SRBC Stops Water Withdrawals for Fracking Use at 47 Locations
The highly functional and responsible Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC), unlike its highly dysfunctional and irresponsible counterpart, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), continues to support the shale energy industry by approving water withdrawals and consumptive use for responsible and safe shale drilling. The SRBC also tells shale drillers when to stop withdrawing if low water flow (i.e., drought) conditions exist. And that’s what the SRBC did earlier today. The agency, via its Hydrologic Conditions Monitor, warned shale drillers that, at 47 listed locations (all in Pennsylvania), they must stop water withdrawals until streamflow reaches a specific “trigger flow” target (different for each location). Read More “SRBC Stops Water Withdrawals for Fracking Use at 47 Locations”
Black Bear Transmission (BBT), the owner of nine regulated short pipeline transmission systems in the Southeastern U.S. totaling approximately 1,700 miles of pipeline, with a throughput capacity of about 2.6 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), is selling itself to Enstor Pipeline Holdings, LLC, for an undisclosed sum. Black Bear’s pipelines interconnect with 16 major long-haul pipelines and storage facilities across seven states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Believe it or not, there is a connection to the Marcellus/Utica. 
Big Green is keeping up the pressure on New York Governor Kathy Hochul to block two natural gas pipeline projects that have roared back to life at the prompting of President Trump. Just a week and a half ago, a Big Green rent-a-mob of some 400 (paid) protesters held a rally in New York City and proceeded to march across the Brooklyn Bridge to register their opposition to new natural gas pipelines (see 
A week ago, MDN told you that Venture Global (VG) had won an arbitration case brought against it by Shell (see 
A Reuters reporter/commentator published an article that chronicles (with lots of facts, statistics, and charts) the coming rapid buildout of both gas-fired power generation and LNG exports in the U.S. He pitches the situation as a coming “clash of the Titans” (our words, but his sentiment). The author believes that the buildout of new gas-fired plants will sop up molecules that would have gone to LNG export plants, setting up a price war for those molecules. (One could only hope!) We have a different perspective. 
A quick note to let our faithful readers know that MDN will not publish on Thursday or Friday of this week, August 21 & 22. Editor Jim Willis and his bride are taking a short holiday to spend time with family and attend a Major League Baseball game (Mets vs. Nationals). In addition to a trip to D.C. for the game, we will visit one of our favorite places on earth: Lancaster, PA. Jim will catch you up on all the news, including the latest permit numbers, on Monday, August 25.
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