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West Virginia DEP Revokes Twice Approved Mountain Valley Certification

West Virginia DEP oversteps FERC and decides to vacate the already twice approved Mountain Valley Pipeline and revoke the 401 certification.

As we have noted in our prior blog posts on the Constitution Pipeline and …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 14, 2017 at 3:22am — No Comments

Refineries and Pipelines Already Coming Back Online After Hurricanes

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma caused a temporary halt in energy production, but oil and gas companies’ preparation has us quickly moving forward.

Information technology professionals are some of the best at recognizing system failures and understanding that if their server or network goes offline, business will come to a screeching halt. To mitigate this potential disruption,…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 14, 2017 at 1:07am — No Comments

DRBC Chaos Raising Question of Why We Even Need It

The DRBC, in an effort to bring order out of self-created chaos, has announced it will consider something today but whatever it is, is deliberately unclear.

It just gets “curiouser and curiouser” as a hopelessly incompetent and politically corrupted Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) composed mostly of the same parties who are the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) is forced to react to a lawsuit against it. Today, it will consider …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 13, 2017 at 3:27am — No Comments

Corruptocrat’s Big Millennium Pipeline Mistake, If It Was One

Andrew Cuomo, Gov. Corruptocrat, has New York State DEC under his thumb and may have forced it to make a big mistake on the Millennium Pipeline extension.

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) issued a refusal, on August 30, to grant a water quality certification to Millennium…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 12, 2017 at 1:15am — No Comments

Shale Gas News – September 9, 2017

The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about severance tax, natural gas tractors, the DALP lawsuit and much more last week.

The Shale Gas News has grown to THREE stations! We are now broadcasting with YesFM. YesFM will be airing the full 60 minute version of the program on Sunday mornings. YesFM broadcasts primarily in Sullivan and Bradford counties, with some ancillary coverage in neighboring counties…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 11, 2017 at 2:36am — No Comments

Fractivists Learn Nothing from Energy Transfer Partners Lawsuit

Greenpeace and friends have learned absolutely nothing from the Energy Transfer Partners lawsuit against it and continue to defame, distort and dissemble.

Common sense would suggest that if you’re named as a defendant in a billion-dollar lawsuit, accused of making “materially false,…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 11, 2017 at 1:51am — No Comments

When It Comes to Fracking, Emotion Is No Substitute for Science

Nick Grealy reflects on what he expects from UK fracking, the roles of emotion and science and what he faces in the way of personal challenges right now.

August is the traditional peak of the silly season when the UK media uses any number of tenuous, out dated or too often, simply bored attempts to feed the maw of the media machinery. With audience and grown ups away, the field is opened up to a new crop of writers misguided enough to still see some romance…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 10, 2017 at 12:42am — No Comments

DRBC Not Only Corrupt, But Obviously Incompetent

Strange chaotic things have been going on at the DRBC recently as members have been replaced, damaging info has been leaked and protests needlessly spurred.

Yesterday, I noted the rumors I had earlier heard and my suppositions regarding the same appeared to be correct. DRBC folks and friends began leaking word all over the place that the agency was…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 9, 2017 at 2:43am — No Comments

Tom Wolf; You’re No Friend of the Working Family

Betty Sutliff writes a letter to Gov. Tom Wolf reminding him of a landowners meeting held with the Governor and how far he’s strayed from what he told them.

September 8, 2017

The Honorable Tom Wolf

Governor of Pennsylvania

225 Main Capitol

Harrisburg, PA 17120

Re: DRBC Plans to Ban Fracking

Dear Governor Wolf:

On February 2, 2015, I mailed …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 8, 2017 at 5:36am — No Comments

Long Overdue DAPL Lawsuit Shows How to Fight Fractivism

Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind DAPL, is showing how to fight fractivism and the radical environmental enterprise with an overdue RICO lawsuit.

This is somewhat old news given the fact the lawsuit was filed two weeks ago, but it’s…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 8, 2017 at 2:06am — No Comments

Corrupt DRBC Leaks Like A Sieve; Says Ban in the Works

A DRBC fracking ban seems to be in the works and members, employees or colluding partners couldn’t wait to release the news. What corrupt enterprise!

