Williams Using Context Labs to Certify Responsible NatGas Delivery
Drillers have their certification schemes to prove the natural gas they extract is “responsible”–meaning most if not all of the methane doesn’t leak as it’s extracted (see Who Certifies Responsibly Sourced Gas (RSG) & How Does it Work?). It seems that pipeline companies are developing their own specific certification schemes to ensure natural gas handed off to them by drillers is delivered as responsibly as it’s extracted out of the ground. That is, with little or no emissions escaping (like a fugitive) into the atmosphere where it supposedly warms the earth. Pipeline giant Williams announced yesterday it will use new technology developed by Context Labs to track and verify gas is responsible–from the wellhead to the customers who take delivery.
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Since the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine, we’ve read a number of articles about how American energy can reduce the impact of Putin’s war by supplying Europe with oil and natural gas. However, one such article appearing on Fox Business stands above all the rest. It’s well written and makes a strong case that Pennsylvania, specifically, has a critical role to play in helping to defeat Putin’s war on Ukraine. That role is ramping up Marcellus Shale gas production.
You can’t quantify it. Heck, you can’t even actually prove it’s happening. But the U.S. Securities and 
William S. Scherman worked as general counsel (the head lawyer) for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from 1990-1993, during the presidency of George H.W. Bush (the elder Bush). Scherman worked in FERC when Iraq invaded Kuwait. President Bush wanted options from FERC, asap, about what the agency could do to help alleviate an energy crisis being caused by madman Saddam Hussein. Sound familiar with what’s happening today? Back then FERC went on a “wartime footing” and relaxed rules that restricted the output of traditional and alternative electric generators and granted special permission for natural gas to be produced and transported flexibly and freely nationwide. Scherman says it’s time for FERC to go on wartime footing again.
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You might think that Toby Rice, son of Daniel Rice III who was, at one time (for over a decade), the single most successful and profitable mutual fund manager in the world, was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. You might think that everything was given to Toby Rice on a silver platter. You would be wrong. Prior to running the largest natural gas producer in the U.S., Toby Rice was, among other professions, a chimney sweep (cue the song from Mary Poppins, Chim Chim Cher-ee). He then swept floors for $9 an hour while he attended grad school to learn about fracking. Toby knows what it’s like to work (hard) for a living.
In the early days of the Marcellus and Utica Shale, a number of studies and predictions were made about how the industry would bring tens of thousands of jobs and inject billions of dollars into state economies. In Ohio, a Cleveland State University (CSU) report issued in 2012 predicted that Ohio’s then-growing fracking industry would add 66,000 direct and indirect jobs and $5 billion a year to the state’s economy by the end of 2014 (see 
In May 2021 MDN told you that Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) had won Kentucky state approval to build a new 12-inch, 12-mile pipeline near Louisville to supply gas to 62 homes and businesses that can’t connect to LG&E’s local natgas utility system (see 
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, refineries in the Greater Philly area are among the biggest importers of Russian crude oil in the U.S. President Biden recently slapped a ban on imports of Russian crude oil. So what happens to the Philly refineries that use it? Where will they get their oil from to keep operating?
The left is so predictable–no matter if they are here in the U.S. or somewhere else in the world. And the left never seems to change. Back in the late 1970s when failed President Jimmy Carter faced an oil shortage situation, he recommended people turn down their thermostats and wear sweaters. The left always operates from a “shortage” paradigm rather than an abundance paradigm. Today, history repeats itself. The leftists that infest the International Energy Agency (IEA) told us last year that new oil and gas exploration should immediately stop worldwide (meaning in the U.S.) to save Planet Earth from Global Warming monsters (see 
Cancel culture strikes again. The Evil Empire has won another battle (but not the war). MDN first told you about plans to build the Chickahominy Power Station, a 1,650 megawatt state-of-the-art natural gas-fired power plant in Charles City County, VA, in June 2018 (see 
The U.S. Energy Information Administration published an article yesterday pointing out that both petroleum (oil) and natural gas are and will continue to be the most-used forms of energy in the United States through 2050. In fact, both oil and gas use will continue to rise through 2050. This is completely contrary to the “renewables are almost here and fossil fuels almost gone” narrative peddled by the left. The EIA, now under the control of the Bidenistas, can’t ignore the truth. But here’s the larger story not told by EIA in its post, but evident in the chart used: Fossil energy will continue to be used four times as much as so-called renewables in 2050.