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Shell, Archaea Energy Explore Carbon Capture Projects for SW, NE PA

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Two different companies working on two different plans have met with Pennsylvania’s Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) to discuss potential carbon capture and storage/sequestration (CCS) projects in the Keystone State. Shell, which is nearly done building its multi-billion-dollar ethane cracker in Beaver County, PA, is looking to establish a CCS project in Beaver County. Archaea Energy, one of the largest so-called renewable natural gas (RNG) producers in the U.S., is looking to set up a CCS project in Lackawanna County, PA (near Scranton).
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JobsOhio “Study” Says Ohio Should be H2 Hub, but Don’t Use Utica Gas

JobsOhio, a private nonprofit largely funded by liquor sales that the state allows the nonprofit to collect (in essence it collects sales tax on liquor sales), has funded a study from Cleveland State University that promotes the Buckeye State as THE place to locate a $2 billion hydrogen hub. However, the study says such a hub should NOT use Ohio’s abundant, clean, Utica Shale gas as a source to create the hydrogen that would be used by such a hub.

UPDATE: See an important update with additional information in this follow-up post: JobsOhio Still Loves the Utica Shale – MDN Interview.

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Bill Gives PA DEP Primacy in Approving Carbon Capture Inj. Wells

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Pennsylvania State Rep. Eric Nelson, a Republican from Westmoreland County, floated a House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda last week announcing he will soon introduce a new bill aimed at promoting carbon capture injection wells in the state by giving power to establish and regulate those wells to the state Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP). Nelson calls it “an exciting area of developing technology in the energy sector.”
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UPenn: Carbon Capture for Gas-Fired Plants Can be Economical

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University of Pennsylvania researchers recently published a study that looks at how using existing methods of removing carbon dioxide from natural gas-fired power plants can be made economical to operate for large power plant operations. Coincidentally we also spotted news about a pilot project to develop new technology to do the same thing. Our conclusion: Despite the insistence of left-wing radicals that all gas-fired power plants are irredeemable and should be closed, reasonable and rational people are looking for ways to solve the problem of CO2 emissions. It is a solvable “problem”…
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Occidental & Worley Bet the Ranch on Illusion of Carbon Capture

If we were an investor in either Occidental Petroleum or Worley, we’d be very worried. In a conversation with Daniel Yergin, vice chairman, IHS Markit, both Vicki Hollub, CEO of Occidental Petroleum, and Chris Ashton, CEO and managing director of Worley discuss their partnership to build a large-scale direct air carbon capture facility in the Permian Basin (expected to startup in 2024) and the potential to scale the technology further. Hollub and Ashton are gambling the future of their companies on so-called carbon capture.
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NETL’s Brian Anderson Continues to Push Biden Anti-Fossil Fuel Plan

Brian Anderson is director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and now the head of the Biden administration’s Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization, an effort to kill the use of fossil fuels (see NETL Flacks for Biden’s Kill Fossil Fuels Plan at M-U Event). We like Anderson and his role at NETL. We don’t like his new role of pimping for the Biden administration’s aim to end fossil fuels, which he did again in an interview with The Dominion Post.
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NETL Flacks for Biden’s Kill Fossil Fuels Plan at M-U Event

As we told you in April, President Biden launched a new program to be funded with $109.5 million aimed at figuring out how to convince fossil fuel workers to be happy taking a huge pay cut and installing solar panels and windmills instead of making far more money in a far more meaningful job working in fossil fuels (see Biden Gives $109M to Research How to End Use of Coal, Oil & Gas). Dr. Brian Anderson, director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), headquartered in Pittsburgh, is leading the effort. He recently tried to sell Biden’s bill of goods at the recent Marcellus and Manufacturing Development Conference hosted by the West Virginia Manufacturers Association.
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Biden Gives $109M to Research How to End Use of Coal, Oil & Gas

We’re kind of speechless and dumbfounded–but perhaps we shouldn’t be. Last week President Biden announced a new program to be funded with $109.5 million aimed at figuring out how to convince fossil fuel workers to be happy taking a huge pay cut and installing solar panels and windmills instead of making far more money in a far more meaningful job working in fossil fuels. Brian Anderson, director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), headquartered in Pittsburgh, will lead the effort. How enormously sad that Anderson, someone we greatly admire, is out in front selling Biden’s bill of goods–the end of fossil energy.
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PA Senate Hears About Ramping Up Carbon Capture from Fossil Fuels

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On Wednesday, Mar. 10, the Pennsylvania Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held an informational meeting on the deployment and utilization of carbon dioxide capture and management technologies. Sen. Gene Yaw (Republican from Lycoming County), who is the Majority Chair of the committee, is in favor of so-called carbon capture. So too is Sen. Carolyn Comitta (Democrat from Chester County), Minority Chair of the committee. A number of the presentations at the information meeting talked about carbon capture (and hydrogen’s) overlapping role with shale energy.
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