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Bill desRosiers
External Affairs Coordinator, Coterra Energy
Host, Shale Gas News

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The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about Chickahominy Power, oil reserves, anti-fossil fuel banks and much more last week.

The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport area on stations WEJS 1600 AM & 104.1 FM. The Shale Gas News is now broadcasting in Bradford, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon, Luzerne, Lycoming, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga and Wayne Counties, as well as in greater central PA and now the Williamsport area. The Shale Gas News is aired on Saturday or Sunday depending on the station.

Every Saturday Rusty Fender, Matt Henderson and I host a morning radio show to discuss all things shale gas. This week we played a clip from the House Agriculture Committee in D.C. on the 2022 review of the Farm Bill, specifically energy and renewable energy opportunities for rural America.

The Shale Gas News, typically, is broadcast live. On the April 9th show (click above), we covered the following new natural gas territory (see news excerpts below):

• Democrats find themselves on the defensive over gas prices. When Rep. Mike Levin is back home, the California Democrat tells voters about the three P’s he says are to blame for gas prices topping $6 a gallon: the pandemic, Vladimir Putin and alleged price-gouging by oil companies. But many of his constituents in Southern California’s 49th District are convinced President Biden and the Democrats he leads are in some measure responsible for an issue that has gained sudden urgency for American voters in an election year.
• Our Views: Tapping the oil reserve is shortsighted politics for Joe Biden. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a series of underground storage caverns in Louisiana and Texas that can hold more than 700 million barrels of crude oil to be used in national emergencies.  A president with low poll numbers and bad energy policies is not a national emergency.
• Marcellus-Fired Power Plant Project Near Richmond, VA Canceled. Cancel culture strikes again. The Evil Empire has won another battle (but not the war). MDN first told you about plans to build the Chickahominy Power Station, a 1,650 megawatt state-of-the-art natural gas-fired power plant in Charles City County, VA, in June 2018. The plant will need a 24-inch gas pipeline that would traverse five counties in central Virginia to connect to an interstate pipeline that would feed Marcellus/Utica gas to the plant. The project has hit multiple roadblocks getting the pipeline built, so Chickahominy Power is calling it quits, canceling the entire project outright.
• WV Bill Targeting Anti-Fossil Fuel Banks, Investors Becomes Law. In January a new bill was introduced in the West Virginia Senate requiring the entire state government, all of the various state agencies and governmental departments, to stop doing business with any bank or investment firm that refuses to support coal, oil, and natural gas companies. We are delighted to report that Senate Bill (SB) 262, which passed both the WV Senate and the House in March, was signed into law by WV Gov. Jim Justice last week. It’s now time to start defunding the defunders! The next step: Creating a list of companies WV will no longer do business with. They’re makin’ a list, checkin’ it twice. Gonna find out who’s naughty or nice.
• NFE Caves to Radicals, “Pulls the Plug” on Wyalusing, PA LNG Plant. It’s always a sad day when radical Big Green groups win a victory over American energy. Such has happened with the New Fortress Energy (NFE) LNG plant proposed for Wyalusing in Bradford County, PA. Three Big Green groups challenged an extension for a permit previously issued for a new liquefaction facility proposed by NFE located in northeastern PA. NFE has caved and agreed that should it proceed with the project; it will need to file all over again and get a new permit–which doesn’t look likely.
• Range Resources Drilling Rig Catches Fire in Lycoming County, PA. A Patterson-UTI drilling rig caught fire Monday night at a Marcellus well pad in Lycoming County, PA. The rig is contracted by Range Resources. The fire broke out around 10:30 pm Monday, shooting flames more than 100 feet high. The cause of the fire is not yet known, but it was not a “well-control incident” (out of control well burning)–that much is known. The local fire department chief credits the rig crew with getting things under control quickly. There were, thank God, no injuries.
• EQT CEO Toby Rice’s Unconventional Rise to Run US’s #1 Gas Co. You might think that Toby Rice, son of Daniel Rice III who was, at one time (for over a decade), the single most successful and profitable mutual fund manager in the world, was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. You might think that everything was given to Toby Rice on a silver platter. You would be wrong. Prior to running the largest natural gas producer in the U.S., Toby Rice was, among other professions, a chimney sweep (cue the song from Mary Poppins, Chim Chim Cher-ee). He then swept floors for $9 an hour while he attended grad school to learn about fracking. Toby knows what it’s like to work (hard) for a living.

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