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 goes completely beneath the waves. First up to flee is Dept. of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell, who has been Wolf’s patsy in attempting to force the massive RGGI carbon tax on the residents of PA. We wonder, who will be next? And why is McDonnell really leaving now, seven months before the end of Tom Wolf’s term?
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We’ve tackled the issue of why there isn’t more oil and natural gas drilling happening in the Marcellus/Utica and beyond even with prices for both commodities through the proverbial roof. Not that many years ago prices were a fraction of what they are now and yet the drilling industry would not, could not stop drilling new wells, flooding the market with product and crashing prices. Now, it’s the reverse! It seems nothing will incentivize drillers to drill any new wells beyond enough to keep production steady. Why? An article in the Wall Street Journal seeks to answer the question, definitively.
The world’s so-called leaders will meet in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 2-3 to commemorate the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and celebrate 50 years of failed global environmental action. It will be another attempt at establishing a Green World Order–subjugating all of humanity under the banner of “saving” us from global warming. It’s all a sham, of course. Stockholm+50, as it’s called, is the rise of the parasitic New Communism using the environmental movement as its host. Here’s something for the delegates at Stockholm+50 to consider and debate: How will the world react to half of its population, around 4 billion people, dying from starvation if fossil energy is outlawed?
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: SpaceX scrubs plan to build mini LNG plant; Hackberry Carbon Sequestration project launched at Cameron LNG in Louisiana; NATIONAL: U.S. retail diesel prices increase to over $6 per gallon in the Northeast; Lefties look to make grilling a little greener; INTERNATIONAL: Oil inventories down to dangerously low point; Extinction Rebellion starts fossil industry protests in Rotterdam; Ruble hits 5-year high as gas buyers bend to Putin demand.
In early 2013 the Pittsburgh International Airport and Allegheny County, PA signed a deal with CONSOL Energy (now CNX Resources) to lease 9,000 acres surrounding the airport for natural gas drilling (see 
In March 2021, Eureka Resources announced plans to build a Marcellus Shale wastewater treatment facility in Dimock (Susquehanna County), Pennsylvania (see 
Olympus Energy (formerly Huntley & Huntley) drills in the Greater Pittsburgh region, in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. Last year Olympus filed an application to build a new well pad in a rural part of Allegheny County, in West Deer Township. So-called “concerned citizens” got amped up to oppose the project. They succeeded when the Dionysus well pad was rejected by town supervisors (see 
Efforts by brave states like Texas and West Virginia in fighting back against companies like BlackRock who demand divestment from any activity involving the extraction of fossil fuels is having an effect. The divestors are beginning to squeal like little piglets. In June 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that bans state investments in banks, investors, and other companies that have cut ties with the oil and gas industry (see 
