Radicals Demand DRBC Vote to Institute Full, Permanent Frack Ban
In September, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that the state senators who represent Pennsylvania landowners living in the Delaware River Basin, primarily in Wayne and Pike counties in the northeastern corner of Pennsylvania, don’t have “standing” to sue the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) to overturn its ban on fracking (see 3rd Circuit Buys Anti Argument, Blocks PA from Suing DRBC). The DRBC has proposed a permanent ban but has never actually conducted a final vote to permanently ban fracking in the Basin (see Governors from PA-NY-DE Vote to Ban Fracking in Dela. River Basin). The left, sensing it may lose either the Pennsylvania or New York governorships (or both), is pushing DRBC members to take a final vote to permanently ban fracking in the basin–before it loses power.
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Yesterday the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association (PIOGA) held its annual Marcellus to Market conference at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows in Washington, PA. The event explored efforts to promote manufacturing in Pennsylvania, natural gas as a transportation fuel, the future of the long-rumored Appalachian Storage Hub, and the latest regarding pipelines and other means of delivering natural gas to market. A key focus for the event and topic for a panel discussion in the morning was workforce recruiting, development, and retention. MDN friend Charlie Schliebs, Chairman of the Energy Innovation Center Institute and Managing Director of Stone Pier Capital Advisors, moderated this lively panel.
In early August, a coalition of 19 state attorneys general fired a warning shot across the bow of BlackRock (largest investment firm with $10 trillion in assets under management), telling the company its pressure on investors to divest from fossil energy companies based on so-called ESG (environmental, social, governance) criteria may, in fact, be illegal (see 
We pointed out last week that the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the agency charged with overseeing the safety of some 3.3 million miles of pipelines across the country, is currently leaderless (see 
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” New Jersey is attempting to abridge the freedom of speech for Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute (API). NJ has sued those entities claiming they knew that the products they manufacture and promote (oil and gas) have caused global warming and that these entities have lied, and continue to lie, about knowing. NJ wants to muzzle the right of the API and Exxon, et al., to freely defend themselves and stick up for fossil energy, claiming to do so endangers the public and harms the residents of NJ. It’s the most outlandish thing you’ve ever heard.
For some time, we’ve been sounding the alarm about a coming change at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that will force publicly traded companies to disclose mythical greenhouse gas emissions data (see 
Rupert Darwall, a senior fellow at RealClearFoundation, was recently interviewed by NTD News (associated with The Epoch Times newspaper). It was an outstanding interview (watch it below). Darwall said environmentalists use a version of McCarthyism to stifle opposition–a form of “moral blackmail.” If anyone deigns to disagree with the accepted catastrophic global warming party line, that person is hounded until they shut up. And if they don’t shut up, their job (and social standing) is threatened. Free speech is dead in the environmental movement. Free thought is too.
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