- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 22, 2021
Contractors Who Are Part of the Natural Gas Supply Chain Are Winners!
Natalie DeCarioExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor Comment: The natural gas supply chain is huge and includes hundreds of local contractors and their employees are benefitting economically.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 20, 2021
Chester County DA Attempt to Criminalize Politics Thwarted
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Chester County DA, Deb Ryan, following in the footsteps of her predecessor, has tried to criminalize pipeline politics but has failed.Hydraulic Fracturing Equals Energy Security: A Ban Would Be Insane
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Department of Energy just issued a comprehensive report about the dangers of banning hydraulic fracturing in this country.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 19, 2021
Natural Gas About to Get Even Cleaner; What Will Fractivists Do?
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: New research developments are coming that will make natural gas burn even cleaner than now, destroying fractivist arguments against it.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 19, 2021
Congressman Fred Keller Explains New Paycheck Protection Program
Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Congressman Fred Keller recently spoke with the Wyoming County Chamber of Commerce about the new version of the Paycheck Protection Program.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2021
Philadelphia Has A Great Future, If We But Welcome It – Part III
Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia [Editor’s Note: Garland Thompson and his associate John Linder lay out an extremely compelling case for the Philadelphia economy if only it will have it.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 16, 2021
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2021
Philadelphia Has A Great Future, If We But Welcome It – Part II
Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia [Editor’s Note: Garland Thompson and his associate John Linder lay out an extremely compelling case for the Philadelphia economy if only it will have it.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 14, 2021
Philadelphia Has A Great Future, If We But Welcome It – Part I
Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia [Editor’s Note: Garland Thompson and his associate John Linder lay out an extremely compelling case for the Philadelphia economy if only it will have it.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 14, 2021
PennEast Pipeline Takes Another Step Forward in PA
Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … [Editor’s Note: There was a Pennsylvania DEP virtual hearing on thee PennEast Pipeline project this week and the need for the project was demonstrated.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 13, 2021
Federal Leasing Ban Would Be Completely Counterproductive
George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. [Editor’s Note: The proposed Federal leasing ban would be completely counterproductive both environmentally and economically.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 12, 2021
Farmers Boosted Big-Time by Marcellus Shale Gas Development
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Farmers and landowners have ben helped tremendously by the economics of Marcellus Shale development, which are highly positive.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 9, 2021
DRBC Lawsuit Finally Going to Trial After Five Years!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Federal Judge Robert Mariani has just issued an opinion that will, after five years, finally result in the DRBC lawsuit going to trial!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 8, 2021
Dark Waters Is A Reminder of the Dark Side of Fractivism
Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. [Editor’s Note: Victor Furman does an insightful movie review on Mark Ruffalo’s Dark Waters film, which seems to employ some role reversals.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 7, 2021
Pennsylvania DEP Policy Director Calls State Rep Environmental Criminal!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Pennsylvania DEP Policy Director Jessica Shirley attacked State Rep. Scott Perry and labeled him an “environmental criminal” yesterday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 6, 2021
Truckers Making It Happen in Gas Fields of Northeast Pennsylvania
Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Truckers are key to the energy industry and so much else. They are the critical path for delivering food and supplying the gas industry.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 5, 2021
Phil Murphy Proves Just How Much of An Unprincipled Pander Bear He Is
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Phil Murphy, an obviously confused panderbear, is trying to wiggle out of his DRBC vote on Gibbstown with a patently silly excuse.]Fracking Is Delivering Everything Good It Promised and Much More for PA
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … An opinion piece in LehighValleyLive.com illustrates the shallowness of so much we see written about fracking by folks who don’t research.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 28, 2020
University of Pittsburgh Grabs $2.5 Million to Find Missing Fracking Link?
