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ET Makes Significant Progress Cleaning Up Marsh Creek Lake

While drilling in Chester County in August 2020 in the Marsh Creek State Park area, Energy Transfer’s (ET) Mariner East 2X pipeline experienced an “inadvertent return”–nontoxic drilling mud coming up out of the ground where it’s not supposed to (see Mariner East 2X Construction Causes Another Drilling Mud Spill). In this case, an estimated 8,100…

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PA EHB Dismisses Senator’s Request to Block Dimock Wastewater Plant

The Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board (EHB) partially dismissed a challenge brought by Philly-area State Senator Katie Muth. She seeks to block Eureka Resources from moving forward with the construction of a new shale wastewater recycling facility in Dimock, PA–a location hours away from her own district. The EHB ruled that Muth has no standing under…

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Radical Dems Make Another Stab at Smearing PA Fracking with Lies

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” (Quote attributed to Joseph Goebbels, the head of Nazi Germany’s Ministry of Propaganda) The left so often adopts the attitude if you keep repeating the same lie over and over–preferably the bigger the lie the better–the lie…

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PA DEP Secretary Pat McDonnell Leaving Agency July 2nd

The ship of the Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf administration is slowly sinking beneath the waves as Wolf is term-limited and out the door, exiting stage left at the end of this year. So it’s time for senior members of his administration to look elsewhere for other jobs and hop off the sinking ship before it…

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PA EHB Judge Rejects Request to Block Dimock Wastewater Plant

In March 2021, Eureka Resources announced plans to build a Marcellus Shale wastewater treatment facility in Dimock (Susquehanna County), Pennsylvania (see Eureka Building Marcellus Wastewater Recycling Plant in Dimock, PA). Both Susquehanna County and Dimock Township approved the Eureka project (see Town, County Approve Marcellus Wastewater Recycling Plant in Dimock). The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental…

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Mariner East Pipe Fulfills Promise as Southeast Pa. Economic Engine

As we told you last week, Energy Transfer, during its first quarter update, spoke about the now-completed Mariner East pipeline system that flows NGLs, including ethane, propane, and butane, from eastern Ohio and southwestern Pennsylvania all the way to southeastern PA and the Marcus Hook terminal (see Energy Transfer 1Q: ME Pipe Done; Possible Marcus…

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SEPA Dem Attacks NEPA Marcellus Wastewater Recycling Plant in Dimock

In March 2021, Eureka Resources announced plans to build a Marcellus Shale wastewater treatment facility in Dimock (Susquehanna County), Pennsylvania (see Eureka Building Marcellus Wastewater Recycling Plant in Dimock, PA). Yep, that Dimock, the one made famous by the lying Josh Fox of Gasland fame. Three weeks ago MDN brought you the news that both…

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PA Sen. Yudichak Calls Out Hysterical Dems at Hearing

Democrats are SO predictable. They use the same playbook they’ve used for the past 50+ years. The minute they can’t defend their indefensible, nonsensical ideologies, they resort to calling their opponents bigots and sexists. It happened again Tuesday when northeastern Pennsylvania State Senator John Yukichak, an Independent who used to be a Democrat (but couldn’t…

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PA DEP Names Replacement for Suddenly Gone O&G Head Scott Perry

One month ago MDN reported that Scott Perry, Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management at the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) since 2011, was suddenly gone, no longer an employee of the agency (see Scott Perry Suddenly Gone as PA DEP Deputy Sec for Oil & Gas Mgmt). No official reason was given…

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3 SEPA Legislators Ask AG Shapiro to Illegally Shut Down ME2 Pipe

What is it about leftist Democrats that compels them to want to control everyone else’s lives (but their own)? Pennsylvania State Sen. Katie Muth is one of the worst offenders of this disorder. So too are PA State Rep. Dianne Herrin and Rep. Danielle Friel-Otten. The trio of Dem ladies are asking the odious PA…

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Bitter Antis Admit Defeat – ME2 Pipeline to be Completed in 1Q22

In early December the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) agreed to allow Energy Transfer to change the way it will install the Mariner East 2 (ME2) pipeline in the Marsh Creek Lake area in Chester County, PA (see PA DEP Approves ME2 Plan to Finish Pipe Thru Marsh Creek Lake Area). Two weeks later…

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PA DEP Approves ME2 Plan to Finish Pipe Thru Marsh Creek Lake Area

Yesterday MDN brought you the news that the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) along with the state Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) jointly fined Energy Transfer’s Mariner East 2 (ME2) pipeline project $4 million and is requiring it to perform another $4+ million worth of work at Marsh Creek Lake where construction…

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Antis Out of Options After Latest PUC Ruling re Mariner East Pipe

Is the glass half empty, or half full? Last Friday MDN told you that the Pennsylvania State Public Utility Commission (PUC) issued a list of 14 new requirements for the Mariner East Pipeline projects, for all three pipelines–ME1, ME2, and ME2X (see PA PUC Continues to Dump on Mariner East Pipes – 14 New Todos)….

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PA Senate Committee Letter Asks IRRC to Reject RGGI Carbon Tax

On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee approved a letter to the state’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC), asking the IRRC to oppose the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), an obscene carbon tax aimed at closing down coal and natural gas-fired power plants in the state. Democrats on the committee railed against…

Other Stories of Interest: Thu, May 27, 2021

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Muth and mouth disease spreading through Pennsylvania capitol; NATIONAL: Exxon Mobil loses board seats to tiny hedge fund; Liberal media ignore ethics and electric concerns at Biden Energy Department; Biden looks abroad for electric vehicle metals, in blow to U.S. miners; INTERNATIONAL: Air France-KLM completes eight-hour flight powered by used cooking oil; WoodMac:…

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PA AG Unveils Anti-Shale Legislation Based on Flawed Grand Jury Rpt

In theater of the absurd, yesterday a bunch of sleazy politicians, headed by the grandmaster sleazoloa himself, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, unveiled proposed new anti-Marcellus legislation based on a ginned-up, fake anti-shale grand jury report that Shapiro manipulated and orchestrated last year (see PA AG Launches I-HATE-FRACKING Hotline; Report Bashing Shale, DEP). The legislation…