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30 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Sep 5-11
Last week the three states with active Marcellus/Utica drilling, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, issued a collective 30 new drilling permits, down from the 40 permits issued the week before. PA roared back to life by issuing 21 of the 30 permits, with OH issuing just three and WV issuing six.
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MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Protests, other actions planned for next week’s Pittsburgh climate summit; Ohio to use $25 million in federal funds to cap orphaned wells; NATIONAL: Denying access to energy…the new normal?
Here we go again. Just a few days ago, the benchmark NYMEX price for natural gas (the “front month” contract for October) was trading below $8/MMBtu. Yesterday the price spiked up 10% in a single day–up 83 cents to $9.11. This was the 11th time this year the NYMEX price has either spiked or fallen by 10% or more, which hasn’t happened since 2001, when it spiked or fell 10% or more for 14 days. The watchword is volatility. Wild swings. The question is, Why did the price spike yesterday in particular? We have an answer.
Last week MDN brought you the latest U.S. Energy Information Administration “Short-Term Energy Outlook” for September (see 
Pennsylvania is stubbornly continuing to pursue a $2 billion hydrogen hub (part of the Biden infrastructure bill) on its own, without partnering with other Marcellus/Utica states. As we continue to point out, doing the application process alone jeopardizes attracting the project to our region. Yesterday the Pennsylvania House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a public hearing on hydrogen’s potential as an energy source. The opening presenter, Richard DiClaudio, president and CEO of the Energy Innovation Center Institute in Pittsburgh, made the case that hydrogen and the hydrogen hub is important to the future of southwestern PA.
You’ve heard mainstream media and the Democrat Party’s attempt to brainwash you by renaming the millions of illegal, invading aliens crossing our southern border as “undocumented immigrants” or other laughable labels. The name change seems to have worked so well, it’s now being used by the government’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) with oil and gas wells. Ever hear of an “undocumented” oil/gas well? For most of us, they’re known as orphaned or abandoned wells. NETL is calling them undocumented because, well, there’s no official documentation that shows where they are located. NETL is hitting the road–to western New York State–to “find and characterize undocumented orphaned oil and gas wells.”
Since the beginning of Joe Manchin’s so-called “side deal” to vote on a bill that will reform the permitting process for infrastructure projects including the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), Republicans in the Senate (and House) have called on Manchin and Chuck Schumer to release actual language of the bill that will be voted on. You know, release it at least a week or two before it gets voted on, instead of two hours before (which is the Democrats’ typical routine). So far, NOTHING from Manchin and Schumer. So on Monday, Manchin’s fellow U.S. Senator from West Virginia, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, introduced her own version of a permitting reform bill. The bill has the support of 45 Republican Senators so far (38 of them co-sponsored).
Last December, Virginia’s newly-elected governor, Glenn Youngkin, said that as soon as he took office, he would use his executive power to withdraw Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (see 
On Friday, Paul Cicio, CEO of Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA), representing America’s largest manufacturing companies, sent a letter to Congress making the case that federal agencies (FERC and NERC) should have the responsibility to secure reliable and affordable access to natural gas, mainly through dramatic growth in pipeline infrastructure. The letter says FERC should be required to address any reliability concerns by expediting pipeline permits and promoting (not restricting) construction–potentially by asking for Presidential emergency powers!
We spotted an interesting article by Reuters that says big investment firms with a collective $39 trillion in assets under management are “urging” governments to phase out the use of fossil fuels. We know, it’s ludicrous and insane. You can’t phase out fossil fuels without essentially killing off humanity. But rational thought rarely enters the picture when political power is at stake. The entire global warming hoax is about political power. At any rate, the reason the article interests us is because the largest investment firms in the U.S. are NOT on the list of signatories!