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Will Puerto Rico’s Clean Energy Law Affect Marcellus LNG Imports?
Does one government hand know what the other is doing in Puerto Rico? More to the point, is there a brain instructing either hand what to do? That’s the question we had as we read the legislature of PR has just passed an idiotic law requiring all electricity generation on the island to come from so-called renewables by 2050.
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When you hear the term “Clean Energy” what do you think it means? Almost everyone would agree the term means wind and solar power. But that’s a premise that is ripe for questioning. When you start to look at the bigger picture, the illusion of “clean” wind turbines and solar panels quickly goes SPLAT!
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: New York is in bad economic shape – fracking could change that if Cuomo would allow it; NATIONAL: Tight oil development will continue to drive future U.S. crude oil production; US natural gas in storage falls 36 Bcf as heating season likely wraps up; New reports offer solutions to protect against “recent surge” of climate liability lawsuits; INTERNATIONAL: Denmark wants a new route for Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
Diversified Gas & Oil has been on a mission to buy as many non-shale (conventional) oil and gas wells as it can in the Appalachian Basin. It owns close to 3 million acres of leases with some 60,000 (mostly) conventional oil and gas wells. That’s changing. Yesterday Diversified announced it has cut a deal to buy 107 operating (and 3 non-operating) shale wells in Pennsylvania and West Virginia for $400 million.
Anti-fossil fuel radicals are making noises, threatening noises, about how they may react when and if (as seems likely) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) decides to overrule New York State and allow the Williams Constitution Pipeline to finally, after five years, get built.
Last night people opposed to drilling a few wells at the U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Plant in a Pittsburgh suburb turned up to complain that somehow a noisy, air-polluting steel plant will be made even nosier and more polluting by drilling a few shale wells on the property. It’s an absurd position to argue, but there you go.
We spotted a story that says India’s GAIL (formerly known as Gas Authority of India Limited) has put yet another one of its contracted LNG shipments of Marcellus Shale gas coming from Dominion’s Cove Point LNG export facility, up for sale. In fact, it’s already sold and on its way to be unloaded at a port in Belgium.
An important project from Williams, the Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) which would beef up capacity along the Transco pipeline system going into New York City, is now under review in New Jersey. Part of the project must pass through NJ on its way to NY–and it’s time to 
A lawsuit that began life a year ago, in March 2018, has finally been settled between suburbanite landowners near Philadelphia and Sunoco Logistics Partners over construction activities related to the Mariner East 2 (ME2) Pipeline project.
Pennsylvania House Bill (HB) 827, which would make a permanent frack ban by the Delaware River Basin Commission (if adopted) a government “taking” or seizure of a citizens’ property liable for compensation, passed the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee yesterday with a bipartisan vote of 16-9.
Another $3 million in taxpayer-funded grants have just been handed out to three different local pipeline projects under Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Investment Program, or PIPE. Two of the projects are in northeastern PA, and the other in the Lehigh Valley area.
Utility giant National Grid has officially begun to caution (promise? warn? threaten?) “dozens of midsize companies” in New York City now applying to become new natural gas customers they may not be able to hook up for natgas–unless Williams’ Northeast Supply Enhancement Project (NESE) is approved in a *timely* fashion. Promise made, promise kept.
In October 2016, Indeck Energy announced a plan to build a $1 billion electric generating plant (powered by natural gas) in Niles, Michigan, not far from Chicago (see