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OH Spending $250K to Study Utica to Lake Erie Pipe for LNG Exports
Here’s a fascinating development. Years ago, MDN heard the rumor of the potential to export LNG from a deepwater port along the shore of Lake Erie. The state of Ohio has just allocated $250,000 to study a pipeline in the “Lake to River” region of the state, which stretches from Columbiana County north through Mahoning, Trumbull, and Ashtabula counties. The pipeline could, potentially, flow Utica (and Marcellus) molecules from eastern Ohio (and possibly western PA) northward not only for potential liquefaction and export via a port in Ashtabula, but to feed new power plants in the region and even deliver low-cost natural gas to utility companies. Read More “OH Spending $250K to Study Utica to Lake Erie Pipe for LNG Exports”
In September 2022, EQT announced a deal to buy privately owned Tug Hill Operating’s West Virginia shale assets (90,000 acres and 800 MMcf/d of production in West Virginia) for roughly $5.2 billion (see 
One of the environmental left’s favorite tactics to defeat fossil fuel projects is to challenge every single infrastructure project (pipeline or otherwise) connected to fossil energy at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). As soon as a company files an application to build a new project, and FERC approves it, Big Green will challenge it, first at FERC, and eventually via the courts. FERC has an internal rule, called Order No. 871, that states a company cannot begin construction (even though FERC has approved the certificate) until all such legal challenges are resolved. Which can take YEARS. Which is the point—delay, and eventually some of the projects will give up and won’t build. Run out the clock. 
Shell, Norway’s Aker BP, and Canada’s Enbridge have all quit a Big Green-backed organization called the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a corporate climate action organization that is supposed to enable companies and financial institutions worldwide to “play their part in combating the climate crisis,” primarily by eliminating fossil fuels. Someone finally woke up at Shell and these other companies, and they quit, pulling their funding with them, which shut down SBTi’s work on a so-called net-zero standard for oil and gas in the process. 
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