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  • Industrywide Issues | NG Vehicles

    UPS to Grow NG Fleet with Additional 700 LNG Tractor Trailers

    April 25, 2013April 25, 2013

    Hats off to UPS—the shipping company that’s probably made a delivery to your business or home within the past week. A week doesn’t go by that MDN HQ doesn’t get a delivery from the big brown truck! UPS currently has a fleet of 2,600 alternative fuel vehicles—running on everything from electric to biomethane. They’re adding another 700 new vehicles to that number—all of them liquefied natural gas (LNG) tractor trailers. UPS will also build four private refueling stations as part of the program—three in Tennessee and one in Texas.

    LNG is different from CNG, or compressed natural gas. LNG is natural gas cooled to the point it becomes a liquid and is typically used in long haul vehicles, like tractor trailers. CNG is typically used in passenger vehicles and short haul trucks. Here’s the announcement from UPS about growing their long haul fleet using LNG:

    Read More “UPS to Grow NG Fleet with Additional 700 LNG Tractor Trailers”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    April 25, 2013April 25, 2013

    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, Apr 25, 2013”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Meetings

    Postmortem: Video Shows Tribeca/Josh Fox Lied, Censored Farmers

    April 24, 2013April 24, 2013

    liar It’s not worth a lot more in the way of “ink”—but it is worth a final post to show how the anti-fracking side simply lies when it suits them. On Sunday, FrackNation creator/director Phelim McAleer and about 20 farmers from Pennsylvania and upstate New York shouted questions to Josh Fox and the freakish Yoko Ono as they entered the debut of Gasland Part Deux at the Tribeca film festival in New York City. The questioners were barred from entering, even though they had paid for and secured tickets (see Upstate NY Farmers with Tickets Barred from Gasland 2 Premier).

    Although Tribeca now claims the theater was full (do they now oversell tickets for movies like they do for airplane seats?), Phelim captured the real reason they were not admitted—on film (see it below)…

    Read More “Postmortem: Video Shows Tribeca/Josh Fox Lied, Censored Farmers”

  • Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | New York | Regulation | Statewide NY

    Video: Martens Riffs on Why NY Fracking Decision Taking So Long

    April 24, 2013April 24, 2013

    New York Commissioner of the Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Joe Martens, was questioned by Gannett reporter Jon Campbell on Monday about the status of New York’s fracking decision. Below is Campbell’s summary of that conversation, and a video of the interview, so you can hear and see Martens in his own words.

    Bottom line: Martens and State Health Commissioner Nirav Shah are running interference for their boss, Andrew “Ditherer” Cuomo–giving him time to make up his mind. In the meantime, Martens and Shah are riffing (making it up as they go) when asked to defend why it’s taking so long. Give the video a watch…

    Read More “Video: Martens Riffs on Why NY Fracking Decision Taking So Long”

  • Anadarko | Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Bradford County | Energy Companies | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Lycoming County | Pennsylvania | Sullivan County

    Manufactured Controversy over Drilling in Loyalsock State Forest

    April 24, 2013June 6, 2013

    A new manufactured “controversy” is being ginned up by PA Democrat officials and anti-drillers over Anadarko Petroleum’s plan to drill on land they legally own the mineral rights to—25,000 acres in Loyalsock State Forest that covers parts of Lycoming, Sullivan and Bradford counties in PA. Here’s the first time we’ve heard this phrase: The forest contains a “critical bird nursery.” I mean, who could possibly drill in a nursery? Drilling will also happen underneath part of the Old Logger’s Path—not the New Logger’s Path, not the Plain and Simple Logger’s path, but the Old Logger’s Path. And drilling may include portions of the exceptional value stream known as Rock Run. We wonder, are other streams unexceptional? And (OMG!) it may include the lumber ghost town of Masten. DO NOT disturb ghosts—they don’t like it.

    Isn’t language in an anti-drilling demagogue’s hands a marvel to behold?…

    [Please see an update/note at the end of this article.]

    Read More “Manufactured Controversy over Drilling in Loyalsock State Forest”

  • Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Regulation

    New Interior Secretary Jewell Says BLM Fracking Rules Coming Soon

    April 24, 2013April 24, 2013

    Newly approved Sec. of Interior, Sally Jewell, said on Monday that new rules for fracking on federal lands from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be out “fairly soon.” She also said “one size doesn’t fit all,” apparently trying to assuage concerns by the drilling industry that the federal government is attempting a takeover of regulating fracking. She even claimed she was a fracker once upon a time…

    Read More “New Interior Secretary Jewell Says BLM Fracking Rules Coming Soon”

  • Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Regulation

    Harvard Law School Says FracFocus "Fails" as Compliance Tool

    April 24, 2013April 24, 2013

    The online national hydraulic fracturing chemical registry called FracFocus was launched in April of 2011. Created and managed by the Ground Water Protection Council and Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, two organizations whose missions both revolve around conservation and environmental protection, FracFocus was created to provide the public access to reported chemicals used for hydraulic fracturing within their area. By all accounts it’s been a great success with most oil and gas drilling companies participating and supplying data about their drilling operations to the organization.

    However, yesterday FracFocus came under heavy criticism from the Harvard Law School who published a 16-page study (embedded below) that says FracFocus doesn’t go far enough—they say voluntary reporting by drillers is “spotty” and the trade secret provision that allows drillers to hold back some information is “overly broad.” The title of this “study” claims that, “FracFocus fails as a regulatory compliance tool.” HLS’ proposed fix? Bring in the feds…

    Read More “Harvard Law School Says FracFocus "Fails" as Compliance Tool”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | New York | Statewide NY

    The Fractured Reality (and Hypocrisy) of NY Anti-Drillers

    April 24, 2013April 24, 2013

    A perceptive MDN reader from the Buffalo area emailed to make an excellent point. He told us about a real, existential and present threat in western NY from an old nuclear waste dump called West Valley. Stick with us here—there is a point!

