Tag: LNG
Posted on July 4, 2022
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One of the major U.S. hubs for LNG processing, storage and pipeline transportation is located at the center of Marcellus Shale country in western Pennsylvania near Houston, Washington County, Pennsylvania. The hub began with the construction of MarkWest’s cryogenic gas plant, which also includes… Continue Reading “Bottom of the LNG Chain – Independence from Meaningful Taxes”
Category: Oil & Gas county taxesTags: Chartiers Township, compressor stations, county taxes, cryogenic gas plant, ethane, gas liquids, Houston PA, LNG, natural gas, oil and gas revenues, Pennsylvania, pipelines, tank farm, Washington County Pennsylvania
Posted on June 20, 2022
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News out of Germany yesterday points to how many nations have been hamstrung by their reliance on natural gas, as supplies tighten and prices whipsaw. Since renewables aren’t quite where they need to be yet, the current crisis, with heating season a scant 12… Continue Reading “Coal, not Gas, as the ‘Bridge Fuel?’”
Category: CoalTags: anthracite, bituminous, bridge fuel, coal, coal mines, coal mining, deep mines, energy generation, fossil fuels, Germany, LNG, longwall mining, natural gas, Poland, power plant
Posted on June 16, 2022
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The June 8, 2022 explosion and fire at the FREEPORT LNG export terminal in Quintana, Texas, dropped the Henry Hub commodity price for natural gas, from $9.34 two days before the incident to $7.26 a week later, a huge 23% price drop. Conversely, LNG… Continue Reading “LNG Export Outage Helping US Prices”
Category: LNGTags: Britain, commodity prices, drilling, Europe, exports, fracking, gas wells, heat wave, hydraulic fracturing, Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG, Marcellus Shale, natural gas, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, renewable energy, renewables, solar energy, Texas, wind energy
Posted on June 13, 2022
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While the CEO of the largest US shale gas producer keeps talking about “unleashing” Marcellus Shale natural gas, and more specifically, it’s condensed liquid form, LNG, we’re suddenly snapped back to its radioactive realities. Reporter JUSTIN NOBEL spelled it out in his June 9,… Continue Reading “Unleashing the American LNG ‘Trojan Horse’”
Category: LNGTags: Cove Point, drilling, Europe, exports, fracking, gas wells, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, Marcellus Shale, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, radium, Radium 226, Radium 228, radon, shale gas
Posted on June 3, 2022
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Yesterday, Pennsylvania Senators Katie Muth and Jim Brewster hosted a public hearing in Monroeville, PA: “Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect Public Health and What We Can Do to Correct It.” Watch the 2 hour and 44 minute hearing video… Continue Reading “Fracking Public Health and Policy in Pennsylvania”
Category: Marcellus shaleTags: Alison Steele, Brian Schwartz, Cathy Lodge, centralized impoundment dams, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, compressor stations, cryogenic plants, DOH, drilling, EHP, EIP, ethane, fracking, fugitive emissions, gas processing, gas wells, Gasland, Geisinger Health, Gillian Graber, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, Jay Costa, Jim Brewster, Katie Muth, Lisa Graves-Marcucci, LNG, methane emissions, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania DEP, Pennsylvania Legislature, pig launchers, pipelines, propane, Protect PT, public health, public policy, Ra226, shale waste, Smith Township, Washington County, well pads
Posted on May 26, 2022
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Have you fallen victim to the oil and gas industry’s disinformation campaign? Have a listen to this new Podcast, or read the transcript, to find out for yourself: New Research: Big Fossil’s Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine“In the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,… Continue Reading “Oil and Gas Industry’s “Disaster Capitalism””
Category: fossil fuelsTags: API, climate change, climate policy, drilling, EarthWorks, frac sand, fracking, global warming, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, Marcellus Shale, methane, natural gas, Ohio, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, renewable energy, shale gas, Sharon Wilson, solar energy, Texas, Ukraine, US Chamber of Commerce, Utica Shale, West Virginia
Posted on May 17, 2022
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If you take a look at how much Texas nets from its severance tax on oil and gas production, you realize how badly Pennsylvanians are getting screwed with mere ‘chump change’ impact fees. There have been multiple efforts over the years, the latest by… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania’s Impact Fee is ‘Chump Change’”
Category: UncategorizedTags: Cross Creek County Park, drilling, ethane, exports, fracking, gas liquids, gas wells, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, impact fee, LNG, Marcellus Shale, Mariner East, methane, oil and gas revenues, Pennsylvania, politicians, propane, resource curse, taxpayers, Washington County
Posted on May 1, 2022
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On April 28, the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Concerned Health Professionals of New York released their Eighth Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking and Associated Gas and Oil Infrastructure. The Compendium is a collection of… Continue Reading “Risks and Harms of Fracking and Oil and Gas Infrastructure”
Category: Fracking Health RisksTags: air pollution, drilling, ethane, frac, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, Marcellus Shale, methane, methane gas, natural gas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, Radium 226, Radium 228, Utica Shale, wastewater, water pollution, well pad, West Virginia
Posted on April 26, 2022
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A well-written and researched story by Justin Nobel was published yesterday on DeSmog: ‘This Needs to Be Fixed’: Nuclear Expert Calls Radioactivity Levels Found Outside Ohio Oilfield Waste Facility ‘Excessive’. Justin’s MUST READ story is about a facility in Martins Ferry, Ohio, that processes… Continue Reading “The ‘Un-Natural Gas’ Radioactive Waste Stream”
Category: Marcellus shaleTags: drilling, fracking, gas patch, gas wells, GOP, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, landfills, LNG, Ohio, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Ra226, Ra228, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, Radium 226, Radium 228, shale gas, Utah, Utica Shale, West Virginia
Posted on March 10, 2022
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The invasion of Ukraine, a dastardly war which has caused 2 million Ukrainians to leave their homeland, and brings heart wrenching news of residential areas –even a maternity hospital yesterday– being bombed and shelled by Russia, is a clarion call to break our addiction… Continue Reading “Clarion call for renewables NOW”
Category: climate change, electricity, energy, environment, fossil fuels, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, renewable energy, solar energy, warTags: climate change, geothermal, LNG, methane gas, oil, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Ukraine, wind energy