- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 19, 2019
Federal Court Patience with Delaware Riverkeeper Antics Growing Thin?
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … Delaware Riverkeeper antics in Federal court appear to exhausting the patience of some judges who are saying get out of here.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 17, 2019
NTIEC Energy Camp Sparks Interest Among Local Students
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … The Northern Tier Industrial & Education Consortium (NTIEC) just gave students from four counties some real life experience in natural gas development.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 15, 2019
New Natural Gas Record for Power Generation Set
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … A new natural gas record was recently set for use of this energy source in producing electric power that sustains our way of living in this nation, says EIA.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2019
Dietrich Theater: Sustainability Takes on New Meaning at Cultural Center
Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … The Dietrich Theater in Tunkhannock is taking on a whole new life; one of sustainability tied to that of the community as a whole with help from natural gas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2019
Trump claims credit for cracker plant during PA visit
President Trump boasted Tuesday afternoon about his administration’s efforts to “revive” the nation’s energy and manufacturing sectors during a visit to Royal Dutch Shell’s ethane cracker plant construction site in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 13, 2019
Northern Access Pipeline Project Gets Another “Nyet” from Cuomo’s DEC
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Northern Access Pipeline developer NFG has received another denial of water quality certification from Andrew Cuomo’s DEC but the project will get built.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 12, 2019
Denial Is the Natural Order of Things in the Empire State
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … New York State is in a state of denial regarding its dependence on natural gas, refusing to admit the facts of life and committed to preaching its virtues.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 12, 2019
Fes moves up shutdown of Bruce Mansfield Unit 3
FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. (Fes) announced Friday it is moving up its timetable to shutdown its remaining coal-fired unit in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, due to a “lack of economic viability in current market conditions.” The company has notified grid overseer PJM Interconnection Bruce Mansfield Plant Unit 3 will be deactivated on Nov.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 9, 2019
Wall Street Journal Ignores the Relevant Facts on Methane Leaks
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Wall Street Journal just delivered what could be considered a hit piece on natural gas for methane leaks.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 9, 2019
Williams Throws Its Support Behind Pennsylvania’s Dairy Industry
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Williams, the pipeline company delivering Marcellus Shale gas to so many urban consumers, is also supporting the Pennsylvania dairy industry in a big way.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 8, 2019
Dimock Pigs to Rigs Lawyers Lose Control of Dimock Client?
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Dimock pigs to rigs lawsuit continues to move backward for the attorneys who brought it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 8, 2019
Already Operating Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Prevails Again in Court
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Atlantic Sunrise pipeline just prevailed again in Federal court over a very well funded Sierra Club attempt to thwart future pipeline development.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 7, 2019
Marcellus Shale Impact Fees Being Used to Save Lives
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Marcellus Shale Impact Fees (Act 13 funds) are being used to train emergency service providers to save lives in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 6, 2019
Society of Environmental Journalists Is About Anything But Journalism
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Society of Environmental Journalists isn’t about journalism. It’s about spreading the Green Gospel and achieving earthly salvation for the gentry class.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 5, 2019
Settlement allows Midwest refiners to go east
A major gasoline pipeline has reached an agreement to give Midwestern refiners greater access to Pennsylvania markets, Kallanish Energy learns. Houston-based Buckeye Partners has reached an agreement to allow Midwestern refiners to ship more fuel farther into Pennsylvania on its Laurel pipeline, a 350-mile line which historically was used by Philadelphia refineries to transport motor fuel and heating oil west across Pennsylvania.DRBC Water Dependence Was Greatly Exaggerated All Along!
