I’ve Been Workin’ on the (Short Line) Railroad, All the Live-Long Day
More feel-good stories of how the Marcellus Shale has almost single-handedly revived the short line railroad business. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has an excellent roundup piece that covers a number of short line railroads that have gotten a second chance because of the Marcellus. The article begins with this story about the Allegheny Valley Railroad company, located in a Pittsburgh suburb:
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Here’s a contrary view if ever we’ve seen one: Bill Powers, editor and writer of the Powers Energy Investor newsletter and someone who has sat on the board of three oil and gas companies and has been an active investor for 25 years, says shale gas supplies in the U.S. have been vastly overhyped. Over the past three years Powers researched and next spring will publish a new book called: Cold, Hungry and in the Dark: Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth. In the book he argues that contrary to the popular belief that the U.S. has a 100-year supply of natural gas due to shale gas fracking, he believes it’s more on the order of 5-7 years. Say what??