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: The University of Pittsburgh is being given $2.5million by Tom Wolf to study but one possible cause of childhood cancer.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 17, 2020
Impact Fees Help Keep the Roofs Over the Heads of Residents
Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Marcellus Shale impact fees help homebuyers with much needed upgrades and repairs, assuring they will be able to keep roofs over their heads.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 16, 2020
Wolf Called Out on “Blatant Disregard for the Legislature”
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania’s arrogant but hapless trust-funder Governor is shunting aside the state legislature in his quest to impose RGGI.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 15, 2020
PARSS and Cabot Partner to Do Provide Tech for Rural Schools
George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. [Editor’s Note: PARSS (the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools) and Cabot are working together to bring technology to rural schools!]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 15, 2020
Lake Apopka Natural Gas District Promotes Gas As the Best Gift Out There
Connie MellinNatural Gas NOW“PAShaleAdvocate” Lake Apopka Natural Gas District says switching to natural gas can save you as much money in a year as most spend on Christmas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 11, 2020
DRBC Approves LNG Project: Fractivist Shills Whine Out
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Lo and behold, the DRBC found a spine and approved the Gibbstown LNG project over the objections of the Delaware PovertyKeeper, et al..- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 10, 2020
REV LNG Moves Natural Gas from Pennsylvania Where It’s Needed!
… [Editor’s Note: REV LNG takes gas produced in PA, liquifies it, trucks it through NY and crosses into Canada to supply a ship moving cargo to Detroit.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 9, 2020
Propane Exports Help Grow the Supply; Why Is This So Hard to Grasp?
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The lessons of Economics 101 never seem to be learned, especially when it comes to subjects of natural gas and propane exports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 9, 2020
RLE Enterprises and the Natural Gas Development Supply Chain
Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor’s Note: RLE Enterprises is a critical part of the natural gas development supply chain that exists throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 8, 2020
The DRBC Taking: What It’s Worth in Real Dollars to Landowners
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Landgate, a service offered by the Rice brothers, helps discern the value of mineral rights and it shows how much the DRBC taking is worth.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 3, 2020
Tall Pines Forest of Lights Lifts Spirits in A Dark Year
Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor’s Note: Tall Pines Players Club in Friendsville creates a Forest of Lights for the Christmas season with a little help from Cabot ticket purchases.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 1, 2020
RGGI Being Promoted with Climate Misinformation and Scare Tactics
Gregory WrightstoneGeologist and author of “Inconvenient Facts” .. … [Editor’s Note: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is pushing a new carbon tax called RGGI onto homeowners and businesses by using fear and misinformation.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 28, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – November 28, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 23, 2020
DRBC Lawsuit Update: Still Waiting on the Federal Court
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The DRBC lawsuit proceeds and the following offers a quick update and a plea to support the fight for all our mineral rights.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 20, 2020
Hunters Sharing the Harvest Off and Running Again to Serve Others
Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Hunters Sharing the Harvest is, yet again, geared up to serve the poor with donated venison from a great program supported by the gas industry.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 18, 2020
Laterals Just Keep Getting Longer, As Gas Footprints Shrink
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Laterals just keep getting longer as drilling moves out underground and stays confined to a small well pad on the surface.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 16, 2020
Shale POWER Will Help Businesses Grow by Supplying the Industry
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Shale POWER is a new initiative designed to help businesses find a place in the shale gas industry supply chain and to grow.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 13, 2020
Talen Energy Corporatists Feed the Crocodile Hoping to Be Eaten Last
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Talen Energy has sold out to the Sierra Club in an attempt to feed the extremist crocodile knowing consumers will pay for the error.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 12, 2020
Natural Gas Industry Rises to the Occasion Time and Again
George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. [Editor’s Note: The natural gas industry has repeatedly jumped in during times of community crisis to help meet the needs of the regions in which it operates.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 11, 2020
Blue Collar Centrists Won the Day in Pennsylvania
