A small LNG export facility project at a site on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida received final approval yesterday from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Eagle LNG, the project sponsor, plans to have the facility built and running by 2021.
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New York Gov. Andrew “Don Corleone” Cuomo continues his sleazy vendetta against National Grid, the New York City/Long Island gas utility company that is refusing to connect *new* customers to their natural gas system because Cuomo has denied new sources of natural gas for that system. So far NY media is licking Cuomo’s boots on this issue, publishing sob stories that blame National Grid for the hardships now faced in the region. But residents in NYC and Long Island are not fooled. They see what’s really happening.
Read More ““Don Corleone” Cuomo Calls Out Utility for Denying Gas Service”
Tens of thousands of high school students in cities across the U.S. are skipping classes today to attend so-called Global Climate Strike marches. The brainwashed kids are “calling for immediate action to end climate change.” They will be part of a global joint protest, arranged by Big Green groups, purportedly aimed at adults who they say are ignoring the “destruction of the planet.” We suspect some of the kids will take advantage of the day off to go vape somewhere and maybe get a little nookie. Whoops! Did we say that with our out-loud mouth?
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The Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) established the Remote Water Quality Monitoring Network (RWQMN) in January 2010 in response to natural gas drilling activities in the basin. Each year the SRBC issues an update/report on findings from the previous year. The report for 2018 was just released and it found, as all previous reports have found, that there are NO impacts from natural gas drilling on the water in the Susquehanna River Basin and its sub-basins, nor on PA state land within the basin.
Read More “SRBC Report: No Impact from Drilling on PA Watersheds, State Land”
A group of mostly Democrats, with three RINOs (Republican in Name Only) thrown in to earn the laughable label of “bipartisan,” gathered in Harrisburg, PA at the Capitol earlier this week to turn up the pressure on PA’s liberal Gov. Wolf on the issue of clamping down on methane emissions in the oil and gas industry. The group’s ultimate purpose is to eliminate the Marcellus Shale industry from the state. They can’t admit that openly, but that’s their agenda.
Read More “PA Dems, RINOs Pressure Gov Wolf to Attack Shale with Methane Regs”
Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Investment Program (or PIPE) grants cover part of the cost of building new natgas pipelines to connect homes and businesses in rural parts of the state to homegrown Marcellus Shale gas supplies. We’ve written about many of the more-than-a-dozen (so far) PIPE grant projects in the past (see our PIPE stories here). Another three such grants, totaling $2.8 million, have just been awarded–in Bradford, Lancaster and Lebanon counties. The big news with this latest round of grants is that they will create over 1,900 jobs!
Read More “PA Invests $2.8M to Extend NatGas Pipeline Service in 3 Counties”
In 2012, Pennsylvania State Senator Andy Dinniman, Democrat from Chester County, PA (near Philadelphia) voted against passage of the Act 13 law that created the impact “fee” (actually a tax) on Marcellus Shale drillers in the state. Yet earlier this week Dinniman issued a press release to tout $740,000 in new grants for “green” projects in his district, essentially taking credit for getting the money for those projects, paid for by impact fee revenue! Is it any wonder politicians like Dinniman rate below used car salesman in opinion polls?
Read More “PA Sen. Dinniman Takes Credit for Green Projects Funded by Shale”
The radical Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) published a “report” (i.e. propaganda) in 2017 that made the preposterous claim that New England customers have overpaid utility bills by $3.6 billion due to collusion between the natural gas and electricity industries (see EDF Accuses New England Gas Utilities of $3.6B Market Manipulation). That false report led to a class action lawsuit against the two companies accused. After years of litigation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has just affirmed a lower court ruling that tossed out this sham lawsuit based on a sham report.
Read More “Fed Court Tosses Claim New England Utilities Manipulated Gas Mkt”
We’ve written plenty about President Obama’s so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP), a plan to force electric generators to convert to using more “renewable” sources of energy and less fossil fuels (see Obama Stabs Natural Gas Electric Plants in Clean Power Plan). The Obama CPP would have outright assassinated coal powered generation, and wounded (but not quite killed) natural gas. It was Obama’s attempt at picking winners and losers in who and how we get our energy. Fortunately the Trump Administration neutered the CPP and Tuesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed Trump’s action and declared the CPP dead as a doornail.
