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Maryland Pipeline Rejection Jeopardizes 6,000 Customers, Jobs
The State of Maryland, via its rejection of a tiny 3.5-mile pipeline project that will travel under the Potomac River, is putting more than 6,000 natural gas customers and hundreds of jobs at risk on the other side of the river in West Virginia.
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Disappointingly, the Fourth Circus Court of Appeals has turned down Dominion Energy’s request to move up oral arguments (from March to end of January) in a case that has shut down work along the entire 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
The bureaucrats at the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) are rubbing their hands together, eagerly anticipating millions of dollars to roll through the door and into the agency’s pockets following a recent PA Supreme Court ruling on strippers (see 
Sorry to burst your bubble, all you gas bulls who believe low storage numbers + weather (hot or cold) = high natgas prices for the long term.
The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Jennifer Huntington: The forgotten woman we can’t forget; Luzerne County taking applications for Marcellus Shale grants; South Texas feedgas demand ramping up with Corpus Christi LNG; American oil is coming to flood the market. Or is it?; The other shales; 2019 could make or break OPEC; IMO 2020’s effect on prices for crude, refined products and refinery residue.
Is anyone surprised that the $6 billion ethane cracker plant complex proposed by PTT Global Chemical for Belmont County, OH did not, as previously promised, announce a final investment decision (FID) in 2018? We sure weren’t.
You know you’ve hit a nerve when so-called reporters (propagandists) at a Philadelphia-area newspaper drop all pretense of being objective in their reporting and begin calling a pipeline project made-up names–like calling Mariner East 2 “Frankenpipe.” Talk about petulant and childish!
Last September the Ohio Supreme Court handed down a decision that requires oil and gas landmen working in Ohio to have a real estate license (see 
One year ago, in January 2018, Dominion Energy announced a deal to buy out and merge in South Carolina-based SCANA Corporation (see 
In early December, the U.S. Senate confirmed Bernard McNamee in a razor close 50-49 vote to become the fifth member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission–the third Republican member (see 