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  • Industrywide Issues | Ohio | Regulation | Statewide OH | Taxation

    Ohio Legislature Sees Flurry of Shale Drilling Bills

    December 10, 2012December 10, 2012

    As the Ohio General Assembly comes to a close later this month (the end of their two-year term), Democrats have introduced a number of bills aimed at restricting the Utica and Marcellus Shale drilling industry in the state. Fortunately the Assembly is controlled by Republicans, so these bills will go nowhere. Still, it’s instructive to see what’s on Democrats’ hearts and minds, and possibly what the future holds if the political winds in Ohio change.

    Here’s the list of bills recently introduced, and a summary of what they would do:

    Read More “Ohio Legislature Sees Flurry of Shale Drilling Bills”

  • Industrywide Issues | Ohio County | Research | Wastewater | West Virginia

    WVU & Jesuit Univ Testing Ohio & Allegheny Rivers for Bromides

    December 10, 2012December 10, 2012

    Wheeling Jesuit University and West Virginia University are teaming up to study water samples from the Ohio and Allegheny rivers for the presence of bromides to see if bromides are coming from shale drilling wastewater discharges into the rivers. Bromides themselves are not toxic, but in sufficient quantities bromides can lead to the formation of cancer-causing trihalomethanes.

    The study is a precaution to ensure bromides, which are found naturally, are not coming from drilling activity (i.e. drilling wastewater discharges).

    Read More “WVU & Jesuit Univ Testing Ohio & Allegheny Rivers for Bromides”

  • Air Quality | Industrywide Issues | Ohio County | Research | West Virginia

    WVU & Wheeling Health Dept Conduct Marcellus Air Quality Study

    December 10, 2012December 10, 2012

    The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department and West Virginia University are together collecting data in the greater Wheeling, West Virginia area to see if drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale has a detectable impact on local air quality.

    Read More “WVU & Wheeling Health Dept Conduct Marcellus Air Quality Study”

  • About MDN | Calendar

    Calendar of Events for Dec 10-23, 2012 [Free]

    December 10, 2012December 10, 2012

    Below are upcoming events for this week and next.

    Read More “Calendar of Events for Dec 10-23, 2012 [Free]”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Mon, Dec 10, 2012

    December 10, 2012December 10, 2012

    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, Dec 10, 2012”

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

    University of Texas Goes Amish, Shuns its Own Fracking Study

    December 7, 2012December 7, 2012

    Breaking AmishThe University of Texas (UT) is the latest institution of “higher learning” to succumb to political correctness—they have withdrawn (censored) a previously published study that concludes hydraulic fracturing does not pollute groundwater. Science has gone out the door at UT like it did at the University at Buffalo, over the same issue. Professors and researchers issue a report, based on scientific evidence, that anti-drillers perceive as favorable to fracking—and the rabid anti-drillers form up like a pack of wolves and hunt down and academically kill anyone connected to the research and resulting report. “You say fracking doesn’t contaminate water, that there’s no scientific proof that it does (going against our orthodoxy)? You’re dead meat—we’re coming for you.”

    Thing is, the chief accuser, the alpha wolf who’s doing the hunting, is the Public Accountability Initiative (PAI). Who are they? An anti-fossil fuel organization funded in the background by ultra-leftist and financial markets manipulator George Soros (see this MDN story for background). Bloomberg and other mainstream media won’t touch that part of the story—the part that those doing the accusing are full of conflicts of interest themselves. That doesn’t fit the template narrative of their reporting.

    Read More “University of Texas Goes Amish, Shuns its Own Fracking Study”

  • Economic Impact | Exporting | Industrywide Issues | Research

    DOE Study: LNG Exports Under All Scenarios are a Good Thing

    December 7, 2012December 7, 2012

    The Dept. of Energy – Office of Fossil Fuels commissioned a research report earlier this year by the venerable NERA Economic Consulting. The study, released to the public yesterday and titled, “Macroeconomic Impacts of LNG Exports from the United States” (full copy embedded below), takes a look at liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the U.S. NERA considers multiple scenarios of low price/high price, low volumes/high volumes, etc., and concludes that there is no downside to exporting natural gas, and in fact, the more we export, the better.

    Why is this NERA report important? Because the DOE will  use it as part of their decision-making process about whether or not to approve requests to build LNG export facilities. There are currently 15 such requests before the DOE. If all 15 facilities were approved, it would provide for 8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas to be exported per year.

    Read More “DOE Study: LNG Exports Under All Scenarios are a Good Thing”

  • Education | Industrywide Issues | Pennsylvania | Statewide PA

    Philly Profs Discriminate Against $15K MSC Shale Scholarship

    December 7, 2012December 7, 2012

    Two professors at the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) continue to stir the pot of discontent at the school and have now involved their teacher’s union in an attempt to deny a few lucky students $15,000 in financial scholarships. Say what? Precisely correct. A professor that got his feelings hurt because he wasn’t in the announcement loop, and another professor who’s anti-fossil fuels, joined forces at CCP to oppose a new Energy Training Center at the college because the Marcellus Shale Coalition pledged $15,000 to help with scholarships (see this MDN story for background).

