Forest Service Caves to Radicals, Extends Comment Period for MVP
On Dec. 22, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) published a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement that allows the nearly-completed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to finish up construction through 3.5 miles of Jefferson National Forest straddling West Virginia and Virginia (see US Forest Service Floats New Plan to Allow MVP Thur Natl Forest). This is the THIRD time the Forest Service has issued the same permit. Two previous attempts were overturned by three clown judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The public had until Feb. 6th (yesterday) to file official comments on this latest plan. That is, until the bleating radicals moaned and groaned, asking for more time. So USFS extended the comment period another two weeks, until Feb. 21st.
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The Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee held a hearing yesterday in Harrisburg on the increasing energy costs that affect large and small businesses as well as homeowners. Several energy advocates, including Marcellus Shale Coalition President Dave Callahan, shared their thoughts and insights. High on the list of issues creating higher energy prices in the Keystone State are (1) the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, an obscene carbon tax), and (2) the ongoing issue of red tape from government bureaucracies like the Dept. of Environmental Protection.
Sigh. The Bidenistas are at it again–targeting the fossil fuel industry for extinction. The latest attempt came on January 9th when the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), which serves as the White House’s environmental policy arm, issued “interim guidance” to assist federal agencies in analyzing so-called greenhouse gas (GHG) and climate change effects of their proposed actions under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). One of the agencies affected by this guidance is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). However, FERC is an independent agency and does not necessarily march to the White House drummer. The question is, how much will the new CEQ guidance affect FERC’s policies as the agency evaluates oil and gas pipelines?
For almost a year, we’ve sounded the alarm about a coming change at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that will force publicly traded companies to disclose mythical greenhouse gas emissions data (see 
The Ohio Oil and Gas Leasing Commission, established in 2011 by a law signed by RINO Gov. John Kasich, is a five-member group designed to oversee drilling and fracking on state-owned land. After Kasich created it, he refused to appoint members, for years, to punish the oil and gas industry for not endorsing his plan to raise the severance tax rate. In 2017, under threat by the Republican legislature, Kasich finally relented and appointed the five members (see 
U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, Republican Congressman from Ohio’s 6th congressional district (in the Utica Shale part of the state), has introduced his first bill of the new session of Congress. The bill is called the Unlocking Our Domestic LNG Potential Act. It will allow domestic suppliers of natural gas, including LNG, to export our gas to allies in Europe and Asia after completing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) review process only–cutting out a requirement to have the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) also approve it. The DOE approval takes much longer (years) and has been a choke point. It’s time to end the delays. It’s time to get rid of the weakest link.
In a bid to prop up his in-the-toilet poll numbers, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (Democrat who voted to screw the country with the Inflation Reduction Act) has joined Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to introduce a new bill aimed at blocking the Bidenistas at the Consumer Product Safety Commission from using federal funding to ban new or existing gas stoves. Since it’s a Republican and a Democrat jointly sponsoring the bill, the bill is considered “bipartisan,” and we can jam that label down the left’s throat. However, even if all Republicans plus Manchin vote for it, we’re still one vote shy of passing it (plus Biden will veto it for sure).
On Tuesday, Freeport LNG, which has been out of operation since an explosion and fire in June 2022, asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permission to begin introducing feedgas back into one of three liquefaction “trains” (units) at the facility (see 
In early January, MDN told you that the Bidenista who heads up the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) floated a trial balloon to ban the use of natural gas stoves across the entire country (see 
A false and misleading story by the Associated Press spins all sorts of excuses for why the Bidenistas at the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not be able to do its job in tracking and enforcing reductions in fugitive methane. Donald Trump is one of the reasons, even though he’s been out of office for more than two years. According to the lying “reporters” of the AP, Trump “gutted” the EPA, and the agency doesn’t have enough help (wah wah wah). There aren’t enough satellites, either. And not enough drone technology. Not enough of this and not enough of that–even with the gazillions of dollars allocated to the agency. The truth that shines through the article is this: The Democrats, including Traitor Joe Manchin, passed a new law last year (the Inflation Reduction Act) that sets standards to reduce fugitive methane–and they have no practical way to know if those standards are being met. Isn’t that typical of the left?
Leftist top-down bureaucracies never work. NEVER. Socialism never works. Communism never works (at least in the long term). They all spring from the same poisoned root–arrogant elitists believe they know better than you how to run your life. They extinguish freedom. Example: The Bidenistas want to make decisions for you about which forms of energy you can and can’t use. They dream about a future where dirty, filthy fossil energy is no more. And they allocate trillions of dollars to make it happen. Then what happens? These egg-headed toads sit around and talk about it–and NEVER distribute the money! They hold endless Zoom calls. They require grant forms filled out in triplicate. And then, no money gets distributed. Welcome to Bidentopia.
Two weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee held a public hearing on energy access and affordability. As part of that hearing, Marcellus Shale Coalition president Dave Callahan gave testimony that a problem we’ve highlighted for years is still out of control. The state Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) (a) takes WAY too long to issue new permits for shale projects, (b) when it does issue permits, it is inconsistent in the standards used, depending on which area of the state, and (c) the ongoing permit delays and inconsistency are costing the state jobs.
We simply don’t understand the disturbed minds of the environmental left. Take the recent actions by the leftists at Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS), which is suing the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) after the DRBC adopted most of the rules sought by DCS to permanently block fracking and anything to do with fracking from the Delaware River Basin region. The radicals got 95% of what they wanted, but because it’s not 100%, they are suing in federal court to force the DRBC to start over and achieve 100% of their demands. This is seriously, pathologically, disturbed. We will explain.