Finland Providing Tech for Gas Peaker Plant in Madisonville, KY
In August, MDN told you about a tiny new gas-fired power plant coming to Kentucky (see Gas Peaker Planned for Madisonville, KY to Aid Unreliable Renewables). The Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency (KYMEA) and the City of Madisonville announced the development of the KYMEA Energy Center I, a 75-megawatt peaker natural gas electric generating facility to be located in Madisonville. The facility will supplement (make possible) unreliable renewable energy that can’t meet sudden increases in demand for electricity. We have some details about the technology that will be used in the plant—tech that will come from Finland, of all places. Read More “Finland Providing Tech for Gas Peaker Plant in Madisonville, KY”
For those of a certain age (or who like to watch reruns), do you remember that iconic song and TV series, The Love Boat? Sing along with us: “The love boat soon will be making another run. The love boat promises something for everyone. Set a course for adventure, your mind on a new romance…” Princess Cruises is the operator of the ships featured on the Love Boat TV show. The company announced yesterday that finishing work has begun in Italy on its second LNG-powered cruise ship. The Star Princess is due to be based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and will set sail in the fall of 2025. 
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Digging deep to understand rural opposition to solar power; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Category 3 Hurricane Helene nears landfall, disrupts energy infrastructure; NATIONAL: Harris’ bait and switch on fracking; Shock election forecast gives Trump 11 point lead over Harris; INTERNATIONAL: OPEC+ confirms it has no specific price target for crude oil; Oil sinks amid Saudi output plans and Libyan oil revival; Oil prices to stay depressed through 2025 on global oversupply; Agencies reveal new framework to measure progress on methane reduction; The EU tries to extend its ESG regulatory reach to the U.S. 
Last week, MDN told you the time was finally right for BKV Corporation (Banpu Kalnin Ventures), the American arm of Banpu, Thailand’s largest coal mining company, to launch an initial public offering (see 
In July, MDN brought you the news that the largest natural gas producer in the country, EQT Corporation, totally focused on drilling in the Marcellus/Utica, was still curtailing (intentionally reducing) some of its M-U production through the second half of 2024 (see 
EQT CEO Toby Rice has been in New York City for the city’s so-called Climate Week. Rice (EQT) is a member of the Partnership to Address Global Emissions. Bloomberg is reporting on several comments made by Rice that are intriguing and insightful—comments about the coming important role of AI data centers, when the price of natural gas may begin to rise again, and just how high the price may hit. Buckle up as we crawl inside the head of Toby Rice… 
The Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline (owned by Enbridge) transports up to 3.09 Bcf/d of natural gas through 1,131 miles of pipeline. Algonquin connects to Texas Eastern Transmission (TETCO), Millennium Pipeline, and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline and supplies New England with critically needed natural gas supplies for power generation and consumer use. As we told you in September 2023, Enbridge conducted an open season to gauge interest in expanding Algonquin’s capacity to flow more gas into New England — mainly from the Marcellus/Utica — called Project Maple (see 
CNX Resources released its first Radical Transparency™ assessment report in August (see 
A gigantic 91,000-square-foot facility that turns cow poop into CH4 (methane) is set to begin construction, possibly in October, near Seneca Lake in Ontario County, NY. Yes, the beautiful countryside of Upstate New York will soon produce methane, and it will be near the largest of NY’s bucolic Finger Lakes. The facility will use the manure from 12 local dairy farms with a combined 11,000 cows to extract methane through an anaerobic digester process. The methane would then be converted into natural gas and injected into a nearby NYSEG (New York State Electric & Gas) pipeline. Wait…where’s anti-fossil fueler Sandra Steingraber from Ithaca College? Where’s anti-fossil fueler Robert Howarth from Cornell University? They both begin to froth at the mouth whenever the word “methane” is uttered publicly or privately anywhere in Upstate New York! Yet they, and groups like Food & Water Watch, the Sierra Club, and a host of other Big and Little Green groups are completely silent about this plant that will see 91 truckloads of cow poop coming and going each and every day at this plant—12 hours a day. All to produce (gasp!)…METHANE. 
The European Union’s idiotic methane regulations will soon come into full force, prompting oil, gas, and coal companies to monitor, measure and report their emissions. The same restrictions will also apply to energy imports coming from other countries, including the U.S. (see 
According to Ronald Stein, an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT (Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, a Washington, D.C. think tank), and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book, “Clean Energy Exploitations,” energy policymakers in the U.S. (and elsewhere) do not understand that electricity and transportation cannot exist without products made from fossil fuels. Political bureaucrats and policymakers seem to be oblivious to humanity’s addiction to oil, as they are to these two basic facts…