CPV Announces Plans for Massive $3 Billion, 1,800 MW Gas-Fired Plant in WV
On Friday, Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) announced that it has selected West Virginia for a 1,800-megawatt, combined-cycle natural gas power station (using Marcellus/Utica gas) that also uses carbon capture and storage (required window dressing in this day and age). The extremely unpopular WV Sen. Joe Manchin tried to take credit for the $3 billion project, to help rehabilitate his reputation (it didn’t work, he’s as unpopular as ever). The official announcement didn’t say where the plant will be built, but one news account says it will get built in Doddridge County. The project will employ 1,000 people to build it and won’t be ready until “later this decade.” This is one of, if not THE largest gas-fired power plant we’ve heard of. And it will get built in WV! It’s about time.
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A group of roughly 60 landowners located in Fayette County, PA, have received a $5.5 million settlement from what was Chief Exploration and Development (now called Cyprus Exploration and Development) to compensate the landowners for leases signed in 2008. The landowners filed a class action lawsuit in 2011, claiming bonus and rent payments were not made.
In a brilliant move aimed at boxing in the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), two northeastern Pennsylvania State Senators–Gene Yaw and Lisa Baker–along with members of the PA Senate Republican Caucus (27 Senators in all), filed a lawsuit in January 2021 against the DRBC accusing the quasi-governmental agency of “taking” the property rights of PA residents without just compensation under the law over the DRBC’s ban on fracking (see 
A major psychological milestone was hit this month for the first time. Natural gas production in the Lower 48 States passed 100 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). According to RBN Energy, Lower 48 dry gas production hit a record 100.1 Bcf/d on September 6. The experts at RBN delve into why this is such a remarkable event, and what it means. The short version is that demand for natural gas *here at home* (in the U.S.) is at record highs and shows no signs of diminishing.
Two New York City Councilmembers recently introduced a resolution to block the construction of gas vaporizer expansions in National Grid’s Greenpoint Newtown Creek facility. The resolution calls on the state Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to deny a permit, and for the state Public Service Commission to deny allowing National Grid to fund it. National Grid is desperately trying not to run out of natural gas for its customers in Brooklyn and Queens (on Long Island). Antis are trying to force National Grid to do just that–run out of natural gas, leaving citizens in the cold in the dead of winter.
Finally, a little honesty from the editorial pages of the New York Times. Yes, the Times still publishes fake news on a regular basis (their news operation cannot be trusted). However, one of their leftist opinion writers, Thomas L. Friedman, recently published a real eye-opener. Friedman says Putin believes he has found a cold war he can win–a war on energy. And the West will not win that war unless “the U.S. and its Western allies stop living in a green fantasy world that says we can go from dirty fossil fuels to clean renewable energy by just flipping a switch.” Whoa! And then Friedman attacks the left’s attack on fossil energy, indicating it will be decades, at a minimum, before we are close to transitioning to energy sources that are not fossil-based.
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Pennsylvania sees decline in natural gas rigs; OOGEEP has awarded $599,000 in scholarships to Ohio students; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Judge confirms ‘sue & settle’ agreement; NATIONAL: As farmers split from the GOP on climate change, they’re getting billions to fight it; Rich John Kerry cautions impoverished African nations against natural gas projects; INTERNATIONAL: Russia could find new markets for half the oil shunned by the EU; Putin says ‘push the button’ on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to get more natural gas.