Due Date for PA DEP Report re Methane Emissions Slips 6 Months
Both conventional and unconventional (shale) drillers in Pennsylvania were supposed to submit a new annual report to the state Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) on December 10 detailing volatile organic compound (VOC) and methane emissions from their operations over the past one-year period. Shortly before that deadline, the DEP suspended the due date. This past weekend, the DEP published a new due date. Drillers must submit the annual report (for 2023) by June 1, 2024.
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In April 2022, MDN reported that the top brass at Kinder Morgan, the owner and operator of the Elba Island LNG export facility (also known as Southern LNG), was considering an expansion of its modestly-sized facility (see 
Last Friday, Joementia announced he is putting “a temporary pause on pending decisions of Liquefied Natural Gas exports.” The reason? The so-called “climate crisis” is “the existential threat of our time.” It’s all rubbish. The real reason is that he bowed to radical leftists in his own party. He needs them if he has a prayer of a chance of winning reelection in November (God forbid). The action supposedly affects 17 projects in the pipeline that have requested approval from the Dept. of Energy to export LNG to countries without free-trade agreements. But now, antis say Biden’s pause can potentially help them with their existing lawsuits against facilities already approved by the DOE.
This is brilliant and something EVERYONE needs to pay attention to. Closely. The Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” WV Senate Bill (SB) 358 was introduced on Jan. 12. The state runs a short, 60-day session early each year. SB 358 would end state and local enforcement of certain Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules and regulations, which is 100% legal according to the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution.
Here we go again. Freeport LNG’s export terminal with three liquefaction “trains” shut down in June 2022 after an explosion and fire (see 
The province of Quebec, Canada, with a huge supply of Utica Shale gas sitting beneath it, passed a new law in April 2022 — Bill 21 — outlawing all oil and natural gas production throughout the province (see 
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: U.S. Oil drillers are going electric, if they can get the electricity; NATIONAL: Energy Department sets efficiency standards for gas stoves; INTERNATIONAL: Oil drops as ample supplies offset Middle East tensions; Japan worried US pause of LNG export approvals may delay new projects; Spending on natural gas to top $1 trillion over the next decade.