It appears the rumors and my supposition were correct. The DRBC and/or its friends at the Riverkeeper, et al are leaking like a sieve and putting out the word the agency will announce…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 7, 2017 at 9:40am — No Comments

The Shale Revolution in Oil and Gas – Our Economic Big Stick

Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing — the shale revolution — have bolstered the US economy while enhancing our foreign and military policy position.

The combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing is at the heart of the shale revolution and has yielded abundant unconventional energy. It has also improved the US economy (creating jobs, state tax revenues and oil independence) while providing a means to enhance our position with respect…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 7, 2017 at 1:42am — No Comments

Is the William Penn Foundation Planning a DRBC Ban?

The William Penn Foundation, as a private foundation, is legally prohibited from any lobbying, but it seems to be laying groundwork for a DRBC fracking ban.

There’s something especially rotten going in the Denmark known as the Delaware River Basin. It’s being orchestrated by the William Penn Foundation, which is a private Haas family foundation not legally permitted to do any lobbying whatsoever, but which also has made a standard practice of doing it through…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 6, 2017 at 4:37am — No Comments

Shale Gas News – September 2, 2017

The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about the Atlantic Sunrise, ethane storage, NEXUS Pipeline and much more last week.

The Shale Gas News has grown to THREE stations! We are now broadcasting with YesFM. YesFM will be airing the full 60 minute version of the program on Sunday mornings. YesFM broadcasts primarily in Sullivan and Bradford counties, with some ancillary coverage in neighboring…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 5, 2017 at 2:24am — No Comments

New Holland Develops NGT (Natural Gas Tractor)

New Holland, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of farm equipment, already has a propane farm tractor and has now developed one that uses methane fuel.

It’s being marketed as a “sustainable” farm tractor that burns farm-generated methane, but it can just as easily work off conventional natural gas, of course. New Holland already has a propane powered farm tractor, so this is the next logical step. It’s one sleek blue farm machine and provides one of…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 5, 2017 at 1:38am — No Comments

More Great Marcellus Shale News from New York State!

As fractivists fight pipelines, storage facilites and power plants, great Marcellus Shale News has come in NY.

Back in February, MDN told you we had made a discovery in reading through Crestwood Equity Partners (formerly known as Crestwood Midstream) quarterly update: the company is “developing a greenfield rail-to-truck NGL terminal…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 4, 2017 at 2:40am — No Comments

Methane Emissions Decline As DEP and Fractivist Hype Skyrocket

Fake news and fake policy are the order of the day with Pennsylvania DEP methane emissions data and the fractivist hyperbole surrounding the just released data.

Articles at Philly.com (now controlled by the same anti-gas Haas family that is the William Penn Foundation and also funds PennFuture, the Delaware Riverkeeper, the Clean…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 4, 2017 at 12:15am — No Comments

South Miami Goes Wild and Mandates Solar Panels for New Roofs

South Miami politicians have passed a law requiring new roofs to include solar panels, putting politically correct ideology ahead of both liberty and reason.

Florida is a beautiful state. Having lived there for a few years, I fell in love with the Sunshine State, as you were close to major metropolitan areas as well as places that seem to not changed since the Jurassic Period. It is a favorite destination for tourism and retirement; unique in every capacity you can…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 3, 2017 at 12:30am — No Comments

Sea Change Foundation the Epitome of Tax-Exempt Corporatism

The Sea Change Foundation is the epitome of corporatism and corruption as it uses tax-exempt charity status to fund its rent-seeking and attack competitors.  

Politico is anything but an unbiased observer; hence its hyperbolic headlines and ledes but  it does put out a lot of facts and if you’re patient enough to read beyond the 10th paragraph you often find them. A …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 2, 2017 at 1:25am — No Comments

Three Strikes and New York State DEC Ought to Be Out

New York State DEC has struck three times now; it has just rejected water quality certification for the Millennium Pipeline extension. Time to call it out!

The New York State DEC yesterday formally denied water quality certification for a third FERC regulated pipeline project (check out …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 1, 2017 at 1:28am — No Comments

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