    Now the two malcontent profs have enlisted their fellow profs to sign on against it:

    Read More “Philly Profs Discriminate Against $15K MSC Shale Scholarship”

  • Athens County | Ohio | Utica Shale

    Samples Provide First Clue to Utica Underneath Athens, OH

    December 7, 2012December 7, 2012

    Although we don’t have a great deal of information about the Utica Shale in Athens County, Ohio, a recently drilled vertical well targeting the Medina sandstone formation reached all the way down to the Utica.

    Samples from that well give us some inkling of what may lie below Athens in the Utica layer, and whether or not the Utica would be productive in that area (hint: it’s good news):

    Read More “Samples Provide First Clue to Utica Underneath Athens, OH”

  • Columbia County | Economic Impact | Industrywide Issues | Jobs | Pennsylvania | Supply Chain

    PA Pump Manufacturer Invests $2.4M, Adds 50 New Jobs

    December 7, 2012December 7, 2012

    Yet another Pennsylvania manufacturer is expanding thanks to work coming in from the Marcellus Shale.

    K-Fab Inc., located in Berwick (Columbia County), PA is investing $2.4 million and adding 50 jobs to support a new product line for the Marcellus Shale drilling industry: pumps.

    Read More “PA Pump Manufacturer Invests $2.4M, Adds 50 New Jobs”

  • Broome County | Health Impacts | Hydraulic Fracturing | Industrywide Issues | New York | Research | Statewide NY

    Lupardo to Martens: What Happened to the NY Fracking Panel?

    December 7, 2012December 7, 2012

    Binghamton, NY-area Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, a Democrat who so far has been somewhat non-committal on the fracking debate, but who seems to now tilt firmly in the anti-drilling camp, sent a letter to Dept. of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens two days ago. Her letter essentially asks, “What happened to the fracking panel you appointed?” Lupardo is one of the members of the High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing Advisory Panel, a group appointed by Martens in July 2011. The panel has not held any meetings since December of last year (see this MDN story).

    Lupardo wants the panel to meet again so she can go on the record with her “concerns” about fracking and the health review under way now (see her letter to Martens below).

    Read More “Lupardo to Martens: What Happened to the NY Fracking Panel?”

  • Industrywide Issues | Jobs | Ohio | Statewide OH

    OH Gov. Kasich Continues Trash Talk Out-of-State Workers

    December 7, 2012December 7, 2012

    Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican and most of the time a good conservative, inexplicably continues his jingoistic talk about out-of-state oil and gas workers as “foreigners”—even though the companies who hire in his state have pumped more than $3 billion into his state so far.

    Kasich started that kind of trash talk earlier this year, in February, but he obviously still feels that way and reiterated it again this week:

    Read More “OH Gov. Kasich Continues Trash Talk Out-of-State Workers”

  • Carroll County | Chesapeake Energy | Energy Companies | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Ohio | Statewide OH | Tervita | Wastewater

    Chesapeake Hires Tervita Corp to Build OH Wasterwater Plant

    December 7, 2012December 7, 2012

    Calgary-based Tervita Corporation, an environmental and energy services company, has been selected by Chesapeake Energy to build a wastewater treatment facility in Carroll County, OH. Carroll is the epicenter of Chesapeake’s drilling in the Ohio Utica Shale. The facility will be used to recycle drilling wastewater from Chesapeake’s Utica drilling, as well as other water-related services.

    From the Tervita press announcement:

    Read More “Chesapeake Hires Tervita Corp to Build OH Wasterwater Plant”

  • Best of the Rest

    Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, Dec 7, 2012

    December 7, 2012December 7, 2012

    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: Fri, Dec 7, 2012”

  • Allegheny County | CONSOL Energy | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Lease & Royalty Payments | Pennsylvania

    Pittsburgh Airport Offered $44M Shale Drilling Lease Offer

    December 6, 2012December 6, 2012

    100bullsThe Pittsburgh International Airport is about to get a huge cash infusion from the shale drilling industry—and it’s not from more passengers passing through the terminal (although that’s happening too). The airport previously floated a request for bids to allow drilling on and under its 9,263 acres. Wednesday morning they opened bids from two drillers: CONSOL Energy and EQT. One bid offered twice the lease payment per acre of the other bid.

    Here’s the bid details (and a Marcellus and Utica Shale Databook lease offer map to provide context):

    Read More “Pittsburgh Airport Offered $44M Shale Drilling Lease Offer”

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

    Cuomo Visits Binghamton, (Non)Comments on Fracking Decision

    December 6, 2012December 6, 2012

    Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited New York’s Southern Tier region yesterday—specifically Binghamton—to get a first-hand update on the Southern Tier’s economic development plan. (Short version: our local economy is and has been in the crapper for years.) Gov. Andy was greeted by anti-drilling and some pro-drilling protesters. During a press conference, he was asked by reporters to comment on whether and when fracking would come to the state. His answer was non-committal—he’s a good politician that way.

    Here’s what he did, and did not, say:

    Read More “Cuomo Visits Binghamton, (Non)Comments on Fracking Decision”

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