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    31 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Jul 8 – 14

    July 19, 2024July 19, 2024

    For the week of July 8 – 14, a total of 31 permits were issued to drill new shale wells in Marcellus/Utica. Pennsylvania had a nice increase with 25 new permits issued. A full 9 of PA’s permits went to Snyder Brothers for a single well in Armstrong County. Another 6 permits went to EQT in PA’s Greene and Washington counties. There were 5 new permits in Ohio, all of them going to Encino Energy for a single pad in Guernsey County. West Virginia had a single new permit going to EQT in Wetzel County.
    Read More “31 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Jul 8 – 14”

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

    Deal to Take Over Austin Master Services Appears to Have Failed

    July 19, 2024July 19, 2024

    In early June, the owner of Austin Master Services (AMS), American Environmental Partners (AEP), sent a press announcement to MDN to announce he had found a buyer for AMS (see AEP Announces Finding a Buyer for Austin Master Services). AMS is a radiological waste management solutions company in Martins Ferry (Belmont County), Ohio. The Ohio Attorney General lodged charges against AMS in March, accusing the company of storing 16+ times more drill cuttings at the facility than it’s rated for. According to an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the deal to take over AMS and clean it up has fallen through.
    Read More “Deal to Take Over Austin Master Services Appears to Have Failed”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Carbon Capture | Hydrogen | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Regulation | Statewide PA

    PA Gov. Shapiro Signs Carbon Capture Bill into Law – Now Act 87

    July 19, 2024July 19, 2024

    Environmental radicals have struck out a second time, and they’re pretty bitter about it. We’re talking about Senate Bill (SB) 831, the Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS) Act. Last week, a strong bipartisan majority in the PA legislature ignored the radicals that had asked Democrat legislators to block the bill, passing the bill and sending it to the governor’s desk (see PA Legislature Rejects Radical Antis, Passes CCS Bill, Sends to Gov). Having failed with Democrat legislators, the radicals hung their hopes on convincing Gov. Shapiro to veto the bill. That didn’t happen either. He signed SB 831 into law on Wednesday. It’s now officially known as Act 87.
    Read More “PA Gov. Shapiro Signs Carbon Capture Bill into Law – Now Act 87”

  • Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Regulation

    Murphy DEP Approves Plan for Newark, NJ Gas-Fired Peaker Plant

    July 19, 2024July 19, 2024

    The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission operates the largest sewage treatment plant in the entire state of New Jersey — in Newark. When Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, the sewer plant lost power and dumped BILLIONS of gallons of raw sewage into the Passaic River. The Commission has a plan to prevent that from happening again: Build a tiny natural gas peaker plant to generate electricity. It would only be used to prevent such environmental damage again (i.e., rarely used, only for emergencies). Yet Earthjustice and other radicalized leftists accuse the plan to build the peaker plant of being racist, and they oppose it (see Earthjustice Claims Newark, NJ Gas-Fired Peaker Plant is Racist). Even though the plant was opposed by Big Green groups, the Gov. Phil Murphy administration has (finally) approved the project.
    Read More “Murphy DEP Approves Plan for Newark, NJ Gas-Fired Peaker Plant”

  • Chesterfield County | Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Regulation | Virginia

    Va. County OKs Dominion Plan to Change Location of Peaker Plant

    July 19, 2024July 19, 2024

    Dominion Energy plans to build four small “peaker” electric generating plants in Chesterfield County, VA, near Richmond (see Dominion Plans to Build 1,000-MW Gas Peaker Plant Near Richmond, VA). The Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center (CERC) calls for building four 250-megawatt gas-fired power plants (1,000 MW total) that can jump into action during the coldest and hottest days of the year to help supply enough electricity for 250,000 homes. In early June, we told you that Dominion is actively looking at changing the location of the proposed project to locate the peakers at an existing power-generating site where two gas-fired plants now operate (see Dominion Plan to Move Location of 4 Va. Gas-Fired Peakers Advances). That plan, unsurprisingly, is getting pushback from area residents and anti-fossil fuelers. However, their pleas are falling on deaf ears with county officials.
    Read More “Va. County OKs Dominion Plan to Change Location of Peaker Plant”

  • Mercer County | Pennsylvania

    BLM Plan to Plug 20 Orphaned O&G Wells in Mercer County, PA

    July 19, 2024July 19, 2024

    The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input on four draft environmental assessments evaluating potential impacts from the proposed plugging of orphaned oil and gas wells on public lands in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. One of the assessments seeks public input on plans to cap twenty abandoned gas and oil wells along the river flowing into the Shenango River Lake in Mercer County.
    Read More “BLM Plan to Plug 20 Orphaned O&G Wells in Mercer County, PA”

  • Best of the Rest

    Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Jul 19, 2024

    July 19, 2024July 19, 2024

    MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Utica Shale Academy expands welding program with $2.5M state funding; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Chicago mayor’s plan to end natural gas hookups is dead; NATIONAL: Collapse of key natgas trade points to massive supply glut; AI needs so much power it’s overwhelming the electrical grid; Are AI data centers sparking a bullish case for natural gas?; Trump’s VP pick is a climate skeptic and the knives are out; INTERNATIONAL: Germany accused of hoarding gas meant for Czech Republic; Satellite shows large oil slick in Red Sea after Houthi attacks.
    Read More “Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Jul 19, 2024”

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