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		<title>PA-OH-WV Shale Permits Oct 12-18: 12 New Wells, 19 Older-Well Moves</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Marcellus/Utica region received 12 new shale well permits last week, October 12-18, up 3 from 9 the week before. Pennsylvania issued 9 of the new permits. Ohio issued 2. And West Virginia issued a single new permit. The drillers who received new-well permits last week were: Antero Resources, Ascent Resources, Expand Energy, Range Resources,...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Allegheny Co. Parental Leave Mandate Reaches Out-of-County Drillers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Allegheny County]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Allegheny County, home to Pittsburgh, just became the first county in the nation to force private employers to pay for 12 weeks of parental leave — at up to 100% of wages, with the employer footing the entire bill. County Executive Sara Innamorato signed the regulation yesterday, two days after County Council approved it 11-4....]]></description>
		
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		<title>NEPA Town Kills 1.6 GW Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus, 7-0 Vote</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another one bites the dust in northeastern Pennsylvania. On Wednesday night, Archbald Borough Council (Lackawanna County) voted 7-0 to deny a zoning request for the Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus, a 14-building AI &#8220;hyperscale&#8221; project proposed for roughly 575 acres on the mountainside above Business Route 6. The campus would have needed 1.6 gigawatts (GW)...]]></description>
		
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		<title>PA Plugs 500th Orphan Well Under Shapiro; Ohio Plugged 2.4X More</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) threw another party, this time to celebrate the 500th orphan and abandoned well plugged since Josh Shapiro became governor in January 2023. Good for them. Seriously. But we can&#8217;t help noticing that Ohio plugged 480 orphan wells in 2025 alone, nearly as many as PA has plugged...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Molecules to the Middle East: Qatar Buys U.S. LNG Thru 2054</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Exporting]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a sentence we never thought we&#8217;d write: Qatar is buying American LNG. Qatar sits on top of the world&#8217;s largest natural gas field and, until this year, was one of the two or three biggest LNG exporters on the planet. Yet this week Cheniere Energy announced two long-term deals to supply state-owned QatarEnergy with...]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Westmoreland Group Tells Shale Antis “Enough Is Enough”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Armstrong County]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new sheriff in town. Well, technically a retired police chief. On Thursday evening (Oct. 22), more than 150 residents gathered in Penn Township, Westmoreland County, for the kickoff of the Citizens Energy Council (CEC), a grassroots group that supports natural gas drilling and openly pushes back against the anti-fossil fuel activists who have...]]></description>
		
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		<title>License to Drill Act Signed: Drillers Pay $12,850 a Permit Thru 2037</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/license-to-drill-act-signed-drillers-pay-12850-a-permit-thru-2037/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a rare thing in Washington: a bill that passed both the House and Senate without a fight, helps drillers, and doesn&#8217;t cost taxpayers a dime. On Tuesday, President Trump signed the License to Drill Act into law. The new law keeps alive a 20-year-old program called the Permit Processing Improvement Fund (PPIF). Under the...]]></description>
		
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		<title>MDN&#8217;s Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, Oct 23, 2026</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/mdns-energy-stories-of-interest-fri-oct-23-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OTHER U.S. REGIONS: New Jersey’s RGGI leakage warning applies to New York too; A fuel cell energy project is in the works for Buchanan County; New York’s fracking ban leaves community to crumble while Pa. neighbors boom with gas millions; NATIONAL: U.S. natural gas futures edge up after storage data; USA crude oil stocks drop...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kinder Morgan Greenlights $3.1B Pipe to Flow M-U Gas to Southeast</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/kinder-morgan-greenlights-3-1b-pipe-to-flow-m-u-gas-to-southeast/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kinder Morgan, the country&#8217;s biggest natural gas pipeline operator (it moves about 40% of all the gas produced in the U.S.), reported record third-quarter results yesterday. Nice for shareholders. But the real news for MDN readers is buried in the project list. Kinder&#8217;s Southern Natural Gas (SNG) unit has made a final investment decision (FID)...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Homer City Update: First Turbine Set, Amazon Plan Now Under Review</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/homer-city-update-first-turbine-set-amazon-plan-now-under-review/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Homer City Energy Campus in Indiana County, PA — the largest natural gas-fired power plant under construction anywhere in the U.S. — just ticked off a few nice milestones. Construction contractor Kiewit marked one year on the job, the workforce has topped 2,000, and the first of seven giant gas turbines is now sitting...]]></description>
		
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		<title>NextEra 3Q: Dominion Fight Heats Up; Gas Hubs, Shale Buying Grow</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/nextera-3q-dominion-fight-heats-up-gas-hubs-shale-buying-grow/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NextEra Energy, the largest electric power company in North America (and parent of Florida Power &#38; Light), reported third-quarter 2026 results yesterday. Adjusted earnings came in at $2.592 billion ($1.24 per share), up 9.7% per share from a year ago. But the real news came during the Q&#38;A with Wall Street analysts. Just two days...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Charm Offensive Flops: Va. Leaders Pile on Dominion/NextEra Merger</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/charm-offensive-flops-va-leaders-pile-on-dominion-nextera-merger/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So much for the charm offensive. Five weeks after NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy sweetened their $67 billion merger with bigger bill credits, 1,000 new jobs and a shiny new Richmond office tower (see Sweeter Deal: NextEra/Dominion Add Credits, Jobs to Woo Virginia), Virginia&#8217;s top leaders and the state&#8217;s own utility regulators are lined up...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ridgeline Nears Startup; Court Shreds Ruling Against TVA Gas Plant</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One year ago today, we told you construction had started on Enbridge&#8217;s 122-mile Ridgeline Expansion Project in Tennessee (see Construction Begins on 122-Mile East Tennessee Pipeline Project). Now the pipe is just about ready to flow. Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI) reports that East Tennessee Natural Gas, an Enbridge company, could place Ridgeline into service as...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upper Burrell Planners OK Data Center Rules 5-0; Gas Mandate Stays</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Upper Burrell Township (Westmoreland County, PA) Planning Commission voted 5-0 Tuesday night to recommend the township&#8217;s data center ordinance, handing it to the three township supervisors. The supervisors hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. tonight (Oct. 22), followed by a special meeting to consider adopting it. They&#8217;re racing the clock: the township&#8217;s data...]]></description>
		
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		<title>DNV Raises Long-Term Gas Forecast, Flips N. America to Growth</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/dnv-raises-long-term-gas-forecast-flips-n-america-to-growth/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[DNV, the Norway-based testing, certification, and risk management company, recently released its 10th annual Energy Transition Outlook (ETO). MDN has written about these outlooks before, and they usually read like a slow-motion obituary for fossil fuels. Not so much this year, at least for natural gas. DNV raised its long-term forecast for global gas demand,...]]></description>
		
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