    There’s a very real possibility the nuclear waste stockpiled at West Valley may erode and be released into the environment within the next 150 years—and possibly much sooner if the area gets washed away by freak torrential downpours which seem to be occurring more regularly in the region. If that happens, nuclear waste may escape and pollute both Lakes Erie and Ontario, and with it, the drinking water for millions of people…

    Read More “The Fractured Reality (and Hypocrisy) of NY Anti-Drillers”

  • Industrywide Issues | M&A

    Big Money Spent on Marcellus & Utica M&A Deals for 1Q13

    April 24, 2013April 24, 2013

    A quarterly mergers & acquisitions report by PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP) shows the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions were respectively the second and third most popular locations for big M&A deals for the first quarter of 2013. Just three deals totaling $882 million happened in the Marcellus alone…

    Read More “Big Money Spent on Marcellus & Utica M&A Deals for 1Q13”

  • Energy Companies | Halcon Resources | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrialization | Industrywide Issues | Noise | Ohio | Trucking | Trumbull County

    Trumbull County Mobile Home Park Doesn’t Like Utica Drilling

    April 24, 2013April 24, 2013

    The down sides of drilling, if you happen to live close to a drill site, are noise, flood lights for working at night, and truck traffic. Residents of the Westwood Lake Mobile Home Park in Trumbull County, OH can attest to that. The good news is, drilling only lasts a short time—typically a month or less. Still, someone banging on your door at 3 a.m. in the morning is a bit much…

    Read More “Trumbull County Mobile Home Park Doesn’t Like Utica Drilling”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    April 24, 2013April 24, 2013

    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, Apr 24, 2013”

  • Energy Companies | Greene County (PA) | Industrywide Issues | Landfills | Pennsylvania | Rice Energy | Westmoreland County

    Marcellus Drill Cuttings Set Off Radiation Alarm at SW PA Landfill

    April 23, 2013April 23, 2013

    radiation A truck with Marcellus Shale drill cuttings entering a landfill in Westmoreland County, PA triggered a radiation alarm last Friday. The truck was quarantined and after finding that yes indeed, the cuttings were a tad too radioactive for disposal at the landfill, the truck was sent back to the drilling site in Greene County.

    The details:

    Read More “Marcellus Drill Cuttings Set Off Radiation Alarm at SW PA Landfill”

  • Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Public Opinion

    Pew Research Poll: Only Half of US Adults Know What Fracking Is

    April 23, 2013April 23, 2013

    A new national poll just released yesterday by the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine quizzed the Americans public on their knowledge of science and technology with questions on current topics and basic scientific concepts (see the full report embedded below). One of the questions on the quiz was this: Which natural resource is extracted in a process known as “fracking”? The multiple choice answers given: Coal, Diamonds, Natural gas, Silicon.

    Readers of MDN know the answer—you have a keen interest in the topic of natural gas. How many in the overall general public of adults 18 and older know that fracking extracts natural gas, even with Gasland and FrackNation? A pitiful 51%.

    Read More “Pew Research Poll: Only Half of US Adults Know What Fracking Is”

  • Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | New York | Regulation | Statewide NY

    IOGA of NY to Cuomo: Your Indecision is Killing ALL NY Drilling

    April 23, 2013April 23, 2013

    Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York (IOGA of NY) executive director Brad Gill and hundreds of other signatories sent a letter (copy embedded below) to Gov. Andrew “Ditherer” Cuomo yesterday to inform him that not only is his indecision on the fracking issue preventing new jobs and new companies from coming to New York, it’s also causing the existing drilling industry in the state to leave.

    Gill says the industry is “in crisis” and although it has been operating in NY for decades, it’s 5,000 direct and 50,000 indirect jobs are leaving the state in droves. Hey Andy, there is a cost to indecision…

    Read More “IOGA of NY to Cuomo: Your Indecision is Killing ALL NY Drilling”

  • BP | Energy Companies | Forced Pooling | Industrywide Issues | Ohio | Trumbull County

    ODNR Awards 2 New Forced Pooling Orders in OH – to BP

    April 23, 2013April 23, 2013

    The Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR) recently issued two new “unitization” (or forced pooling) orders, bringing the total number of unitizations to four that they’ve issued in the Utica Shale. Both of the new orders were issued on behalf of BP and both were in Trumbull County. Here’s the details of the two orders, including how much the reluctant landowners were awarded as a bonus and how much they’ll make in royalties:

    Read More “ODNR Awards 2 New Forced Pooling Orders in OH – to BP”

  • Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

    Anti-Drilling Eco-Nuts on Parade in PA for Earth Day

    April 23, 2013April 23, 2013

    In honor of “worship Mother Earth Day,” small groups of anti-drilling eco-nuts paraded themselves in front six different Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection offices around the state yesterday (see Protesters Rally Outside DEP Offices On Earth Day To Fight Marcellus Shale Fracking). They apparently don’t have jobs and do have lots of extra time on their hands to do such things.

    In contrast to the intentional know-nothings who oppose fracking, in honor of Earth Day, the American Thinker (great site by the way) published the account of an air pollution meteorologist who recently visited actively drilled well sites in southwest PA. Here’s what someone with a brain reports about what he witnessed:

    Read More “Anti-Drilling Eco-Nuts on Parade in PA for Earth Day”

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