Score a victory for the forces of good in (of all places), radical Massachusetts, where the administration of Gov. Charlie Baker (RINO) on Friday approved air quality permits for a natural gas compressor station in Weymouth.
Read More “Antis Outraged: Massachusetts Gov Approves Weymouth Compress Stn”
West Virginia is in desperate need of jobs following decades of job losses in the coal industry (from 70,000 jobs in the 1970s to 13,000 today). WV has another great natural resource: natural gas. As coal was to WV, natgas now is.
Read More “Leveraging the Marcellus/Utica to Make WV Great Again”
A dangerously stupid New York City councilman by the name of Costa Constantinides has introduced a dangerously stupid bill that would force New York City to stop using electricity generated by clean-burning natural gas-fired plants, and instead use only electricity from windmills and solar farms.
Read More “NYC Would Go Dark Under Plan Intro’d by Queens Politician”
Last week our favorite government agency, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, published a post about electricity generation that predicts that in 2019 more gigawatts of electricity will come online from wind-powered sources than either solar or natural gas. Together renewables and natgas represent 98% of all new electric generating sources coming online in 2019.
Read More “NatGas & Renewables 98% of New Electric Generation Coming in 2019”
LNG is a big deal. We recently reported that New Fortress Energy (NFE) is planning to build an small LNG (liquefied natural gas) liquefaction plant in Wyalusing (Bradford County), PA in order to export Marcellus gas (see Big News! Marcellus LNG Export Plant Coming to Landlocked NEPA).
Read More “Small is the New Big in LNG Import/Export”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: One year later, NYC’s climate lawsuit wastes taxpayer money to boost de Blasio’s credentials; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: How LNG exports will change Gulf Coast natural gas markets in 2019; NATIONAL: U.S. shale oil and natural gas, underestimated its whole life; Jay Inslee pledges to reject fossil fuel money ahead of climate-centered 2020 bid; INTERNATIONAL: Another crucial Canadian pipeline runs into trouble.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Mon, Jan 14, 2019”
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The Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), every now and again, will lease state-owned land for gas drilling. The DCNR has just leased land under the Youghiogheny River in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. We have the full lease, and lease terms, below…
Read More “PA Leases Youghiogheny River Land in SWPA to Chevron $4K/Ac”
NOTE: This story and the headline have been updated to correct an earlier error from the source we used. It is not FirstEnergy but PennEnergy that is proposing to drill under the park.
We spotted a second story today about a new lease, in this case proposed lease terms, for land in southwestern Pennsylvania. This time the driller, PennEnergy, wants to drill under (not on) a town park that sits on the border of Allegheny and Beaver counties.
Read More “PennEnergy Offers $3.5K/Ac to Drill Under SWPA Town Park”
Score a minor victory for the odious Philadelphia Clean Air Council in their fight to block any/all fossil fuel projects any/everywhere. They’ve convinced the PA Environmental Hearing Board to question a previously issued air quality permit for the Marcus Hook refinery in Delaware County, near Philadelphia.
Read More “PA Enviro Hearing Board Rejects Air Permit for Marcus Hook”
In October MDN brought you news about a proposed new EQT Midstream (now Equitrans) pipeline project in Pennsylvania and West Virginia that will feed into the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a project called Hammerhead (see EQT Midstream Plans 1.2 Bcf/d Hammerhead Pipeline to Feed MVP).
Read More “Sierra Club Makes Play to Stop EQT Hammerhead Pipeline”
Bureaucracies move about as fast as the glaciers in Antarctica. It doesn’t matter where the bureaucracy is located–federal, local, or in this case, state government.
Read More “PA DEP Comes into 21st Century with e-Permits for Shale Wells”
Ole Andrew Cuomo (pronounced Coo-moh by many people we know) is facing a classic Catch-22 situation. He has long promoted and earnestly wants a new arena as the home for the New York Islanders hockey team, but unless he allows a new natural gas pipeline under New York bay, he’s not going to get it.
Read More “Cuomo’s Catch-22: No New NatGas Pipe? No New Long Island Arena”
Here’s an interesting factoid: Even with our improved fracking technology, the amount of oil and gas that stays in the ground after a well is fracked is around 90%! Yes, even on our best days we’re only extracting maybe 10% of the fossil fuels down there. Can that ratio be improved?
Read More “DOE Awarding $88M in Grants to Research Better O&G Extraction”
MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Anniversay of de Blasio’s divestment announcement; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Baker urged to reject natural gas air permits; New Canaan natural gas project could move downtown a year early; Vermont Gas ordered to show whether engineer OK’d pipeline plans; NATIONAL: Fossil generators ask Supreme Court to review state nuclear subsidies; Americas target petrochemicals; 626 groups urge congress to phase out fossil fuels, build green economy; INTERNATIONAL: For energy markets, geopolitical risk is the new normal.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, Jan 11, 2019”
Yesterday Chesapeake Energy issued a preliminary report on fourth quarter 2018 results, and an operational update looking ahead to 2019. Embedded in the 2018 information is some blow-the-doors-off big news!
Read More “Chesapeake Drills Monster Record-Breaking Marcellus Wells in NEPA”