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … DRBC water dependence claims have ranged from 15 to 22 million people over the years but the real number was always much lower and the DRBC has admitted it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 3, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Best Picks of the Week August 3, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- August 1, 2019
Pipeline Development Helps Return Lackawanna River to Glory
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Lackawanna River, once no more than a polluted coal region artery, is being restored thanks to a conservation group, a utility and a pipeline builder.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 1, 2019
Construction of Susquehanna County CDL School Illustrates Sustainability
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … The construction of a new Susquehanna County CDL school illustrates the contributions of the natural gas industry to rural community sustainability.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 29, 2019
Childhood Cancer Smear, Funded by Heinz, Wiped Away with Facts
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Childhood cancer shouldn’t be a political plaything but the Heinz Enmdowments is funding a smear campaign against shale, playing the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 27, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Best Picks of the Week July 27, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- July 23, 2019
Renewable Generation Reality; It’s Mostly Meaningless
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Renewable generation amounts to little in the big picture and must be backed up by dispatchable energy from sources such as natural gas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 23, 2019
CDL Drivers Needed in Gas Country and SCCTC Responds!
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … CDL drivers are needed in Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties and earn good wages thanks to gas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 21, 2019
Workforce Development in Susquehanna County Takes Place On its Own
Johnny Williams Bradford County Writer Workforce development is a pre-occupation of politicians in most places but in Susquehanna County all it requires is for government to stay out of the way.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 20, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Best Picks of the Week – July 20, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- July 19, 2019
EnergizePA Initiative Promises to Stimulate More Economic Development
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Energize PA will not only enable more natural gas use in the communities where it is produced, but also stimulate additional rural economic development.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 18, 2019
Natural Gas Politics Behind Pennsylvania Pipeline Opposition
Bill Godsey CEO, Geo Logic Environmental Services, LLC Former geologist for the Texas Railroad Commission … … Natural gas politics is what’s really behind pipeline opposition in Pennsylvania.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 18, 2019
Phillip Flagg, Radical Son with No Job, Is the Epitome of the Fractivist
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Phillip Flagg is a radical 25-year old fractivist with no job but a serial protesting career of seeking attention under the guise of being morally superior.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 17, 2019
Pennsylvania DEP, While Fighting DRBC Fracking, Admits Gas Industry Protects Water Resources
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Pennsylvania DEP admits the state’s gas industry is protecting water resources. Yet, it has signed onto the DRBC fracking ban.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 15, 2019
Manhattan Power Outage Causes Cuomo to Now Want Grid Redundancy
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … A Manhattan power outage is forcing New York politicians to confront energy reality. The grid now needs redundancy Cuomo says as he fights gas power plants.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 12, 2019
Toby Rice, the New Head of EQT, Wanted to Drill Here First
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Toby Rice, the young, hard-charging guy who just won a war to take over EQT, the nation’s largest natural gas producer, wanted to drill in the DRBC region.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 11, 2019
Gas Drilling Today: So Many Innovations, So Much Expertise
Madison WeaverCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … Gas drilling today is a story of innovation and companies such as Cabot Oil and Gas have been growing their expertise every day for many years now.Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – July 6, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- July 5, 2019
Delaware PovertyKeeper Loses in Commonwealth Court Yet Again
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Delaware PovertyKeeper attempts to tie up the shale gas industry in litigation continue apace, but also continuing are losses in Commonwealth Court.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 4, 2019
Tax-Exempt Foundations, America’s Aristocracy, Threaten All Our Rights
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Tax-exempt foundations, the vehicles used by America’s aristocracy to exercise undue influence over our public policy, threaten our Constitutional rights.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 3, 2019
UGI unit acquiring Columbia Midstream for $1.28B
UGI Corp. has announced its UGI Energy Services unit is acquiring Columbia Midstream Group (Cmg) from a subsidiary of TC Energy for roughly $1.28 billion, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 1, 2019
The Local Natural Gas Benefits of Local Natural Gas
Madison WeaverCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … Natural gas benefits are many to the environment, our energy security and the economies of both rural and urban areas, but local benefits stand out bigly.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 30, 2019
Pa impact fee collections set record
Pennsylvania’s impact fee on natural gas wells yielded its highest payout in the seven years the levy has been collected – surpassing the previous record by roughly $25 million, the state Public Utility Commission (Puc) said last week.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 29, 2019
Pennsylvania Impact Tax Is About the Best Severance Tax Imaginable
Johnny Williams Bradford County Writer Johnny Williams reports on the huge amounts of money Pennsylvania’s impact tax a/k/a impact fee has already generated, notwithstanding Gov.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 29, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 29, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- June 26, 2019
Building Trades Rally Against Delaware County Pipeline Moratorium!
