Finally a little good news for Dominion Energy’s 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline project: The Virginia State Air Quality Board voted yesterday 4-0 to approve a compressor station for the pipeline in Buckingham County.
Read More “Va. State Agency Approves Atlantic Coast Pipe Compressor Stn”
In February 2016, MDN told you about an exciting new market for Marcellus and Utica Shale gas that may open up one day in the Midwest (see New Midwest Pipeline to Tap REX’s Marcellus/Utica Gas). That day is coming–this year.
Read More “St. Louis Marcellus/Utica Pipeline Begins Construction”
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.
Read More “PA Gov. Wolf Issuing Exec Order to Lower Greenhouse Gas”
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.
Read More “New England Using Fuel Oil, Russian LNG to Survive Cold Winters”
Does Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey actually *want* citizens living in Boston to be denied natural gas to heat their homes in the dead of a New England winter? It sure seems that way.
Read More “Out-of-Control Mass. AG Tries to Block More NatGas to Boston”
Last Friday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a favorable environmental assessment for New Jersey Resources’ Adelphia Gateway pipeline project in the Philadelphia area.
Read More “Adelphia Gateway Pipe Enviro Assessment Approved by FERC”
On Wednesday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted approval to Williams to begin full service on their Transco Gulf Connector Expansion Project, flowing 400 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of natural gas to Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi LNG export plant (which is powering up now), and later this year, another 75 MMcf/d to the Freeport LNG export plant.
Read More “Williams Gulf Connector Goes Online – M-U Gas to Corpus Christi?”
The State of Maryland, via its rejection of a tiny 3.5-mile pipeline project that will travel under the Potomac River, is putting more than 6,000 natural gas customers and hundreds of jobs at risk on the other side of the river in West Virginia.
Read More “Maryland Pipeline Rejection Jeopardizes 6,000 Customers, Jobs”
We feel like a cad. Just yesterday we gently chided Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Kevin McIntyre that maybe he should consider stepping down if his health prevents him from casting important pipeline votes (see We Still have a Problem at FERC – Potential Deadlock in 2019). He died yesterday.
Read More “FERC Commissioner Kevin McIntyre Dies from Cancer”
Is anyone surprised that the $6 billion ethane cracker plant complex proposed by PTT Global Chemical for Belmont County, OH did not, as previously promised, announce a final investment decision (FID) in 2018? We sure weren’t.
Read More “Ohio Cracker Now has All Key Regulatory Permits – Still no FID”
We’ve said it before and will say it again: Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is a major disappointment. Somehow radical leftists have politically emasculated Hogan and now lead him around by the nose (see Maryland Gov. Hogan Pulls the Trigger, Commits Fracking Suicide).
Read More “Maryland Pulls a NY, Rejects Pipeline Under Potomac River”
If a single Republican (in name only) puts their name to a bill with 25 Democrats, that’s all it takes for fake news media to herald it as a “bipartisan” bill (or bills, in this case).
Read More “Philly Democrat & RINO Team Up to Intro 12 Anti-Pipeline Bills”
Last September the Ohio Supreme Court handed down a decision that requires oil and gas landmen working in Ohio to have a real estate license (see OH Supreme Court Rules Independent Landmen Need Real Estate License). The state legislature just overruled that decision.
Read More “New Law: Ohio Landmen DON’T Need a Real Estate License”
In early December, the U.S. Senate confirmed Bernard McNamee in a razor close 50-49 vote to become the fifth member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission–the third Republican member (see U.S. Senate Confirms McNamee to FERC with 50-49 Vote).
Read More “We Still have a Problem at FERC – Potential Deadlock in 2019”
It’s not often a vital pipeline project, no matter how small, escapes our attention–but this is one of those times.
Read More “NFG Building 4.5 Mile NatGas Pipe to Feed Shell Cracker Complex”
In January 2016, Invenergy announced their intention to build a natgas-powered electric plant in Elizabeth Township, in Allegheny County (see Invenergy Eyes SWPA for Second Marcellus-Powered Electric Plant).
Read More “Elizabeth Twp in Allegheny Co. OKs Invenergy Gas-Fired Plant”