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  • Accidents | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Pennsylvania | Regulation | Tioga County (PA) | Wastewater

    PA Attorney Gen. Kane Abuses Office Again, Arrest Warrant for EQT

    October 8, 2014October 8, 2014

    Last year Pennsylvania’s anti-drilling Attorney General, Kathleen Kane, abused her office and filed criminal charges against XTO Energy over a spill of fracking wastewater at a site in Lycoming County, PA that happened more than three years ago–long before she took office (see PA AG Abuses Her Authority, Files Criminal Charges Against XTO). In a Britney Spears “Oops!…I Did It Again” moment, Kane has filed a second case of criminal charges against a driller over an accident. Last week Kane filed charges against EQT over a leaky wastewater impoundment in Tioga County, PA. Yesterday the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection fined EQT $4.53 million–it’s highest ever fine–over the same incident (see today’s lead story). Kane is claiming that EQT polluted and disturbed PA waterways and committed misdemeanor crimes in the process…
    Read More “PA Attorney Gen. Kane Abuses Office Again, Arrest Warrant for EQT”

  • Greene County (PA) | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Seismic Testing

    Seismic Testing Company Behaves Badly in Greene County, PA

    October 8, 2014October 8, 2014

    The following story makes us very angry. Provided the details are accurate and true–we have no reason to believe they aren’t–Geokinetics (a seismic testing company) and Cougar Land Services (landmen) have behaved badly toward a landowner in Greene County, PA that didn’t want any testing done on his land. To be fair, the property owner does not own the mineral rights under his land and doesn’t know who does. However, neither the landman nor the seismic testing company that attempted to (in our opinion) trespass on his property to do the testing notified him that they had permission from the mineral rights owner. And even if they did have permission from the mineral rights owner, they should have handled the testing in a far different manner than they did. The following article is from PublicSource in Pittsburgh. Yes, PublicSource is largely an anti-drilling news organization–but provided the reporting is accurate, truth is truth, no matter where it comes from…
    Read More “Seismic Testing Company Behaves Badly in Greene County, PA”

  • Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Industrywide Issues | Pipelines | Statewide VA | Virginia | West Virginia | Wetzel County

    EQT’s WV to VA Pipeline Open Season a Success, FERC Filing in Oct

    October 8, 2014October 8, 2014

    In early September MDN told you that EQT and NextEra Energy were getting hitched–in a joint venture for the 330-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline project that will run from Wetzel County, WV to Pittsylvania County, VA (see EQT & NextEra Tie the Knot on WV-VA Pipeline Joint Venture). The happy couple, with EQT in charge, announced a binding open season for the proposed pipeline. Yesterday EQT said the open season has been successful with 2 billion cubic feet of capacity locked up in 20 year deals–but they’re waiting a few more days, until this Friday, before closing the door. EQT also said yesterday they expect to begin their pre-filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) later this month. Later this year they’ll begin open houses to discuss the project with communities where the pipeline will run. If everything goes according to plan, the pipeline will go online sometime around November 2018…
    Read More “EQT’s WV to VA Pipeline Open Season a Success, FERC Filing in Oct”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Washington County

    PPG Tries to Prop Up Discredited/Shamed PA Rep Jesse White

    October 8, 2014October 8, 2014

    You know that anti-drilling State Rep. Jesse White (Cecil, Washington County, PA) is in trouble when the Democrat editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes time to author an entire editorial to make excuses for his deranged behavior in attacking his own constituents by using fake online identities–pretending to be some of his own pro-drilling constituents and posting comments as them to make them look bad (see How the Mighty Have Fallen: PA Rep White Admits Guilt, Not Sorry). It’s sick, it’s unpardonable, and at a minimum unethical–perhaps even illegal. He should have been tossed out of office a year ago when it was exposed–but there you go. Behaving badly is a resume enhancer in the PA Democrat Party and now White’s fellow Dems on the editorial board of the PPG have to hold their noses and try to keep him in office with their lame “approval” of him…
    Read More “PPG Tries to Prop Up Discredited/Shamed PA Rep Jesse White”

  • Industrywide Issues | Regulation

    EPA Extends Comment Period for Power-Grab Under CWA

    October 8, 2014October 8, 2014

    The federal Environmental Protection Agency, as MDN reported in April of this year, continues to attempt grabbing away states’ rights for themselves. We told you about their attempt to redefine not just “navigable” but all waterways as being subject to the 1972 Clean Water Act (see Altoona Hearing on Latest EPA Outrage: Redefining Clean Water Act). If every piddly creek, stream, swamp and small river in every state is subject to the CWA, it’s then subject to the EPA and to Obama’s “imperial presidency,” as PA Congressman Bill Shuster calls it. The EPA announced they are extending the comment period on their latest outrageous power-grab proposal to Nov. 14th…
    Read More “EPA Extends Comment Period for Power-Grab Under CWA”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Crime | Industrywide Issues

