil energy.
    Read More “Biden Gives $109M to Research How to End Use of Coal, Oil & Gas”

  • Alternative Energy | Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues

    O&G Drilling vs. Renewables Strip Mining – Which Hurts Planet More?

    April 27, 2021April 27, 2021
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    From our earliest days of writing about the shale energy industry, we heard the phrase “every form of energy has its advantages and disadvantages.” We could not agree more. That includes so-called renewable energy. Did you know that it takes strip mining half a million pounds of dirt to get enough minerals to manufacture a 1,000-pound battery used in a single electric car? Right now almost all (90%) of that strip mining happens in other countries, like China and Russia. If we want to maintain our independence from our enemies (namely China and Russia), we have to restart strip mining here in the U.S. Like that’s going to happen anytime soon!
    Read More “O&G Drilling vs. Renewables Strip Mining – Which Hurts Planet More?”

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    Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Apr 27, 2021

    April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

    OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Oil production in Alaska reaches lowest level in more than 40 years; NATIONAL: Moody’s outlook for global energy industry revised to positive on higher prices, demand recovery; Natural gas price prediction – prices rise despite warm weather forecast; Propane markets writhe due to supply/demand uncertainty; INTERNATIONAL: EU admits it can’t go net-zero without natural gas; Climate change has shifted the axis of the Earth, study shows.
    Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Apr 27, 2021”

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