Regulations: Gathering versus Transmission Lines
Transmission lines like Mariner East 2 have to go through lengthy public processes with heavy oversight. They go a step beyond gathering lines, which are largely unregulated. Diverse sources of energy generation have historically drawn attention to ranging issue areas around production and gathering methods of oil and gas. Increasingly, this energy development is underway…
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EIA Highlights Energy Connectivity in Appalachia
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released a new study today on the natural gas liquids (NGL) processing and production capacity in the Appalachian region. The study underscores the progress of the NGL processing capacity over the past decade and the role pipelines have in bolstering energy connectivity throughout the Northeast region. The study details…
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Common Misconceptions
There are some serious misconceptions regarding the Mariner East pipeline projects. First, “spills” and “inadvertent returns” are not the same phenomena. Across news and social media coverage, this narrative of the spills across Pennsylvania liked with the pipeline has obscured real understanding of what we’re actually talking about here. According to the former head of the…
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Introducing the Pennsylvania Pipeline Review
There has been a lot of chatter about the Mariner East projects across the news outlets and social media platforms in Pennsylvania and through the region. There is a real need to inject facts into this conversation to elevate this chatter to educated understanding of what this project entails. That is the purpose of this…
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