Yesterday CNX Resources, a big Marcellus/Utica driller headquartered in Pittsburgh, became the first Pittsburgh-area company (and the first M-U company) to hold an online “virtual” annual meeting. It lasted less than seven minutes!
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Last December MDN told you that even though NEXUS Pipeline, a $2.6 billion, 255-mile interstate pipeline that runs from Ohio into Michigan is built and has been fully online since November, the Coalition to Reroute NEXUS (CORN), along with the City of Oberlin, Ohio, filed yet another lawsuit (with the D.C. Court of Appeals) to nullify the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) original decision to approve the project (see CORNballs Return, Ask DC Court to Shut Down NEXUS Pipe).
Read More “Antis Continue to Use NEXUS Case in Effort to Emasculate FERC”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: ODNR approves Utica Shale permits for Columbiana County; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Sempra starts loading first Cameron LNG cargo; Colorado city OKs 6-month drilling permit moratorium; NATIONAL: Exxon shareholders reject resolutions on climate and splitting CEO, chairman roles; The Department of Energy referred to natural gas as ‘freedom gas’ in a press release; U.S. E&Ps cut costs in response to price decreases George Mitchell, hero to the world’s poor.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected hearing a case appealed from a lower court by a group of Lancaster County landowners who claim Williams and their Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline project abused eminent domain authority by building the pipeline before litigating (for years) how much money landowners should receive–landowners who refused to negotiate in good faith in the first place.
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In April MDN told you that Pennsylvania State Senators Camera Bartolotta (Washington County) and Pat Stefano (Fayette County) had beaten PA Gov. Tom Wolf at his own game by offering to pay for his so-called Restore PA plan, not by using a severance tax on shale production, but instead by allowing more shale drilling on PA state lands (see PA Senators Steal Wolf’s Thunder, Propose Drilling to Fund Goodies).
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In April, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who is pro-coal (because much of his personal fortune comes from coal), took a swipe at shale drillers claiming shale is responsible for the poor condition of roadways in the Mountain State (see WV Gov. Justice Blames Shale for Bad Roads, Wants Higher Taxes). The shale industry begs to differ.
Read More “Oil & Gas Industry has Already Spent $110M Fixing WV’s Bad Roads”
Pennsylvania Attorney General, Josh Shapiro, and the anti-drilling Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, continue their tag-team effort to criminalize and humiliate Range Resources. Shapiro, a sleazy politician, is investigating so-called environmental “crimes” committed by shale companies in a bid to boost his chances of being the next nominee to run for governor (see PA AG Investigates Shale Drillers for “Enviro Crimes”). One of Shapiro’s sham investigations is into Range Resources and the long-ago settled “Haney” court case. The Post-Gazette is trying to get sealed court documents unsealed in the Haney case.
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Something’s happening in Jacksonville, Florida with respect to LNG. It seems LNG plants of various types are popping up all over in Jacksonville! Nearly one year ago Eagle LNG opened its Maxville facility which liquefies natural gas into LNG for loading onto ships that use it as fuel (see Marc/Utica Gas Trucked to Jacksonville, FL for Use in LNG Ship). Eagle LNG is also working on a full-blown (smallish) LNG export plant near Jacksonville too (see FERC Grants Final Enviro OK to Jacksonville, FL LNG Export Plant). What we weren’t aware of, coming out of nowhere, is another small-scale LNG facility in Jacksonville, the JAX LNG facility, which opened for business earlier this month.
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U.S. Senator John Cornyn, Republican from Texas, along with Republican Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, along with (surprise!) two Democrat Senators, Chris Coons from Delaware and Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona, are all co-sponsoring a new bill called the Launching Energy Advancement and Development through Innovations for Natural Gas (LEADING) Act. While on the surface the bill seems to be addressing mythical man-made global warming, it’s true intent is to ensure loony birds in federal and state governments don’t outlaw the use of natural gas to generate electricity.
Read More “U.S. Senate Bill Promotes Continued Use of NatGas for PowerGen”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: PA Senators shop bill to give AG more environmental authority; Approve this natural gas pipeline: The New York metropolitan area’s economy will suffer greatly; TWA hotel doesn’t need city’s power grid. It has its own.; NATIONAL: Occidental to sell parts of Anadarko after debt-fueled acquisition; The next LNG boom will dwarf the last one; Fracking saves low-income Americans’ lives; What’s fueling our robust growth?; We shouldn’t be surprised renewables make energy expensive since that’s always been the greens’ goal; INTERNATIONAL: Replacing diesel with liquefied natural leads to a fuel economy of up to 60%.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, May 29, 2019”
Lightning struck a 1 million gallon condensate tank owned by Dominion Resources near Friendly (Tyler County), WV on Saturday afternoon around 1 pm. The strike ignited the tank, creating a “massive” fire according to news accounts.
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We love reading about entrepreneurs–young or old–who take a risk and achieve success. Particularly in the Marcellus/Utica industry. We have another such story to share–of a young man who began with a mini excavator (bought with tax refund money) and an old bulldozer donated by his grandfather–and turned it into 125 employees, 20 dump trucks, 10 tractor trailers and 80 pieces of excavating equipment.
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Hey West Virginia, you better wise up and do it soon with respect to downstream opportunities! That was the message delivered to his fellow West Virginians by WV University’s chief economist, John Deskins. He’s encouraging a “sense of urgency” in making the state more attractive to manufacturers and investors–to compete with Pennsylvania and Ohio, which seem to have a leg up on WV when it comes to the downstream.
Read More “Economist Says WV Playing Third Fiddle to PA, OH in Downstream”
We recently brought you several stories about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s predictable (and foolhardy) rejection of the Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) pipeline project to pipe more natural gas to a desperate New York City and Long Island (see NY Gov. Cuomo Denies Permit for Williams NESE Pipeline to NYC and Economic Fallout from Cuomo’s Decision to Kill NESE Pipeline). We’ve located another unique perspective on Cuomo’s decision, this one looking at the shaky legal basis Cuomo used to reject the project.
Read More “Cuomo Rejection of NESE Pipe Pushes Fed 401 Cert “to the Extreme””
Two weeks ago MDN reported that a New Jersey state commission, the Pinelands Commission, which has a power to block a pipeline through 10 miles of “protected” scrub pines and swamp lands, is currently paralyzed in their efforts to roll back permission previously granted for the pipeline project under Republican Gov. Chris Christie (see NJ Commission Remains Paralyzed on Revoking Pipeline Approval). NJ’s new Democrat governor, Phil Murphy, is attempting to pack the commission with radical leftists to unparalyze the commission.
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ExxonMobil recently signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to help fund both operations to the tune of $100 million over the next 10 years, looking to bring biofuels and carbon capture and storage to commercial scale across the transportation, power generation and industrial sectors. That is, to bring to market new tech that lowers carbon dioxide emissions. All in the name of stopping non-existent, man-made global warming.
Read More “ExxonMobil “Investing” $100M in Gov’t Research to Lower Emissions”