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The Marcellus and Utica shale formations have catalyzed regional energy connectivity and economic development across Appalachia. The U.S. Energy Information Administration released a report today detailing how “Shale gas production in the Appalachia region has increased rapidly since 2012, driving an overall increase in U.S. natural gas production.” The report stresses that “Drilling wells in…
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Throughout energy infrastructure developments, professional protestors and fringe activist bloggers have spread misconceptions about pipeline construction and linked regulatory oversight. Most recently, bloggers have asserted that given incidents in Ohio leading the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to pause pipeline construction, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) should follow suit. Energy oversight does not…
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The Marcellus Shale Coalition recently posted a blog detailing how energy infrastructure in Pennsylvania impacted local economic growth and environmental progress. The piece highlighted the misinformation spread through two recent reports put out by the NRDC and the Clean Air Task Force; explaining that “Both the NRDC and Clean Air Task Force, backed by deep-pocketed,…
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Energy infrastructure projects in Pennsylvania and across the country have been confronted by anti-infrastructure protestors opposing development through any means necessary. These efforts have ranged from incidents of eco-terrorism, sabotage and vandalism, collectively putting ideological causes over public safety concerns. In Pennsylvania alone, nearly thirty protesters have been arrested protesting the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline under…
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Looking at local opposition efforts to the Mariner East 2 pipeline, fragmented township-level protests have become increasingly coordinated through efforts by national groups, like Food & Water Watch. In the November 7 local municipal elections, The Daily Local News reported that “grassroots campaigning helped to put candidates over the top in West Goshen and Uwchlan…
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Anti-infrastructure activists across Pennsylvania have hyperbolized arguments against pipeline construction based on ideological arguments about their presumed local safety implications. Pipelines are the safest mode to transport energy resources. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Safety Administration details that “Although pipelines exist in all fifty states, most of us are unaware that this…
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Pipeline projects across Appalachia catalyze regional workforce development and economic growth. One pipeline that has factored into this pro-growth trend in Pennsylvania has been the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline, which is poised to bring millions of dollars into the local economy and already employs over 350 people. On Monday, the U.S. Appeal for the District of…
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Across the country, anti-infrastructure groups have underscored baseless speculation on the dangers of inadvertent returns linked to energy infrastructure construction. A recent piece by Bill Godsey, owner and president of Geo Logic Environmental Services and former geologist for the Texas Railroad Commission, focused on speculation surrounding the Mariner East 2 Pipeline and underscored that it…
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Protestors along the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline have been using any means necessary to block construction efforts. Over the course of the last couple weeks, 29 people have been arrested in their efforts to hinder law enforcement’s efforts to maintain safe construction of the infrastructure. In the most recent episode of this saga, protestors set up a pancake breakfast next…
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It has become a persistent trend of late to see ideological anti-infrastructure arguments from fringe groups against pipeline construction. These arguments are often based on opinion rather than fact, and have been pointed toward local municipal elections in Pennsylvania in an effort to support candidates against infrastructure development in the state. A recent piece in…
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