PA Charges Mariner East Pipeline $8M+ to Fix Marsh Creek Lake
While drilling in Chester County in August 2020 in the Marsh Creek State Park area, Energy Transfer’s (ET) Mariner East 2X pipeline experienced an “inadvertent return”–nontoxic drilling mud coming up out of the ground where it’s not supposed to (see Mariner East 2X Construction Causes Another Drilling Mud Spill). In this case, an estimated 8,100 gallons of non-toxic drilling mud came up in a small section of the 535-acre Marsh Creek Lake. It was a costly episode for ET. The state has just announced a gun-to-the-head “agreement” with ET that has ET paying a $4 million fine, spending another $4 million (or more) to dredge and fix the area, and $341,000 in civil penalties for permit violations.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), lapdog of leftwing Gov. Tom Wolf, tried to bypass the state legislature and secretly push through and get adopted a proposed regulation on the state joining the highly controversial Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state compact to limit carbon emissions from power plant operators (a carbon tax). The DEP just got caught red-handed.
Olympus Energy (formerly Huntley & Huntley) has contracted with Project Canary to monitor methane emissions from both the company’s drilling operations (the upstream) and the company’s pipeline operations (the midstream). While a number of other Marcellus/Utica drillers have signed up with Project Canary to monitor methane emissions, the Olympus deal is different and special for two reasons: (1) it’s a private (not publicly owned) company, and (2) the deal covers both upstream and midstream, for the same company.
The odious leftists from the so-called Food & Water Watch (Big Green group, funded with foreign money) continue to pressure, cajole, woo, and hoodwink local municipalities in New Jersey to oppose building a new dock on the Delaware River–a dock that would allow LNG cargo carriers to come alongside and load up with yummy, safe, clean-burning LNG. The latest victim of FWW’s lies is Trenton, New Jersey.
Even amid the increasingly shrill and irrational ramblings of so-called scientists who predict gloom and doom if we don’t dump fossil fuel use immediately (while they ignore even bigger sources of carbon emissions), the world’s biggest banks and investment houses, while talking about dumping fossil fuel investments, haven’t actually done so. And according to Bloomberg, big banks don’t intend to deny their fossil fuel clients (oil, gas and coal companies) anytime soon. That’s really good news.
The NYMEX natural gas futures price plunged more than 10% on Monday, falling to the lowest level since August to close down 47.5 cents at $3.66 per MMBtu. And that comes after last week’s 24% loss, which was natural gas’ worst week since February 2014! What’s going on? The forecast is for warmer-than-expected winter temperatures across much of the country.
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: ISO New England sees precarious power reliability heading into winter; Pinelands ‘stab in the back’; NATIONAL: These twenty-five Biden administration policies are raising energy costs; INTERNATIONAL: Saudis raise oil prices for Asia and USA; European natural gas inventories decline as first cold snap of winter arrives; Upstream industry ‘too optimistic’ on how long energy transition will take; Natural gas markets to see very volatile 2022.