Northeast PA LNG Plant Lives! NFE Tells FERC Still Wants to Build
Last year in March and then again in May, New Fortress Energy (NFE) confirmed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it plans to apply for updated permits to build an LNG export plant in landlocked northeastern Pennsylvania (see New Fortress Confirms Intent to Build Wyalusing LNG Export Plant). In June of last year was the last time we wrote about the Wyalusing (Bradford County), PA, project. We have GREAT news. In a pair of filings last week with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), NFE and its subsidiaries confirmed it still plans to build both the Wyalusing LNG export plant AND the docking facility in New Jersey along the Delaware River to load ships with the PA-produced LNG. NFE plans to truck the LNG from Wyalusing, PA, to Gibbstown, NJ. And that has antis up in arms.
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Here’s a story we became aware of several weeks ago but have not shared until now because we could not (still cannot) confirm some of the details. A tractor trailer hauling compressed natural gas (CNG) “from Pennsylvania” crashed into a low bridge in Glenville (Schenectady County), NY, near Albany, on Thursday, Dec. 21. The driver said he did not see the height warning signs and the top of the trailer hit a railroad bridge, exploding. The resulting fireball was some 200 feet high. The driver was seriously injured with third-degree burns and airlifted to Westchester Medical Center for treatment.
A press release out of Oslo, Norway, caught our attention. It was issued by Hexagon Agility, a business of Hexagon Composites. Hexagon said it had received an order from REV LNG for its TITAN Mobile Pipeline® modules — compressed natural gas (CNG) containers that get stacked on a trailer and hauled from point A to point B. REV LNG is a full-service supplier of liquid natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG) and renewable natural gas (RNG) specializing in development, production, supply, transportation, and distribution solutions. REV is headquartered in Mendon, NY, with major operations in Ulysses, PA.
We can’t resist a good railroad story. The American Shortline and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) has just recognized the 
The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced a consent order assessing a $600,000 fine against a trucking company that hauled drill cuttings from West Virginia and dumped them (without a permit) at several sites owned by the trucking company in Fayette County, PA. The unsanctioned dumping happened between the years 2012 and 2015.
MDN editor Jim Willis lives in the Binghamton, NY, area. While traveling local highways and local town roadways, he often sees XNG tractor-trailers passing through the area (like the one pictured at left). XNG (Xpress Natural Gas) is a “virtual pipeline” company, compressing and hauling CNG (compressed natural gas) to customers in the northeastern United States. The company has a major depot in Montrose, PA, not far from MDN HQ, compressing and then transporting Marcellus gas to customers that don’t have the benefit of using pipelined gas. XNG has just ordered more CNG trailers.
The 
National Grid is desperately trying not to run out of natural gas for its customers in Brooklyn and Queens (on Long Island). For several years the company has fought a battle to run a tiny pipeline to its Greenpoint, Brooklyn facility, to provide extra natural gas. That project is being investigated by the Biden administration on charges of racism (see 
MDN previously told you about so-called environmentalists filing a lawsuit to block the construction of an LNG unloading facility in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (see 
So-called environmentalists filed a lawsuit last week to block the construction of an LNG unloading facility in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. National Grid, a huge utility company that supplies natural gas to all of Long Island, including two New York City boroughs (Queens and Brooklyn), needs a way to inject more natural gas into its distribution system…or else. Or else during extreme winter weather events some folks will run out of gas for heating and cooking. Antis don’t care–until they’re the ones who run out.