Maryland Issues Permit for Natural Gas Pipe Under Pocomoke River
The Pocomoke River runs 66 miles from southern Delaware through a series of relatively inaccessible wetlands called the Great Cypress Swamp in southeastern Maryland, eventually emptying into the Chesapeake Bay. In something of a surprise (for us), the three-member Maryland Board of Public Works yesterday approved issuing a permit to Chesapeake Utilities that allows the company to install a natural gas pipeline by horizontally drilling under the Pocomoke River. This is the same three-member Maryland Board of Public Works that has, for years, blocked Columbia Gas from installing a pipeline the same way under the Potomac River (see Fed Judge Upholds Maryland Decision to Block Pipe Under Potomac). Does anyone else smell big, fat, corrupt hypocrites in Maryland?
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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.”
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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!
A new Bank of America Global Research report calls the so-called Biden Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) the most important, and largest, federal green energy and climate package in U.S. history. It also says rather than reduce inflation, the IRA will increase inflation because government spending will increase, regulations will restrict supply chains, and the result is that prices, especially for energy, will soar. The IRA is another sterling example of why the free market (capitalism) is preferred over government command-and-control (Communistic) intervention.
Yesterday both Antero Midstream (the pipeline subsidiary of Antero Resources), and Crestwood Equity Partners announced a deal to sell Crestwood’s remaining Marcellus assets to Antero for $205 million. The assets include 72 miles of dry gas gathering pipelines and nine compressor stations with approximately 700 MMcf/d of compression capacity located in Doddridge County and Harrison County in West Virginia.
Pat McDonnell, who was Tom Wolf’s Secretary of the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) until July 2nd, has just become the President and CEO of a major PA anti-shale environmental group–PennFuture. McDonnell’s appointment at PennFuture raises disturbing questions about some of the decisions he made during his tenure at DEP. That McDonnell immediately became employed by one of the biggest detractors of and litigators against the DEP indicates McDonnell may have had an anti-drilling agenda and deep conflicts of interest while he served at the DEP. Was McDonnell a wolf in sheep’s clothing (no pun intended)? Was McDonnell Big Green’s inside man at DEP? Will there be an investigation of McDonnell and the decisions he made as head of the DEP? We certainly hope so.
Last week EQT Corporation confirmed it is buying Tug Hill’s THQ Appalachia operation with major assets in West Virginia for $5.2 billion (see