    Anti-Drillers Don’t Like Being “Spied On” While They Do Bad Things

    October 8, 2014October 8, 2014

    When anti-drillers cross the line and trespass on private property, and then get called out for it, the squeal like a stuck pig (see NE PA Anti-Driller Slapped with Trespassing Injunction). Sometimes anti-drillers are more than loony, they’re dangerous to themselves and others (see Protesters Shut Down Anadarko Drill Site in Lycoming County, PA). Sometimes anti-drillers cross the line and engage in what we would call terrorist acts (see Protesters Get Violent, Shut Down OH Frack Water Plant). Is it any wonder that drillers and pipeline companies have to keep a sharp eye out for those who would do them–and their employees–harm? Is it much of a stretch that drillers and pipeline companies might pass along information to the authorities if they’re concerned? And how do anti-drillers respond? By claiming they’re being “spied on” and that the state police are colluding with drillers to hush up the so-called protesters…
    Read More “Anti-Drillers Don’t Like Being “Spied On” While They Do Bad Things”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, Oct 8, 2014

    October 8, 2014October 8, 2014

    The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading:
    Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, Oct 8, 2014”

  • Industrywide Issues | New York | Regulation | Statewide NY

    Second Look at New NY Law: Climate Change & Drilling Permits

    October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

    second lookLast week MDN reported on the recent New York “Community Risk and Resiliency Act” signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. We raised the issue that it may be a surreptitious way of controlling shale drilling when/if it’s allowed (see NY Law Back Door Way to Stop Widespread Shale Drilling?). The new law requires the state Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to take into account climate change and sea levels rising when making certain decisions and evaluating certain permits. We referenced one law firm’s take that “Applications and/or permits [for oil and gas drilling] received after the adoption of the Department’s guidance must comply with the law.” Our speculation was that maybe the law could be used to slow down or stop shale drilling. We’ve received a strong dissenting opinion on that view from another attorney, and from landowners in the Southern Tier area of New York, who have reviewed the law and find that, at best, the new law is dealing with storage tanks and not actual drilling permits…
    Read More “Second Look at New NY Law: Climate Change & Drilling Permits”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Statewide WV | West Virginia

    Wheeling Water Warriors Take on Drilling Under Ohio River in WV

    October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

    blue capeWith blue capes unfurled and their Spandex tights removed from deep in the back of the closet (and it’s not even Halloween for another three weeks), the aging hippies known as the Wheeling Water Warriors have found a new purpose (since GreenHunter still hasn’t built a barging facility in Wheeling, WV, confounding their life’s mission). That new purpose? To oppose fossil fuel extraction in the state–wherever it happens. Right now it’s a righteous cause to prevent drilling under the Ohio River. The Warriors are circulating petitions to try and stop the imminent deal West Virginia is set to make to allow one or more drillers to set up rigs at least a mile from the river, but allow them to extra oil and gas from beneath the river (more than a mile down) with horizontal drilling…
    Read More “Wheeling Water Warriors Take on Drilling Under Ohio River in WV”

  • Antero Resources | Energy Companies | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues

    Antero Resources Adopts Clean Fleet® Tech for Northeast Fracking

    October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

    Antero Resources, a major driller in both the Marcellus and Utica Shale, recently began using a new fracking technology from U.S. Well Services called Clean Fleet®. U.S. Well Services is making some pretty big claims with their new technology: significant cost savings for drillers (up to $40,000 per day!), a 99% reduction in air emissions and a “dramatic” decrease in the noise pollution. Certainly sounds like a winner! Here’s the announcement that Antero is now using Clean Fleet® for fracking…
    Read More “Antero Resources Adopts Clean Fleet® Tech for Northeast Fracking”

  • Antero Resources | Energy Companies | Harrison County | Industrywide Issues | Wastewater | West Virginia

    Antero’s Frack Wastewater Cleaned/Recycled by WV Startup

    October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

    Chance Richie is a former officer on a U.S. nuclear submarine and the CEO and founder of Shalewater Solutions–a company started in 2011 that cleans and recycles frack wastewater in the Marcellus and Utica Shale. Richie’s company, located in Harrison County, WV, has landed one of the biggest drillers in the Marcellus/Utica–Antero Resources. The key to Shalewater’s approach is the fact that all wastewater is not the same. The chemical composition changes from driller to driller, site to site, and shale play to shale play…
    Read More “Antero’s Frack Wastewater Cleaned/Recycled by WV Startup”

  • Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | MarkWest Energy | Pennsylvania | Pipelines | Washington County

    Cecil Supervisors Vote to NOT Appeal MarkWest Compressor Decision

    October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

    Last week ago MDN told you about the victory for MarkWest Energy in Cecil Township (Washington County), PA. A Commonwealth Court judge has ruled Cecil must and will allow MarkWest to build a compressor station in an area clearly zoned for it under Cecil’s own rules–a station they’ve been trying to build since 2010 (see MarkWest Wins Court Case to Build Compressor Station in Cecil, PA). As with all things legal, the question then became–will Cecil appeal the ruling to a higher court in hopes of further delaying the inevitable? That question was partially answered last night. Cecil’s board of supervisors voted 3-2 against appealing the decision–meaning the town must now, as the judge ordered, grant a permit to MarkWest within 45 days (now about 38 days) to build the compressor station. However, there is one more storm cloud ahead for MarkWest…
    Read More “Cecil Supervisors Vote to NOT Appeal MarkWest Compressor Decision”

  • Bradford County | New York | Pennsylvania | Statewide NY

    Video: Whirlwind Tour of Shale Drilling in Bradford County, PA

    October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

    Let’s go on a quick pickup truck tour of Bradford County, PA, shall we? Anti-drillers always make veiled references to the “sacrifice zones” in Pennsylvania where there’s a lot of drilling. Places like Bradford County, PA–one of THE most drilled counties in the PA Marcellus Shale. We always say, “go look for yourselves!” The reality of what you will find when you tour the countryside in PA’s most-drilled counties is far different from what anti-drillers would have you believe. Recently the Empire Energy Forum (from New York) accepted an invitation from Bradford County, PA Commissioner Doug McLinko to visit and tour with him. They did, and produced a 6-minute video of their experience…
    Read More “Video: Whirlwind Tour of Shale Drilling in Bradford County, PA”

  • Industrywide Issues | Research

    Inconvenient Global Warming Fact: Avg Temp Hasn’t Risen in 18 Yrs

    October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

    We don’t take on the issue of global warming often because of the fervent, religious-like reaction of those who believe in it. Heavy doses of truth coming too fast may cause an aneurysm. However, the issue of global warming is often at the very center of opposition to shale drilling because shale drilling extracts a fossil fuel (natural gas) and burning fossil fuels is, irrationally, verboten for the so-called climate-change faithful. The theory is that burning fossil fuels pumps more carbon into the atmosphere where it gets trapped creating a greenhouse effect, causing earth’s temperatures to rise. Nice theory–the problem is the facts don’t match the theory. The big problem for warmists is that the earth’s so-called average temperature (we still haven’t figured out where they stick the thermometer for that one) hasn’t warmed now for 18 years–which, according to the Global Warming Policy Forum, is creating a “crisis of credibility” for scientists who pedal the man-causes-global-warming theory…
    Read More “Inconvenient Global Warming Fact: Avg Temp Hasn’t Risen in 18 Yrs”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Industrywide Issues | Ohio | Summit County | Wastewater

    Anti-Drillers Protest 2 RINO Governors at Fundraiser in OH

    October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

    So two RINO governors walk into a fundraiser…. It may sound like the setup for a political joke, but there was no joking when Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie both attended the Summit County, OH GOP fundraising dinner on Sept. 29th. Protesters met the RINOs as they walked in–to complain about (yes) shale drilling and using fossil fuels. Agitated and backed by the odious Food & Water Watch, along with the Network for Oil and Gas Accountability and Protection (NEOGAP) and FaCT (Faith Communities Together for fracking awareness), the protesters on that day were specifically complaining about frack wastewater and Class II injection wells…
    Read More “Anti-Drillers Protest 2 RINO Governors at Fundraiser in OH”

  • Electrical Generation | Industrywide Issues | Research

    Coming Change from Coal to Natgas to Power Electric Plants

    October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

    Consulting firm ICF International is out with their fourth quarter ICForecast Energy Outlook in which they look at U.S. energy markets and the impact of regulations, prices and the availability of various energy sources over the near-, medium- and long-term. ICF is, of course, attempting to sell their service to government and corporate customers. We don’t have a copy of the full report, but we do have their press announcement which contains some very interesting high-level numbers that caught our eye. Among them is the amount of electricity generated by coal that is due to go offline over the next few years due to draconian new rules established by the overreaching federal Environmental Protection Agency. The amount of gigawatts due to go offline is…
    Read More “Coming Change from Coal to Natgas to Power Electric Plants”

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