Shale Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Sep 2, 2020
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Editorial: Biden’s confusing stand on fracking; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: California survey finds little evidence of methane emissions from abandoned wells; New report details benefits of natural gas for Tennessee families, and businesses–critical for recovery; Hearing begins on whether Vermont Gas pipeline was buried correctly; NATIONAL: Natural gas posts biggest monthly gain in more than a decade; Groups pressure Biden to exclude fossil fuel execs from team; INTERNATIONAL: S Korea’s 9 nuclear plants restarting Sep-Oct to pressure LNG demand.
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In early June an Obamadroid federal judge vacated a permit for the Weymouth compressor station, the last piece of Spectra Energy/Enbridge’s Atlantic Bridge pipeline project–a project which took years to build (see 
We don’t often see news about a Marcellus producer called Alta Resources. Alta was one of the first drillers we wrote about just after launching the MDN website back in 2009 (see 
What is wrong with West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice? Last week we told you about Justice trash-talking a proposed natural gas-fired electric plant planned for Brooke County (see 
Pssst. Hey buddy. Ya wanna buy an LNG cargo. Or three? Dominion’s Cove Point LNG export facility along the coast of Maryland liquefies and exports Marcellus Shale gas. Dominion has two customers who buy all of the LNG the facility can produce: Japan and India. GAIL, formerly known as Gas Authority of India Ltd., is looking to sell three upcoming LNG cargoes instead of shipping them all the way to India.
Sunoco Logistics Partners (i.e. Energy Transfer) was drilling horizontally underneath Snitz Creek in Lebanon County, PA for its Mariner East 2 Pipeline project when it experienced yet another “inadvertent return”–nontoxic drilling mud leaking out of a place where it shouldn’t. In 2018 the same thing happened and antis blew a gasket over a “spill” of five gallons (see 
Anti-fossil fuelers, like those who write for and edit the Scranton Times-Tribune, are still spitting and sputtering that an $800 million LNG liquefaction plant is going to get built in nearby Bradford County and that LNG from that plant is going to roll through the Scranton area on both rail cars *and* on trucks. New Fortress Energy is building the project, currently on pause until early next year (see 
In June 2017, the Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation (PEDF) won a case at the PA Supreme Court by the skin of their teeth (see 
In August 2014 the Utica Shale Academy (USA), a new high school dedicated to training workers for the Utica Shale industry, opened its doors in Columbiana County with 24 students (see 
It seems we are just now beginning to come out of the COVID-19 stupor. Folks are shopping a little bit more. Drive-in theaters are popping up on every corner. Camping has certainly made a big comeback. But there are still a few areas where normalcy has not returned–like in-person conferences and events. Until now, that is. Two important M-U events–
And that’s that! The first of 10 LNG (liquefied natural gas) mini-trains at Kinder Morgan’s Elba Island, Georgia export facility went online in December of last year (see