Bubble bubble, oil and trouble
Fascinating and disturbing piece in the Atlantic Monthly magazine titled, “What if we never run out of oil?” The upshot being, our desperation for hydrocarbons is so great, that money and geography and...
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In the path of the pipeline
So there is, as you might have seen, a petition to ban the proposed natural gas pipeline through Lancaster County. Sign if if you like; 2,649 people (as of this writing) already have. There are...
View ArticlePipelines over people
I went out to interview a group of neighbors in West Hempfield this week who are now “in the path of the pipeline,” or rather their neighborhood is adjacent to the latest revised route that Williams...
View ArticleEcon 101: Exporting natural gas = higher gas prices
I think I said exactly this in the column a few months back: Overseas, prices for natural gas are far higher than here because they are almost always “oil-linked” — tied to the per-unit energy cost of...
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In the Marcellus gold rush, accidents will happen…
And in today’s least shocking development, traces of fracking chemicals have been identified in drinking water in Bradford County, right smack dab in the heart of fracking country. Gee, I wonder how...
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Once more, with feeling: Just where is the money to reform PA education...
I get tired, sometimes, of saying the same thing over and over and over and over again. I mean, I’m used to it, I have kids. But there are also things you have to repeat over and over and over and...
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Will Gov. Wolf blink in gas tax showdown?
Drove out to Pittsburgh for the weekend to see the Pirates lose to the Washington Nationals Saturday night, ah well. PNC Park, if you’ve never been, remains a complete gem, the weather was awesome, we...
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If the gas industry is ‘on its knees,” whose fault is that?
So the president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, David J. Spigelmyer, was in town to meet with our editorial board yesterday, talking about the health of the industry here in Pennsylvania, the need...
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Could PA budget impasse last into December?
Pennsylvania’s budgetary game of “chicken” continues. And casualties are mounting: State-subsidized pre-kindergarten programs are shutting down, domestic violence shelters are closing their doors and...
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Is Wolf getting played on budget deal?
Well, I stand corrected; I was wrong There’s a first time for everything, I guess. Last week, and previously, I wrote about Pennsylvania’s ongoing budget showdown, suggesting that Gov. Tom Wolf would...
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