Kurt Knaus SpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … A Delaware County pipeline moratorium has rightly raised the ire of the building trades in the area, whose interests are being sacrificed on the green altar.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 26, 2019
Pseg Power selling interest in coal-fired plants
Public Service Enterprise Group’s Pseg Power unit has agreed to sell its 776-megawatt, or 21.66%, interest in the Keystone and Conemaugh coal-fired power plants in Western Pennsylvania, plus related assets, including the assumption of liabilities.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 23, 2019
Take Notice DRBC: “Sue Me” Approach to the Takings Clause Is Untenable.
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The U.S. Supreme Court has issued an opinion making it easier to go to Federal court for relief under the Takings Clause.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 22, 2019
The Despicable Attempt to Tie Childhood Cancer to SWPA Fracking
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Childhood cancer is an awful thing but even worse are the con artists who attempt to exploit for anti-gas ideological purposes.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 22, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 22, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- June 20, 2019
Why Did CNBC Go to Fractivists to Trash Marcellus Shale Revolution?
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … CNBC recently did a special on America’s energy revolution and inexplicably went to credibility challenged fractivists for balance, trashing Marcellus Shale.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
EDGE Virtual Pipeline Company Produces and Delivers Its First LNG
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The EDGE virtual pipeline company has produced and delivered its first Marcellus Shale LNG shipment.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
Energize PA Will Help Distribute More Natural Gas for Use Here at Home
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Energize PA will enable more natural gas use in the very communities, mostly rural, where it is produced, adding still another benefit from its production.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
As for Fractivist Politicians, Watch What They Do, Not What They Say
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … There’s an awful lot of green pandering and talk these days by fractivist politicians, but watch what they do, not what they say.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2019
Maryland AG asks federal judge to dismiss Columbia suit
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by TransCanada’s Columbia Gas Transmission unit that wants to build a natural gas pipeline through three miles of the Maryland countryside state officials have rejected.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2019
Gibbstown LNG Deal Shows More New Jersey Duplicity Than DRBC
Garland L. Thompson, Esq. Journalist and Author, Philadelphia Garland Thompson explains what really happened with the Gibbstown LNG deal. It reveals New Jersey duplicity more so than it does DRBC double-dealing.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2019
Impact Fee (Tax) Has Huge Impact on Pennsylvania’s Rural Counties
Haley CitroneCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … The Marcellus Shale Impact Fee has been a highly innovative and effective version of a severance tax.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 17, 2019
Is Philadelphia Finally on Its Way to Becoming the Next Houston?
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Philadelphia, which is officially on record against fracking, may finally be on its way to becoming the next Houston.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 16, 2019
Energize PA Pipe Investment Program Would Reinvigorate Rural PA
Johnny Williams Bradford County Writer Johnny Williams reports on the Energize PA bill now before the Pennsylvania legislature and which would help further reinvigorating rural Pennsylvania.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 15, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 15, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- June 14, 2019
Delaware County Plays Politics with Pennsylvania Pipeline Infrastructure
Kurt Knaus SpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Delaware County, Pennsylvania, is playing politics with pipeline infrastructure critical to the economic future of the region and the Commonwealth as a whole.Double-Dealing DRBC Shows All Its Cards
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The double-dealing DRBC just showed the world what it’s all about; rewarding the lower valley with development while proposing to stop it entirely upriver.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 13, 2019
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Developer Intends to Fight and Win!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The developer of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Dominion Energy, says it’s just begun to fight and intends to win and win soon in its bid to complete it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2019