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Connecting the Dots Between Aborted Wyalusing LNG, Biden, & Putin
We spotted two different articles published over the past couple of days about the recently nixed Marcellus LNG export plant that was planned for Wyalusing (Bradford County), PA (see NFE Caves to Radicals, “Pulls the Plug” on Wyalusing, PA LNG Plant). There’s plenty of blame to go around. We quoted a highly placed source who said the DEP is the party that “caved” to the radical left by not sticking up for a permit it had previously reviewed and issued (see New Fortress Building LNG Offshore La. Instead of Onshore Pa.). The articles we spotted analyzing the situation tie the aborted Wyalusing project to both Biden and Vladimir Putin. We think they’re both right.
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We keep hearing how the Bidenistas have softened their hardcore opposition to natural gas (and all fossil energy) given the war in Ukraine. We hear words mouthed by the administration, and Biden himself, that seems to indicate maybe, just maybe, the administration will stop its targeting of natural gas–at least for a while. And yet the actual actions we see coming from the administration, like the actions of the Bidenistas at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), say otherwise. Example: Biden’s FERC recently released a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Commonwealth LNG export facility located in Louisiana (full copy below). The draft EIS says the facility will have “significant impacts” on so-called “environmental justice communities.” That’s a loud and clear signal that this much-needed LNG project will have trouble getting approved by the hardcore leftists at Biden’s FERC.
Two weeks ago MDN brought you the news that New Fortress Energy has withdrawn a request to extend a previously-issued permit required to build an onshore LNG liquefaction plant in Wyalusing (Bradford County), PA (see 
In what appears to be an adoption of talking points from left-wing Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, the normally-balanced Wall Street Journal is blaming LNG exports for higher natural gas prices here at home. The article attempts to make the case that a gradually increasing amount of LNG exports has led to high electric prices in the U.S. The article is flawed in many ways.
Since Russia illegally and immorally invaded Ukraine on February 24, the stock price for Marcellus/Utica natural gas drillers has skyrocketed based on the fear that Russia will cut off natural gas to Europe in response to their response to the war (sanctions on Russia). The Russia/Ukraine war has stoked concerns that Europe will need much more natgas from the U.S. and therefore the U.S. will have to drill and pump more gas to supply it, making gas drillers an attractive investment.
Pipeline giant Energy Transfer (builder of the Rover and Mariner East pipelines here in the M-U) is planning a large-scale LNG export facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana located on the Calcasieu ship channel. The project will convert Energy Transfer’s existing Lake Charles LNG import and regasification terminal to become an LNG export facility. Yesterday ET announced it has signed a pair of 20-year deals with ENN, a Chinese company, to deliver a total of 2.7 million tonnes (mt) per year to the ChiComms (Chinese Communists).
For nearly 10 years MDN has tracked a Canadian LNG export project in Nova Scotia planned by Pieridae Energy. The project is called Goldboro LNG. Last May the company said a final investment decision (FID) would happen no later than June 30, 2021 (see 
Yesterday we reported on the Friday deal between the U.S. and the European Union to deliver more LNG to Europe (see 
Depending on your news source, the Biden administration reached an agreement with the European Union last Friday for the U.S. to supply more LNG to the EU beginning this year. Other news sources say it will be next to impossible for the U.S. to ship any more LNG to the EU this year. Yet other news sources (leaning to the far left) point out the agreement actually talks about the EU figuring out ways to *decrease* their natural gas (and LNG) usage. So what, exactly, was the agreement reached last week?
In early March MDN brought you information from the Toronto Financial Post that said the Ukrainian crisis has put East Coast Canada LNG export facilities “back on the map” (see 
It’s always a sad day when radical Big Green groups win a victory over American energy. Such has happened with the New Fortress Energy (NFE) LNG plant proposed for Wyalusing in Bradford County, PA. Three Big Green groups challenged an extension for a permit previously issued for a new liquefaction facility proposed by NFE located in northeastern PA. NFE has caved and agreed that should it proceed with the project, it will need to file all over again and get a new permit–which doesn’t look likely.