Last week the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) held two public hearings in Philadelphia about its proposed plan to ban fracking in the Delaware River Basin (see Low Turnout for Philly DRBC Frack Ban Hearing, Antis Dominate). As we pointed out in our post, you would think a city with 1.5 million residents would turn…
MDN editor Jim Willis lives right on the dividing line between New York and Pennsylvania–in the Binghamton, NY area (on the wrong side of the line). Pennsylvania, on the right side of the dividing line, has embraced shale drilling, and enormous economic benefits have flowed to communities where it happens. Cabot Oil & Gas alone…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: The implications of the Dimock verdict; Maryland Gov. Hogan’s “flexibility” on fracking; Gov. Cuomo pressures PSC to cover up clean energy costs; Supreme Court denies Trump effort to halt EPA water rule; Cheniere LNG export milestone; US…
Teresa Heinz-Kerry, affectionately known on MDN as Mamma Teresa, is a well-known anti-fracker. In 2013 Mamma Teresa fired the head of the Heinz Endowments, Bobby Vagt, after he had the temerity to support the Center for Sustainable Shale (see Bobby Vagt Out as Pres of Heinz Endowments – Fracking Connection? and She Speaks! Teresa Heinz…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Appeals court hears NEXUS pipeline case; Dimock verdict “aberrant result”; why do researchers hide good news about fracking?; PHMSA schedules hearings on LNG regs; Schlumberger’s new tech may be competitive threat; E&P capex spending plunges again; and…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Fractivists pressure Hillary & Crazy Bernie; o&g development in the Ohio Valley; PA’s rig count drops again; John Hanger hangs out in the radical middle; shale’s manufacturing potential in WV; Vermont radicals keep disrupting pipeline meetings; natgas…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Southwestern Energy’s outlook for 2016; PA’s rig count stablizes; what the media got wrong about Dimock verdict; MA AG fights pipeline in CT; Duke Energy turning pig poop into electricity; US rig count hits all-time low; more…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Go West young molecule; Dimock lawsuit likely to spur other lawsuits; natgas perfect storm; regulators want new regs for old pipelines; little change in natgas storage; financial lifelines for drillers “slipping away”; Canada sees new potential for…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Southwestern Energy expecting massive writedowns; PA rig count goes up by 3 last week; lessons learned from Dimock trial; legal implications of Dimock case; PA issuing “administrative concern” violations; inside the PA pipeline task force; NGL prices…
The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Where is the media for the Dimock trial?; Shell keeps working on the PA cracker; yet another lawsuit against Chesapeake from leaseholders, this one in Oklahoma; DOJ drops indictment against dead Aubrey McClendon; rig counts near record…
Susquehanna County, PA, which sits just across the border from where MDN is written in Broome County, NY, is one of the miracles in the Marcellus Shale. Cabot Oil & Gas, among a few other drillers, have extensive operations in Susquehanna County. In fact, all of Cabot’s PA wells are located in that one county,…
Hoping to get one more squeeze and a few more drops of juice out of news that’s now years old, the odious Earthworks and equally odious Food & Water Watch organized a protest rally in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday and trotted out the same old tired, lying anti-drillers from Dimock, PA, Pavillion, WY and Parker…
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Why is the price that drillers in the northeast receive for natural gas so much less than what drillers get in other areas of the country? In a word–pipelines. Or rather, lack of them. When will the infrastructure constraints that cause northeast prices to remain low be resolved? At least several years, according to one…
Here comes the next media smear campaign. This time the meme is “You know that lie we’ve been telling about how shale drilling contaminates water wells? Well it was true all along. Here’s the proof!” Case in point: The Associate Press has a single, breathless story of a new list just released by the Pennsylvania…
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