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  • Crime | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Minuteman Environmental Services | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA | Wastewater

    PA’s Anti-Drilling AG Charges Minuteman with Enviro Crimes

    June 9, 2014June 9, 2014

    It only took PA’s anti-drilling Attorney General, Kathleen Kane, 13 months to investigate Minuteman Environmental Services for alleged crimes against the environment. MDN told you about a raid on Minuteman’s headquarters in May 2013 by the PA Attorney General’s office, along with agents from the PA DEP, FBI and IRS (see Shale Environmental Services Company Raided by PA AG’s Office). At the time Kane would not say why they were raided–what the alleged charges were. Last week she finally charged not only CEO Brain Bolus, but even his father and mother (wow is Kane vicious)…
    Read More “PA’s Anti-Drilling AG Charges Minuteman with Enviro Crimes”

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

    Anti-Drilling Protesters Shut Down OH Injection Well – 1 Arrested

    June 9, 2014June 9, 2014

    old hippie laneTwo protesters from the lawless (and radical) Appalachian Resist! organization in Athens County, OH blocked trucks from entering a law-abiding injection well transfer station last week, effectively shutting down the K&H injection well in that area for most of one day. Lawless protester 42 year-old Crissa Cummings and lawless protester 71 year-old Peggy Gish (old hippies?) prove that stupid is no respecter of age. Cummings chained herself to a fence and was arrested. Gish was slapped on the wrist and sent home to make tea and cookies for the grandkids (but should have been jailed). Here’s how the lawless Appalachian Resist! reported it, followed by an adult analysis of what really happened…
    Read More “Anti-Drilling Protesters Shut Down OH Injection Well – 1 Arrested”

  • Chesapeake Energy | Energy Companies | Industrywide Issues | Lease & Royalty Payments | Litigation | Michigan | Statewide MI

    Michigan AG (Unbelievably) Files More Charges Against Chesapeake

    June 9, 2014June 9, 2014

    Dang if the Attorney General Bill Schuette from Michigan isn’t determined to shake down Chesapeake Energy for a boatload of money. Apparently Schuette’s political future rests on being able to get something out of Chesapeake, who so far has been unwilling to bend over and take it. We’re referring, of course, to Michigan’s use of illegally obtained emails that allegedly show some sort of collusion between Chesapeake and Encana to obtain state land leases for drilling at a low price. AG Schuette has filed yet more charges in the case. The feds investigated and found nothing (see Feds Clear Chesapeake & Encana in Collusion Case, Michigan Next?). Usually a state will go along with a finding by the federal Justice Department. But not Schuette from Michigan. He has his heart set on grabbing a few hundred million from the “deep pockets” of oil and gas companies…
    Read More “Michigan AG (Unbelievably) Files More Charges Against Chesapeake”

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

    WV Reporter’s Dictation from Anti-Drilling Senator is Radioactive

    June 9, 2014June 9, 2014

    We’ve come to expect reporters from the mainstream media to lie and endlessly repeat debunked myths in an effort to throw as much “stuff” against the proverbial wall to see what will stick, and to confuse readers. But it’s not often a reporter from a smaller West Virginia newspaper turns in an “article” so completely wrong it’s breathtaking, as John Sheely from the Martinsburg Journal News has just done. But then Sheely was just “reporting” (cheerleading? snookered by?) the load of bull being offered by WV Senator Donald Cookman (D-Hamshire)…
    Read More “WV Reporter’s Dictation from Anti-Drilling Senator is Radioactive”

  • Economic Impact | Industrywide Issues | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Research | Statewide OH | Statewide PA

    OH Schools Save $60M, PA Schools Save $45.5M Last Year from Shale

    June 9, 2014June 9, 2014

    The American Petroleum Institute released a new study at the end of May titled, “The Unconventional Energy Revolution: Estimated Energy Savings for Public School Districts and State and Local Governments” (full copy embedded below). The study shows school districts and government offices have saved a boatload of money thanks to the ongoing shale revolution. BIG money. To further drive the point home and make it understandable, the API has released a number of press releases breaking down the numbers state by state. For example, the study says schools in Ohio saved $60 million on their utility bills last year thanks to shale, and Pennsylvania schools saved $45.5 million on utility bills last year thanks to shale…
    Read More “OH Schools Save $60M, PA Schools Save $45.5M Last Year from Shale”

  • Chesapeake Energy | Energy Companies

    Chesapeake Dumps More Assets: Crude Truck Fleet & 200 Employees

    June 9, 2014June 9, 2014

    Chesapeake continues to sell off bits and pieces of the company, in order to raise capital, reduce debt, and make boss man Carl Icahn even more rich than he already is. The latest thing to go is a fleet of trucks used to haul crude oil, ANOTHER 200 employees gone (along with the trucks), and a contract with the company buying both, which happens to be Rose Rock Midstream…
    Read More “Chesapeake Dumps More Assets: Crude Truck Fleet & 200 Employees”

  • Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Regulation | Statewide PA | Taxation

    Discussion over Geological Layers has Real Consequences in PA

    June 9, 2014June 9, 2014

    There’s a controversy brewing in Pennsylvania–over how to define what’s conventional and what’s unconventional in oil and gas drilling. It may sound like a boring exercise in obscure geological speak because it involves concepts like the Elk formation. The theological equivalent of “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” However, the outcome of this argument/controversy has the power to change the economics of drilling in PA and will impact drillers, landowners, and the state government (i.e. tax revenue). It’s a big deal and the outcome is vitally important…
    Read More “Discussion over Geological Layers has Real Consequences in PA”

  • About MDN | Calendar

    Calendar of Events for Jun 9-22, 2014 [Free]

    June 9, 2014June 9, 2014

    Below are upcoming events for this week and next.

