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Shale Gas News – November 10, 2018

The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about the Colorado election, Keystone XL Pipeline, Blue Racer Midstream and much more last week.

Every Saturday Rusty Fender and I host a morning radio show to discuss all things natural gas. This week, as a guest, we had Joe Peters, former Scranton Police Officer, PA State Crime…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 12, 2018 at 9:37am — No Comments

The Fractivist Trail of Hypocrisy and Double Standards

Fractivists are the worst hypocrites. Most hypocrites have standards they violate. A trip down the fractivist trail, though, shows only double standards.

Wine trails, antique trails and historical trails; there seems to be a trail for everything these days. A combination of websites, maps and trail signs lead us to various attractions in which we might have an interest. Most states have historical marker programs, in fact, to giver us little tidbits of why…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 12, 2018 at 9:18am — No Comments

Pennsylvania Auditor General Gives DRBC A Whitewash

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale just released audits of the SRBC and DRBC, giving the latter a total white wash and ignoring the real issues.

The Pennsylvania Auditor General just released his audits of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) and Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC). The former uncovered some sloppy spending habits and a few other things but the DRBC audit was a joke, a total whitewash of the agency, even promoting the…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 9, 2018 at 9:39am — No Comments

Keep It in the Ground; A Strategy of Lies and Junk Lawsuits

The Keep It in the Ground folks are engaged in a campaign of lies and litigation designed to tie up the system in knots and impose an ideological agenda.

The “Keep It in the Ground” activists behind Juliana v. United States—the “trial of the millennium”—are also the driving forces behind the “necessity defense” trials of the…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 9, 2018 at 9:09am — No Comments

Buyer of Mineral Rights

CP Royalties out of Tampa FL is offering $4,000 an acre to buy mineral rights in Jefferson County, Island Creek Township,  This is a buy, not a lease. Their number is 8882404576

Added by r smith on November 8, 2018 at 10:46am — No Comments

Endless Mountains Produce Endless Amounts of Natural Gas

Four counties produce 44% of all Pennsylvania natural gas and one yields 4% of all U.S. production. The Endless Mountains are an endless source of gas.

Natural gas production in Pennsylvania reached an all-time high in August, and Susquehanna County is in the lead. According to the August report issued by the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), 44 percent of the natural gas being produced in the Commonwealth is coming from the Endless Mountains…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 8, 2018 at 8:38am — No Comments

Natural Gas Power Pays: Plant Will Pay $750,000 in Property Taxes

A single new 1,000 MW natural gas fueled power plant in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania will pay over $750,000 annually in property taxes. Call it a power pay.

As of September, the 1,000-megawatt Moxie Freedom Marcellus-fired power plant located near Wilkes-Barre, PA (Luzerne County) is up and running and feeding electricity it produces into the local power grid (see …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 7, 2018 at 9:10am — No Comments

Colorado Fracking Votes Uphold Property Rights

Two interesting Colorado fracking votes indicate support for property rights and opposition to extremist regulations that amount to regulatory takings.

Yesterday’s election produced some rather remarkable votes regarding Colorado fracking. The state is a significant oil and gas producer. Fractivists, though, were able to get an initiative placed on the ballot called Proposition 112 that would have gutted the industry by requiring 2,500 feet setbacks for…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 7, 2018 at 8:38am — No Comments

Cabot and Williams On An Education Adventure with Small Schools

Cabot and Williams are working with the Pennsylvania Association for Rural and Small Schools to deliver new educational tools to innovative small schools.

Edward Albert is in his third year as executive director of Pennsylvania Association for Rural and Small Schools (PARSS). The former superintendent of the Tulpehocken Area School District in Berks County took a decidedly hands-on…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 6, 2018 at 12:54pm — No Comments

Trapped in the Southern Tier: The Vicious Cycle of Cuomo

The Southern Tier is like a fallen leaf, dried up and scattered to the wind, destined to be mulch, its people trapped in a vicious cycle wrought by Cuomo.

