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  • Energy Services | Equitrans/EQT Midstream | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Regulation | Statewide VA | Statewide WV | Virginia | West Virginia

    MVP “Mechanically Complete” – Asks FERC to Begin Flowing TODAY!

    June 11, 2024June 11, 2024

    Is today the day we’ve been waiting and writing about for the past nine years? Possibly! Yesterday, Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), the 303-mile, 2 Bcf/d pipeline from Wetzel County, WV, to Pittsylvania County, VA, filed a request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to say the pipeline is now mechanically complete, meaning the pipeline is in the ground, covered up, fully tested, and ready to begin operations. MVP asked FERC to allow it to begin flowing gas TODAY, June 11. At best, it’s a 50/50 shot that FERC will allow it to begin operations today. No matter. Whether today, tomorrow, or next week, MVP is done and will begin. WE WON!
    Read More “MVP “Mechanically Complete” – Asks FERC to Begin Flowing TODAY!”

  • Hydrogen | Industrywide Issues

    Peoples NatGas & Pittsburgh Startup Demo Tech Converting CH4 to H2

    June 11, 2024June 11, 2024

    Natural gas utility Peoples Natural Gas (headquartered in Pittsburgh) is working with Pittsburgh startup company H Quest and the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering to test new technology from H Quest that microwaves natural gas (CH4), turning it into clean hydrogen (H2) and carbon black. No carbon dioxide (CO2) is released in the process. The H Quest tech is housed in what looks like a tractor-trailer container unit that is powerful enough to “decarbonize more than 1,000 residential households in one go.”
    Read More “Peoples NatGas & Pittsburgh Startup Demo Tech Converting CH4 to H2”

  • American Energy Partners Inc. | Belmont County | Energy Companies | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Ohio | Wastewater

    Martins Ferry Sees No Evidence of Cleanup at Austin Master Serv.

    June 11, 2024June 11, 2024

    We have been tracking and reporting on the drama surrounding Austin Master Services (AMS), a radiological waste management solutions company in Martins Ferry (Belmont County), Ohio, located close to the Ohio River, since the Ohio Attorney General lodged charges against the company back in March (see our AMS stories here). AMS has stored at least 10,000 tons of fracking waste (drill cuttings with low radioactivity) at the facility. The facility is rated and permitted to hold 600 tons. In March, Ohio AG Dave Yost asked the Belmont County Common Pleas Court to block AMS from receiving more waste and order it to clean up and comply with its rating. According to Martins Ferry Mayor John Davies, who addressed the city council last Wednesday, nothing has been done so far.
    Read More “Martins Ferry Sees No Evidence of Cleanup at Austin Master Serv.”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Hydrogen | Industrywide Issues

    Antis Mad They Can’t Protest Specific ARCH2 Hydrogen Projects

    June 11, 2024June 11, 2024

    Anti-fossil fuelers can’t protest specific projects that are part of the ARCH2 (Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub) initiative because the projects are still being fleshed out. There aren’t any specifics yet to share, which makes antis mad. As soon as they know what projects are planned, they will use considerable sums of money (from dubious sources) to try and defeat, block, and oppose those projects because they irrationally hate natural gas, which will be the feedstock used in ARCH2.
    Read More “Antis Mad They Can’t Protest Specific ARCH2 Hydrogen Projects”

  • Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Regulation | Statewide PA

    Bill Would Study Why PA DEP Issues 800 Different Types of Permits

    June 11, 2024June 11, 2024

    Did you know that the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) is responsible for processing and issuing some 800 different types of permits? Does that not seem a bit excessive? (Is there a permit for applying for a permit?) Being responsible for issuing 800 permits sure sounds like government run amok. Big government. PA State Rep. Jim Struzzi (Republican from Indiana County) announced the introduction of House Resolution 468 last week. The legislation directs the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee (LBFC) to conduct a survey of the PA DEP’s permitting processes.
    Read More “Bill Would Study Why PA DEP Issues 800 Different Types of Permits”

  • BP | CNG/LNG | Energy Companies | Exporting | Industrywide Issues | Regulation | Shell

    FERC Orders Venture Global to Hand Over Documents to LNG Customers

    June 11, 2024June 11, 2024

    Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility received FERC authorization to place the final three liquefaction blocks (7-9) into service last fall (see Venture Global Gets FERC OK to Commission 3 Calcasieu Pass Trains). The other trains, 1-6, have been online for over two years. However, the entire facility is not officially in commercial service, even though it has shipped over 200 cargoes! Venture Global claims it’s still working out the kinks. Venture’s contracted customers are frustrated that they aren’t getting any of their contracted (price-guaranteed) shipments, so they sued last September (see Repsol Joins Shell, BP in Suing Venture Global for Missed LNG).
    Read More “FERC Orders Venture Global to Hand Over Documents to LNG Customers”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Research | Taxation

    End Game Revealed: Carbon Tax Would Fund Universal Basic Income

    June 11, 2024June 11, 2024
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    Massive wealth transfer (your money forcibly transferred to other people in other countries)… subjugation of your life by controlling the energy you use… a new form of worldwide Communism. Has MDN gone off its rocker? Does MDN really believe the stuff it writes about issues like a carbon tax aimed at not only stifling the use of fossil fuels but also being a heist — the theft of your money? Well, yes, we do believe it! And we believe it not because of some conspiracy theory spun by a crackpot commentator on the radio. We believe it because we read and listen to the actual words of leftists. We don’t make things up. The left will tell you what it intends to do if you just open your eyes and ears. Case in point… Here is a current headline from a mainstream news service: “Here’s an idea: a worldwide universal basic income paid for by a carbon tax. A study found that it could boost the global GDP by 130%.” Who uses the most fossil energy in the world? We do, here in the U.S. So who would “fund” the vast majority of a guaranteed, worldwide “universal basic income” for the rest of the world via a forced carbon tax? We would — U.S. taxpayers. Still think we’re crazy crackpots?
    Read More “End Game Revealed: Carbon Tax Would Fund Universal Basic Income”

  • Best of the Rest

    Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Jun 11, 2024

    June 11, 2024June 11, 2024

    MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: VNG fuels workforce development with $620,000 investment; NATIONAL: Climate activists arrested at Citi’s NYC headquarters; NERC reports some regions at risk for energy shortfalls; Democrats scapegoating Big Oil for political gain; Steamy weather heats up natural-gas prices; Natgas prices erase early gains as weather forecasts shift cooler; INTERNATIONAL: Oil recoups losses as it rises near $78 a barrel; New Zealand set to scrap oil, gas exploration ban; LNG regasification set to dominate China midstream projects; Industry body issues message for UK politicians; Europe’s shift from Russian gas to pricey LNG.
    Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Tue, Jun 11, 2024”

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