Read More “Obama’s “Signature” Climate Reg, Clean Power Plan, Finally Dead”
Earlier this month CNN, the news network no one watches anymore, held a seven-hour “town hall” style meeting on mythical climate change with the leading candidates for the Democrat nomination for president. Among the participants was U.S. Sen. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren (who once falsely claimed to have Indian heritage in order to get into Harvard Law School). Warren made a complete horse’s rear-end of herself. She promised to ban all fracking everywhere on her first day in office if elected president. Charif Souki, co-founder of LNG export company Tellurian, obliterated Warren’s statement in addressing attendees of the Gastech conference on Tuesday.
Read More “Charif Souki Schools Elizabeth Warren on Consequences of Frack Ban”
There, now that’s the DRBC (Delaware River Basin Commission) we know and expect–obsequiously bowing before the likes of THE Delaware Riverkeeper and her environmental cousin, the Sierra Club. In June the DRBC approved a request by New Fortress Energy to build a $96 million 1,600-foot-long pier on the Delaware River (see DRBC Approves New Fortress LNG/NGL Shipping Dock on Dela. River). After being hounded (and threatened) by Riverkeeper and the Sierra Club for months over that approval, DRBC voted last week to “reconsider” its earlier decision. Their true colors shine through.
Read More “DRBC Reconsiders New Fortress LNG/NGL Shipping Dock on Dela. River”
A company we hadn’t previous heard of (Eco-Energy) has purchased a large natural gas gathering pipeline system and processing plant in southern Appalachia that we also hadn’t heard of (Stone Mountain). What we had heard of is the contracted customer who uses the Stone Mountain Gathering System: Magnum Hunter Production (now part of Montage Resources). At first blush this appears to be a gathering system for conventional wells, but after digging, we’re not so sure.
Read More “Eco-Energy Buys 600-Mile Gas Gathering System in KY, TN & VA”
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is obviously populated with leftist climate warriors, hellbent on blocking any new fossil fuel projects in the state. Last November Equitrans (formerly EQT Midstream) filed an application to extend the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline that stretches from Wetzel County, WV to the Transco Pipeline in Pittsylvania County, VA *another* 70+ miles south–into North Carolina–called the MVP Southgate project (see EQT Makes it Official, Files with FERC to Extend MVP into NC). NC DEQ is doing anything and everything it can to stop Southgate.
Read More “Politicized NC Regulators Object to MVP Southgate Pipe Expansion”
A third regional natural gas utility company in Massachusetts has adopted a moratorium blocking new gas customers from connecting to their system. Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department (Middlesex County) has just issued a ban on the installation of natgas services to multi-family homes, apartment buildings and condominium buildings. No new pipelines to Massachusetts? No new gas customers. That’s the new reality spreading across the Bay State.
Read More “Another Mass. Utility Slaps Moratorium on New NatGas Customers”
What appears to be an organized, ongoing effort to stop legal construction activity for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) continues in both Virginia and West Virginia. Out-of-state (paid) protesters chain themselves to equipment and block roads in a “death by a thousand cuts” approach to prevent the completion of the 85% completed MVP project. Is it time to bring racketeering charges against the groups and people behind these activities? We think it is.
Read More “Out-of-State, Paid Protesters Continue to Hassle MVP in WV, VA”
Two of the eight Pennsylvania House bills that are part of an initiative called Energize PA have been voted out of the PA House State Government Committee. Both bills, House Bill (HB) 1106 and 1107, are aimed at streamlining and speeding up the permitting process at the semi-dysfunctional Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP). Enviro-leftists are spitting nails and hopping mad. These bills have momentum and now go to the full House for a vote.
Read More “PA House Committee Approves 2 Bills to Fix Sloooow DEP Permits”