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Pennsylvania election may still be up in the air Presidentially speaking, but it is clear blue collar centrists won the day over radicals.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 10, 2020
Restrooms, Fresh Water and Economic Opportunities
Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Opportunities abound in the shale region, including the providing of such critically important services as portable restrooms in the field.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 10, 2020
RGGI Carbon Tax on Pennsylvanians Being Pushed by Wolf’s DEP
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf has his nose up in the air again as tells Pennsylvanians RGGI and a 50% increase in electric rates will be good for them!]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 9, 2020
UGI Energy Services Bethlehem LNG Facility Now Online
Connie MellinNatural Gas NOW“PAShaleAdvocate” The UGI Bethlehem liquified natural gas facility is now online and ready to supply LNG to meet demands of power plants during peak times.Tom Wolf Wants Pennsylvania in RGGI and Higher Electric Bills
... … … [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf arrogantly demands Pennsylvania join RGGI to pay 50% higher electric bills like the rest of the Northeast states in the suicide pact.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 7, 2020
Cabot Plans to Spend $200K This Winter Helping Others
Natalie DeCarioExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor Comment: Cabot Oil & Gas has plans to donate some $200,000 to charitable causes this winter, monies being set aside to help others basic needs.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 5, 2020
New Fortress Facility Is Keystone to Appalachian Gas Development
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. The New Fortress export facility is being fought by the Delaware PovertyKeeper because it’s key to so much regarding natural gas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 4, 2020
Pennsylvania Is Ready for Industry and Job Growth Thanks to Act 66
George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. Act 66 is paving the way to long-term jobs and economic development by providing tax credits to petrochemical production facilities in Pennsylvania.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 2, 2020
DEP Trashes ET for Following the Direction It Provided!
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) “ET Go Home” seems to be the message as the Pennsylvania DEP engages in shameless projection against ET to distract from its own failures.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 31, 2020
UDRBC Candidate Night: Bognet Exposes Canadian Rich Kid Cartwright
Upper DelawareRiver Basin Citizens …. …. The UDRBC held another very successful candidate night last week and Jim Bognet exposed Cong.Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – October 31, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 29, 2020
Painterland; Where Dreams Come True Thanks to Natural Gas
Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Painterland is the name of a very special farm where natural gas and organic dairy products are still produced thanks to natural gas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 28, 2020
Fracking No Longer A Swear Word in Media As Biden Gets Pushback
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Something remarkable has happened thanks to Joe Biden, whose fracking debacle has gotten pushback and much deserved media attention.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 26, 2020
Snitz Creek Spill of Harmless Bentonite Sends DEP Into Silly Snit
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) PA DEP hassles Mariner East 2 pipeline project over Snitz Creek spill of what amounts to harmless kitty litter.Welding Students Learn on Pipe Donated by Cabot Oil and Gas
Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … This post on welding education at SCCTC is brought to you from Becky Snyder, manager of Cabot’s pipe yard near its headquarters in Montrose.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 22, 2020
RGGI Is A Really, Really Bad Deal for Pennsylvania
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Our buddy, Kevin Mooney, has written as good an article on RGGI as I’ve read and he illustrates what a really bad deal it is for PA!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 21, 2020
Mariner East Keeps Winning in Court As Opponents Play Politics
Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … [Editor’s Note: Yet again, Mariner East prevails in court because opponents are playing politics while paying zero attention to the letter of the law.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 20, 2020
4th Circuit Democrat Judges Once Again Stop MVP Construction
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Nothing a President does is as important as the hudges he appoints and the 4th Circuit permitted harassment of the MVP pipeline proves it..Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – October 17, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 15, 2020
Wheeler EPA Cost Benefit Reform A Bipartisan Success If Allowed to Be!
Doug McLinkoVice-Chair, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, Commissioners …. …. Andrew Wheeler is bringing real cost-benefit analysis to the Environmental Protection Agency regulations and it’s long overdue.Joe Biden Tells Fracking Lies But, Was It Then, or Is It Now?
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Joe Biden changes policy positions like others change clothes but was he lying about fracking then or now; that’s the question before us.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 11, 2020