    NOTE: To have an item included, please email it to: calendar@marcellusdrilling.com.
    Read More “Calendar of Events for Jun 9-22, 2014 [Free]”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Mon, Jun 9, 2014

    June 9, 2014June 9, 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: Mon, Jun 9, 2014”

  • About MDN

    A Rare Day Off

    June 6, 2014

    3 day weekendDear MDN Reader:

    Editor Jim Willis is traveling on Friday, June 6th and taking a rare day off (from writing)–therefore no regular stories. We will catch you up on all the latest news come Monday, June 9th. Have a great weekend and keep fracking!

    – Jim

  • CNX Resources | CONSOL Energy | Energy Companies | Meetings | Range Resources Corp

    DUG East Roundup from Day 1: Range, CONSOL, EIA, FERC

    June 5, 2014June 5, 2014

    roundupSeems that the Developing Unconventional Gas (DUG) East Conference, hosted by Hart Energy this week in Pittsburgh, is generating a lot of news. Unfortunately MDN could not attend DUG East this year. We have, however, done a roundup of interesting and important news from speakers at DUG, including news from CONSOL Energy, Range Resources, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)…
    Read More “DUG East Roundup from Day 1: Range, CONSOL, EIA, FERC”

  • Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA | Taxation

    PA Raises Another $225M with Impact Fee – List of Who Gets What

    June 5, 2014June 5, 2014

    Pennsylvania did it right when it came to taxing the shale drilling industry. PA Republican Gov. Tom Corbett crafted a part tax/part fee called the impact fee, part of the Act 13 law (which is now threatened to be overturned in court by seven selfish PA towns). The impact fee raises money from drillers. Some 60% of what is raised stays in the towns and counties where the drilling happens. The other 40% is a true tax–“walking around money” that greases the hands of Harrisburg politicians so they can dole it out in political patronage. Still, it’s one of the best systems of taxing drilling we’ve seen. On Tuesday, the latest results were released for who will get how much, by county and township (and other entities). We have the list below…
    Read More “PA Raises Another $225M with Impact Fee – List of Who Gets What”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Lebanon County | Pennsylvania | Pipelines | Transco | Williams

    Lebanon, PA Group Coaches Blind Followers to Oppose Pipeline

    June 5, 2014June 5, 2014

    The pattern endlessly repeats itself. A handful of people with an irrational hatred of fossil fuels turn their hatred on anything related to fossil fuels–like a much needed pipeline. Those same people can’t use objective evidence to support their views–they can’t even openly admit what motivates them for fear that they’ll lose support. So they begin a campaign to spread lies (i.e. “talking points”) to mind-numbed robots who can’t think for themselves. They pack a public meeting and all pretty much say the same thing–endlessly regurgitating the talking points handed to them. Many of them, MDN has observed, are old hippies–men bald on top with gray ponytails in the back. You laugh–but it’s true! They also enlist kindred spirits in young people who are frankly inexperienced and too stupid to know better. That pattern is repeating itself once again–this time in Lebanon County, PA…
    Read More “Lebanon, PA Group Coaches Blind Followers to Oppose Pipeline”

  • Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Wastewater

    New Texas Technology Cleans Frack Water Really Fast

    June 5, 2014June 5, 2014

    Frack wastewater is pretty big deal. Although many drillers recycle it, some don’t or can’t, and it ends up going back into the ground–via an injection well. How much better would it be to clean it up and re-use it? A Texas company is doing just that–with the help of Texas A&M University researchers. ARANA Water Technologies has innovated a new recycling process with some amazing results. Raw frack water goes in, and 26 minutes later the water coming out is 99+ percent free of petroleum hydrocarbons, and metals in the water like arsenic, aluminum, iron, and selenium have been reduced by 90+ percent. While this isn’t strictly a Marcellus/Utica story, we expect this technology will soon be available in the Marcellus/Utica and so is worth highlighting…
    Read More “New Texas Technology Cleans Frack Water Really Fast”

  • Allegheny County | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Pipelines | Supply Chain

    “Dumping” Leads to 177 Jobs Lost at PA Marcellus Pipeline Plant

    June 5, 2014June 5, 2014

    A strange and sad story. McKeesport (Allegheny County), PA has for many years been known as “Tube City” because of the steel pipes manufactured there by U.S. Steel. Some 157 steelworkers and 20 manager (177 total) were just told they’re being laid off by U.S. Steel. That plant in particular has been manufacturing steel pipes used in the shale drilling industry! The industry is going great guns and expanding like crazy–so why on earth are they laying off people? In a word, dumping…
    Read More ““Dumping” Leads to 177 Jobs Lost at PA Marcellus Pipeline Plant”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, June 5, 2014

    June 5, 2014June 5, 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: Thu, June 5, 2014”

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