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Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation

O&G Industry Wakes Up, Opposes Fed Control Over Gathering Pipelines
December 23, 2021April 18, 2022

In early November MDN told you about a massive new power grab being attempted by the Biden Dept. of Transportation’s PHMSA, implementing new regulations to take control of local gathering pipelines, in contravention to the U.S. Constitution (see Massive Power Grab Proposed by Biden DOT: Regulate Gathering Lines). At the time it appeared that the oil and gas industry was asleep at the switch and would not oppose this madness. It seems the industry has finally woken up and is now pushing back against the power grab.
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Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation | Statewide VA | Virginia

Regulators: Chickahominy Pipeline Subject to Va. State Oversight
December 23, 2021April 18, 2022

MDN first told you about plans to build the Chickahominy Power Station, a 1,650 megawatt state-of-the-art natural gas-fired power plant planned for Charles City County (near Richmond, Va.) in June 2018 (see Huge New Marcellus-Fired Power Plant Coming Near Richmond, VA). In September of this year, the Chickahominy project asked the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC), which oversees intrastate pipelines for utility companies, to excuse itself from regulating and overseeing the construction of a pipeline that will feed the Chickahominy power plant (see Va. Power Plant Says State Doesn’t Need to Approve Feeder Pipeline). The SCC ruled yesterday that yes, they will indeed oversee and regulate this proposed pipeline, thank you very much.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Columbia Pipeline Group | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation | Statewide VA | Virginia

Radicals Convince FERC to Cancel Deal with Pipe Contractor in Va.
December 23, 2021April 18, 2022

Score another victory for the forces of evil. Based on the flimsiest of excuses, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has canceled a $102 million contract with Burns & McDonnell, an environmental engineering and construction firm, to perform an environmental review of a Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline project that includes upgrading a meter station and two compressor stations in Virginia. Anti-fossil fuel zealots are responsible.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation

FERC’s 3rd Democrat Commissioner Spells Trouble for O&G Industry
December 23, 2021April 18, 2022

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Richard “Dick” Glick never met a pipeline project he actually likes. Now Glick has ammunition to torpedo every single newly proposed pipeline project that comes across his desk in the person of newly added Democrat Commissioner Willie Phillips, a swamp-dwelling D.C. apparatchik (see Senate Confirms D.C. Swamp-Dwelling Democrat Lawyer to FERC). This was the nightmare scenario we warned you about prior to the 2020 election, that FERC will be politicized and refuse to authorize any new pipelines. We hate being right about these things.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Regulation

NJ Gov Murphy Seeks to Ban NatGas for Heat, Appliances Statewide
December 23, 2021April 18, 2022

New Jersey is a huge and important market for Marcellus Shale gas. NJ’s far-left Governor, Phil Murphy, recently won reelection to his job by 84,286 votes, about 3% of all votes cast. In other words, Murphy doesn’t have any kind of mandate to continue his socialist policies. Yet he’s now doubling down. Murphy is attempting to ban the use of natural gas for heating, stoves, etc. across the entire state! It’s completely bonkers and insane. Some 75% of the homes and businesses heat with natural gas.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | New York | Regulation | Statewide NY

New York Plans to Outlaw Heating with Wood, Cites Global Warming
December 23, 2021April 18, 2022

In June 2019 the New York State legislature passed a horrific “energy” bill that was later signed into law by the now defrocked Gov. Andrew Cuomo (see New York Pulls the Trigger, Commits Energy Suicide with New Law). The new law, called the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (or “Climate Act”), limits carbon dioxide emissions to zero (an impossibility) by 2050. Tuesday we brought you a guide to understanding all of the evils contained in the bill (see Citizens Guide to Understanding New York’s So-Called Climate Act). As we predicted in 2019, not only will this bill outlaw the use of oil and natural gas for heat during out cold winters, it will also outlaw the use of wood stoves.
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Alternative Energy | Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues

Exposing the Abject Lie of “Energy Transition” from Fossil Fuels
December 23, 2021April 18, 2022

The left incessantly chatters about a so-called energy transition that’s “already underway” and “arriving any year now.” The transition is from using fossil fuel energy, which has led to the greatest advancements in civilization since we emerged from living in caves, to replacing fossil energy with so-called “renewables” including unreliable wind and solar. It’s pure fantasy that we will dump the use of fossil fuels anytime soon–within the next 100 years. But the lie is spreading nonetheless. How about checking in on how the “transition” is actually going, using real numbers and hard data.
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Other Stories of Interest: Thu, Dec 23, 2021
December 23, 2021April 18, 2022

NATIONAL: Front month NYMEX natural gas rose 2.77% to settle at $3.9760; Henry Hub marching toward $4/mn Btu; INTERNATIONAL: Geopolitical tension with Russia sends global gas soaring again; Ukraine says Russia’s Gazprom is creating ‘gas deficit’ in Europe; LNG flotilla carrying U.S. gas heading to Europe.
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