One of the favorite canards of the anti-fossil crowd (canard – an unfounded story, not to be confused with the French “quacking duck” from whence it derives) is that areas where natural gas is developed suffer declines in real estate values.

This is patently false. Real estate prices always decline…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 6, 2018 at 8:24am — No Comments

Shale Gas News – November 3, 2018

The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about U.S. oil, PA production, Susquehanna County and much more last week.

The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH station! Gem 104 helps to solidify the Shale Gas News coverage in an important Marcellus region, PA’s northern tier. The Shale Gas News is now broadcasting in Bradford, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon,…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 5, 2018 at 10:21am — No Comments

Natural Gas Energy Is Giving Power to the Poor and Lighting the Future

Natural gas energy is electrifying the world, giving power to the poor. New technology is going to accelerate the process. Natural gas energy IS our future.

Two stories came to my attention yesterday that illustrate natural gas energy is our future. The first is …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 5, 2018 at 9:53am — No Comments

Range Resources Seeds the Future for the Monarch Butterfly

Range Resources has been working with conservationists and others to enhance Monarch Butterfly habitat and “seed the future” for this very special species.

It’s not a connection many people might readily make—natural gas development and an increase in the number of monarch butterflies in the region. But for California University of…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 2, 2018 at 9:34am — No Comments

Pitt Learning How to Convert Frack Water Into High Quality Water

Recycling of frack water for reuse in hydraulic fracturing is old news, but the University of Pttsburgh is now learning how to turn it into high-quality water.

The University of Pittsburgh is getting a $1.76 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to pilot test a new method of treating frack wastewater. When we read the headline about this grant we rolled our eyes. Really? There are plenty of private firms who cracked the frack wastewater recycling…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 2, 2018 at 8:56am — No Comments

New Yorkers Are Being Coerced Into Accepting Backyard Wind Farms

Article 10 of the New York State Public Service Law allows the governor’s henchmen to coerce towns into accepting backyard wind farms. Where did home rule go?

Yesterday’s post from the Institute for Energy Research generated …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 1, 2018 at 12:09pm — No Comments

Why There Is So Much Pipeline Opposition from Fractivists

Fractivist pipeline opposition began a few years ago as they found the only way to stop gas development was to choke it off. That’s not working either.

There’s no better place to get the latest news on natural gas then Marcellus Drilling News. Yesterday, it carried …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 1, 2018 at 8:34am — No Comments

STEM Training of Area Educators Will Help Students Prepare for Future

Local energy companies and Junior Achievement team up to offer area educators a fun day of STEM training with activities to take back to the classroom.

On Oct. 5, Cabot Oil & GasUGI Energy Services and …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on November 1, 2018 at 8:00am — No Comments

Wind Farms Cause Global Warming? Please, Say It Isn’t So

Could wind farms cause global warming, possibly even more than fossil fuels? A new Harvard University study suggests they could.

Harvard University study suggests that, under certain conditions and in the near term, increased wind power could mean more climate warming than would be caused by the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity. The…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 31, 2018 at 9:58am — 1 Comment

Four Pennsylvania Counties Can Supply All the Gas Germany Needs!

Four counties in Pennsylvania—Bradford, Greene, Susquehanna and Washington—can supply all the natural gas needed by Germany. It can give Russia the Heisman.

My post the other day about the fact “Susquehanna County Produces More Than 4% of U.S.” has been quite well read. The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) monthly data for…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 30, 2018 at 8:43am — No Comments

The Truth About Gas: Rural Patients Are Now Able to Access Healthcare

Rural patients in the Endless Mountains, thanks to natural gas development, now have better access to health care and, overall, an improved quality of life.

As a life-long resident of Susquehanna County and CEO of Endless Mountains Health Systems (EMHS), Loren Stone has seen primary care and critical access in his community all but disappear. Fortunately, he has seen it come back to…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on October 30, 2018 at 8:12am — No Comments

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