CEA’s Andrew Browning was interviewed by Wyoming Public Radio following the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s annual meeting.
The Obama Administration’s decision to temporarily halt construction on part of the 1,200-mile Dakota Access Pipeline has the oil industry on edge. It was evident at the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s annual meeting, where the pipeline protests cast a shadow over an industry struggling amid low oil prices.
Read more – Wyoming Public Radio
With the completion of the Cornerstone Pipeline, natural gas liquids can now be transported in a safer, more environmentally friendly way by removing tanker trucks from the road while increasing energy supplies to businesses.
Right now some 130 trucks a day unload 25,000 barrels of condensate at the Canton refinery. Each truck carries about 190 barrels, an amount the pipeline can ship in two minutes, Stechschulte said.
Read more – The Independent
With the construction of new pipelines, states across the region will be able to expand their power generating fleet with new natural gas power power plants. In addition, these pipelines would also create more economic opportunities by supporting the expansion of manufacturers and other energy-intensive businesses.
Officials said oil and natural gas development created about $40 billion worth of economic development in the Marcellus and Utica shale region, but they know a series of interstate pipeline projects still under federal review would generate billions more in additional activity.
Read more – The Intelligencer
David Taylor, President of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, discussed how investing in our energy infrastructure can help regional manufacturers become more cost competitive by having access to more affordable supplies of energy.
“For some manufacturers, energy is the largest cost input in their product,” Taylor said, adding the decision by Shell to build its ethane cracker in Beaver County can attract other manufacturers and new jobs to Western Pennsylvania.
“Pennsylvania will help make the United States an energy superpower, but all of this depends of increasing the energy infrastructure,” he said.
Read more – Observer-Reporter
Manufacturers across Pennsylvania and the region can become more competitive globally with access to affordable, reliable supplies of energy. Currently, a lack of pipeline capacity has curtailed their access to additional energy resources.
Pipelines are not new, said Dan Weaver, president and executive director of PIOGA. Since the first pipeline transporting crude oil in 1865, 60,000 miles of pipeline have been installed in Pennsylvania.
But that’s not enough to keep up with the rising production of gas, he said.
Read more – Pittsburgh Business Times
CEA Vice President Michael Whatley was recently featured in E&E following his presentation at the Southern States Energy Board.
The greater Southeast has transitioned to an “all of the above” strategy when it comes to electricity on the grid, but its states continue to fight federal regulation with “both hands tied behind their backs,” members of the Southern States Energy Board (SSEB) said at its annual meeting held here yesterday.
Read more – E&E News
Consumer Energy Alliance’s solar incentive analysis was featured in an article in the Sun Sentinel.
Solar energy is getting more attention than ever in Florida thanks to two ballot measures this election season. But the attention isn’t translating into increased sales just yet, solar providers say, citing fear among potential customers that solar systems will become more expensive to own if Amendment 1, the utility industry-backed “Smart Solar” measure, wins a “yes” vote on Nov. 8.
Read more – Sun Sentinel
Consumer Energy Alliance’s solar incentive analysis was featured in an op-ed by North Carolina State Rep. Chris Millis.
Imagine for a moment you are a North Carolina hog farmer, and you live adjacent to a gentleman who raises chickens, and that the meat produced from both costs the same per pound.
Read more – The Daily Caller
Just a few short years ago, farmers across the upper Midwest were faced with crops withering in fields or rotting in storage as a result of increased transportation costs and lack of rail capacity due to oil being shipped by rail. Now, with another shortage of pipeline capacity, farmers may be faced with another round of economic hardship.
“As volumes continue to build, so will the pressure on the constrained pipelines system,” Kevin Birn, a director at IHS Energy in Calgary, said by e-mail Wednesday. “At some point in the coming months those volumes could very well overtake available capacity and increased movements of rail should be expected.”
Read more – Bloomberg
Pipelines are a crucial piece of our country’s energy infrastructure, ensuring manufacturers receive energy to make goods and families receive energy to heat their homes and cook their food.
“It is so important to connect production to distribution. Build the infrastructure and demand from markets will follow,” Gary Heminger said during the opening minutes of the opening keynote address.
Read more – Observer-Reporter
