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Franklin Park Tries to Block Fracking After Rejecting $1M+ Proposal
It appears the “leaders” of Franklin Park Borough in Allegheny County aren’t satisfied enough that they’ve rejected a free $1 million from PennEnergy Resources to drill under a town park (see Franklin Park Turns Down $1M+ to Drill Under Linbrook Park). Nope. Now they essentially want to ban fracking in the borough by passing an onerous new zoning ordinance.
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Despite setbacks from Big Green groups launching a blizzard of lawsuits and regulatory challenges, Equitrans’ (EQT Midstream) 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is now 70% built (see 
This news is a bit dated, but still interesting and is new for us: Last October a group of landowners in Tioga County, NY filed a lawsuit to force the NY Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to quit dragging its feet and set a date to consider the groups application to allow LPG (liquefied petroleum gas, i.e. propane) fracking for a shale well.
At the beginning of each new year the West Virginia legislature fires up its annual 60-day session. WV legislators are part-time and only meet for two months out of the year. (How we wish that were the case here in NY!) For a number of years running, the oil and gas industry’s legislative agenda has pushed certain new bills. This year is different.
In early December, the clown judges of the Fourth Circus Court of Appeals (our name for the Fourth Circuit) put a hold on a permit issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that allows the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline to get built through areas with so-called endangered and threatened species (see 
Bureaucracies move about as fast as the glaciers in Antarctica. It doesn’t matter where the bureaucracy is located–federal, local, or in this case, state government.
Ole Andrew Cuomo (pronounced Coo-moh by many people we know) is facing a classic Catch-22 situation. He has long promoted and earnestly wants a new arena as the home for the New York Islanders hockey team, but unless he allows a new natural gas pipeline under New York bay, he’s not going to get it.
A month ago MDN told you that EQT Midstream’s (now Equitrans) 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from West Virginia to southern Virginia is now 70% done (see 
In typical lib Dem thinking, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf thinks he can wave his magic Executive Order wand and lower so-called greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide and fugitive methane) to help save Mom Earth.
New England refuses to build new natural gas transmission pipelines to carry abundant, cheap, clean-burning Marcellus Shale gas to the region–and instead continues to rely on imported LNG from Russia and burning dirty fuel oil to generate electricity when the nights get really cold.