Aborted Epiphany PA Wastewater Plant Resurrected w/PENNVEST Loan
We love a good “back from the dead” story. In 2017 Epiphany Water Solutions (aka Epiphany Environmental, LLC) filed for a permit to build a centralized oil and gas wastewater treatment facility in Coudersport (Potter County), PA (see Shale Wastewater Treatment Plant Planned for Potter County, PA). The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) held a public hearing on the proposed facility in January 2018. From that time on, the environmental left launched a smear campaign to defeat it, which subsequently happened in April 2018. But what’s this? Epiphany has just received a $6.1 million loan from the Gov. Shapiro administration to build a similar (same?) plant several counties away–in Clarion County, PA.
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Cheniere Energy CEO Jack Fusco dropped a verbal bomb at the LNG 2023 conference held last week in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada). Fusco told journalists that his company “will likely build a pipeline” that connects to other pipelines to flow even more natural gas to its Sabine Pass LNG export facility that sits near Sabine Lake, close to the Gulf Coast. The motivation is to get more gas for a planned “stage 5” expansion of the Sabine Pass facility, designed to liquefy and export an additional 20 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of LNG.
In January, Ohio House Bill (HB) 507 became law with the signature of Gov. Mike DeWine (see 
Researchers with the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) recently published a study in the journal Ecological Indicators. The study’s intent was to measure whether or not frack waste dumped in local landfills has radiation that is leaking out in groundwater (leachate) from those facilities. Research like this, if legitimate (and accurate), is a good thing. We need to know if the waste we’re dumping is causing a problem. But a funny thing happened during the study. The researchers found a big problem with recordkeeping.
Two of the world’s largest three oilfield services (OFS) companies, Halliburton and Baker Hughes, provided updates this week for their second-quarter performance and operations. Both companies said essentially the same thing. Drilling is slowing down in U.S. shale, but offshore drilling in other parts of the world is still going strong and makes up for the slowdown here at home.
This story reinforces what we have said FOR YEARS: The radicalized environmental left will NEVER be satisfied that fossil energy is acceptable, no matter what we do to ensure it’s “clean and green.” As we have said so many times before, the environmental left is unreasonable–not able to be reasoned with. Irrational. Haters. We have new evidence for our claims. There are four major certification schemes to ensure natural gas produced in the U.S. is “responsible”–or clean and green. In March, the Bidenistas began to sniff around the certification authorities to grab that authority for themselves. A cabal of some 150 “environmental” (leftist Communist) groups are telling the Bidenistas not to bother. Gas will never be acceptable.
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