Get Your Slice of the Hydrogen Billions Pie – Learn How Nov. 10
The federal government is falling all over itself to spend YOUR money on hydrogen and carbon capture projects. The so-called Infrastructure Bill from last year allocates $8 billion on hydrogen projects (with $7 billion being spent on 6-10 regional hubs). The misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes roughly $369 billion in incentives for energy and climate-related programs, including tax credits, research loans, and more. In other words, there are mountains of money available that companies can potentially access. Why shouldn’t M-U companies participate? Learn how to tap into all of that dough at the Appalachian Hydrogen Carbon Capture Conference being held in Canonsburg, PA, on Nov. 10.
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So what happens now that Joe Manchin’s plan to get his fellow Democrats to vote for a bill to finish up the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a “permitting reform” bill, is dead (see 
The Millennium Pipeline, which stretches 263 miles from Corning, NY, to just outside New York City, delivers Pennsylvania Marcellus and Utica gas to utility and power plant markets across New York State and into New England. Several companies jointly own the pipeline, which operates under its own corporate structure. Among those with an ownership interest are TC Energy (formerly TransCanada), utility giant National Grid, and pipeline company DT Midstream. Last week DT Midstream announced it would double its ownership stake in the Millennium from 26.25% to 52.50%. DT will pay $552 million to become the majority owner of the Millennium Pipeline.
On Monday, MDN told you that the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) Graduate School of Public Health and the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) had “suddenly” pulled out of an event scheduled for yesterday to update the public on Pitt’s research on the potential health effects of hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania (see 
Eureka Resources, which operates three frack wastewater treatment facilities in the Marcellus Shale, is doing really cool stuff. In October 2019, the company began extracting lithium from Marcellus wastewater at one of its plants in Bradford County, PA (see 
BlackRock, which encourages investors to divest from companies that refuse to tow the ESG line (i.e. fossil energy companies), is feeling the heat. That is, BlackRock is beginning to lose money. Big money. First, West Virginia announced that all state-run pension plans would divest the divestors of BlackRock (see 
In July, the PA Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) voted 5-0 to approve Part I of the final Environmental Quality Board (EQB) regulation that supposedly will capture every last molecule of stray methane that leaks from shale drilling operations (see 
Equinor, Norway’s largest oil company (state-owned, used to be called Statoil before they became ashamed to have the word “oil” in their name), announced it had achieved 100% certification for its natural gas produced in the Ohio Utica using Equitable Origin’s EO100™ standard. Equinor now produces “responsible” natural gas for its 27,000 operational net acres, and 242,000 non-operational net acres. Congrats!
We’re confused. The State of Connecticut has been on a holy mission to eliminate natural gas-fired power plants in the state. In January of this year, Connecticut’s weak governor, Ned Lamont, gave in to radicals and helped torpedo a 650-megawatt, gas-fired plant slated to be built in eastern Connecticut (see 
Each month the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) publishes a huge report called Natural Gas Monthly. Last Friday, EIA issued the latest (September 2022) edition of the report. There is a LOT of information in the report–statistics, data, charts, you name it. And the report covers not just the U.S., but natural gas flows for all countries around the world. One aspect of the report deals with prices. The analysts at EIA excerpted some of that information into a post on the agency’s Today in Energy website, comparing the price of natural gas for both residential and commercial customers this year with the five-year rolling average. In real terms, the 2021 annual residential price was the highest since 2014, and the commercial price was the highest since 2015. It looks like we will fly by those statistics in 2022.
It doesn’t take much these days to buy yourself a “study” that shows what you want it to show. So-called scientists are for hire all over the place. Take, for example, “researchers” at Stanford University and the University of Arizona. All that the far-left Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) had to do was put some money into the pockets of a couple of “researchers” from those schools, and voila! A new “peer-reviewed” study was published yesterday that claims natural gas gathering pipelines (in the Permian Basin) leak like sieves. Oh yeah. It’s FAR worse than anyone had ever thought. All that methane is leaking and toasting Mom Earth, and the villain is gathering pipelines. What a load of…
The world is currently in the midst of its third great energy crisis. The first came in 1973 (remember the long gas lines?) when the U.S. sided with Israel in the Yom Kippur war. OPEC (an enemy of Israel and the U.S.) tried to punish us by cutting off oil shipments. We should have learned back then. We didn’t. Near the end of the 1970s, when Islamic fundamentalists took over in Iran, we experienced our next great energy crisis (prices for oil doubled). And now, in 2021/2022, we are in the throes of our third worldwide energy crisis. But this time it is different. Instead of Middle Eastern despots being at the root of this crisis, it is self-inflicted–an irrational war against fossil energy by Joe Biden and those aligned with him on the environmental left.
MDN Editor Jim Willis had the honor of presenting today at the Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Landowner Alliance (
Nearly two years ago, Gov. Tom Wolf announced a $2.5 million contract had been awarded to the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health to “conduct research on the potential health effects of hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania” (see