PA DEP Releases VOC Reg to Control Conventional Well Emissions
As we told you last week, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) was long ago supposed to have reintroduced a new set of regulations for the conventional oil and gas industry in the state to control methane emissions (see PA DEP Playing Beat the Clock with VOC Reg for Conventional Wells). The method used by the DEP for controlling methane emissions in shale wells, and intends to do with conventional wells, is by controlling VOCs, or volatile organic compounds. Control one, and you control the other, supposedly. The DEP is playing “beat the clock” because if new regs are not in place by the end of this year, the federal government is threatening to withhold $500 million (or more) in federal highway funds from the state. Wonder of wonders, the DEP issued a draft of their proposed conventional regs late Friday night and will discuss them at a meeting of the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) tomorrow. Unfortunately, what the DEP issued is the same-old-same-old.
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On Saturday, Oct. 1, Berkshire Hathaway Energy shut down the Cove Point, Maryland, LNG export facility to perform regular annual maintenance. Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett), while a minority owner of Cove Point, is the operator of the facility. Natural gas flowing to the plant for liquefaction and export averaged 0.76 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in September (three-fourths of a Bcf). Those flows dropped to near zero on Oct. 1. Cove Point is typically offline for three weeks each year for maintenance. Now we hold our collective breath until it comes back online. Three-fourths of a Bcf each and every day is a lot of gas. Where will it go?
The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently published an article observing the number of DUCs (
Help! We’re in a nightmare, and we can’t wake up! It feels like we’re in one of those interminable Halloween movies (there’s a new one coming out this month called Halloween Ends, can you believe it?). Picture this: A president who already tilts far to the left and has dementia manages to sucker a “moderate” Democrat from West Virginia to vote for a falsely named climate bill (calling it Inflation Reduction), getting the bill passed. And that bill contains $40 BILLION for the federal EPA to use for (among other things) concocting new regulations to impose on the oil and gas industry, circumventing states’ rights as enumerated under the U.S. Constitution. The EPA is about to unleash those onerous new regulations–this week–just in time for Halloween! God help us all.
When oil and natural gas (i.e. methane) are extracted from the ground, inevitably some methane leaks/escapes into the atmosphere. Such leaks cause leftist wackos to go apoplectic, they’re so convinced methane will cause the earth to toast. We don’t like seeing methane leak either–but for a different reason. Every one of those molecules could be harvested and sold! There’s money in that leaking methane! One of the first tasks in solving the issue of leaking methane is to determine its source. Where is the methane originating from? Researchers at the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) have discovered a way to determine where methane originates by measuring not only methane, but other hydrocarbons present, including ethane.
For years the left has not been able to win debates, nor win the hearts and minds of citizens, because there are conservatives willing to stand up and air an opposing view. The conservative view often makes the most sense. And so conservatives win arguments and win the support of a majority of citizens by using sound and rational reasoning. The left simply cannot compete with common sense. How does the left combat the situation? By demanding an end to free speech. In the same way the left labels some people as racists in order to shut them up and stop any debate, the left now insists that anyone with a viewpoint they don’t hold is spreading “disinformation” and is “dangerous” and must be stopped. It is most noticeable in the debate over global warming. If you say anything other than the accepted leftist meme that mankind is destroying the earth by burning fossil fuels, you are spreading disinformation and are a danger to society. Free speech is very close to dying in this country–because of the left.
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