On Saturday July 9 there will be a homecoming at the Creston school at 2 P. M. Bring your family, friends, pictures and memories and share them all. It was reported that Ted Grim will be grilling special hot dogs. The next ATV poker run will be on Saturday July 30 so get your machine checked out so that it won’t bread down on the trail.
Rain returned to the Creston area with nearby areas reporting floods. The river got muddy but has cleared some.
Large numbers of logs continue to come from the Munday area including some oak logs that seem to have been cut long before the proper time.
Charles Russell is doing well up at the Minnie Hamilton Extended Care Unit. He noted that Congressional Medal of Honor WW II soldier Woody Williams had passed away. Charlie’s father was a soldier in WW I. Rick Sampson was there providing live music for the residents.
Sis & Cooter Marks & family from Ohio are spending the weekend at the camp.
It was recently reported that young folks, especially males who have a low rick for bad outcomes from the Wuhan Kung Flu virus have a 44 fold increase for myocarditis after taking the Moderna vaccine and a 13 fold increase from the Pfizer medicine.
There continues to be major concern world wide about food shortages which means starvation in other parts of the world that are controlled by the Marxists. Folks in Europe were upset that, likely at the behest of Archer Daniels Midland, the ruling Junta here continues to insist that corn be used to make motor fuel instead of being used for food. In the last 6 months at lease 90 food processing plants in the US have been destroyed and, of course, there is the fiasco with the baby formula facility that was run pretty much for federal programs. Brian Deese, a high level advisor to the present administration said in relation to high fuel prices, “This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm.” Liberal must mean like Mao Tse Tung, Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot.
It was reported that ACNR (Murray Energy) is going to mine some coal in Wetzel County.
Toby Rice, the CEO at EQT gave a presentation at New Martinsville Thursday evening. He noted that West Virginia had more potential than Pennsylvania and that the company, now the largest gas producer in the nation, has 1.6 million acres of leases and that EQT will increase activity in W. Va. by 25%. He noted that just four nations, United States, Russia, Iran & Qatar have 2/3rds of the world’s gas and the Marcellus/ Utica shale area is the world’s largest although, apparently, EQT does not intend to pay world class oil & gas royalties. He noted that the Appalachian gas price now is lower than the Henry Hub price (Louisiana) and that the gap will increase because of lack of pipelines & that presently 7bcf/day [billion cubic feet] is being held up by lack of pipelines and that Russia likely spends $1 billion/year funding the green weenies & their friends in government to stop pipelines, drilling & hydraulic fracturing to “eliminate the competition”.
Rice noted that in this county there is now an energy crisis and that, until matters change, it will get worse and that the situation in Europe is now “dire”. The “green energy ” didn’t work out and now coal plants there are being put back into service and that natural gas in Europe brings $40/mcf. He noted that LNG could be sent to Europe for $9/mcf.
He noted that 15% of EQT’s gas goes to export as LNG [liquified natural gas] which is 5 bcf/day that goes to the Gulf of Mexico. Rice also gave the boiler plate “global warming” & ESG that must be said to remain in “Polite Society”. He noted that the company had acquired 5,000 new leases.
TransCanada/TC Energy/Columbia Gas has had a crew working on the pipeline that goes between Creston & Burning Springs and transports natural gas to the export hubs.
The W. Va. Supreme Court runed in a case styled SWN Production Co. & Equinor [The Kingdom of Norway] vs. Kellam, et al. that the Tawney case decided in Roane County Circuit Court is still valid and that it is not proper to take deductions from oil & gas royalties that are not expressly allowed in oil & gas leases. Apparently some of the big boys are not happy. Then the US Supreme Court ruled that the EPA was way out of line trying to shut down power plants without express congressional approval. W. Va. Attorney General was the lead man on the case & some have gone ballistic. Of course the flaring of natural gas in Siberia, Nigeria and other third world countries and the huge increase in coal use in China & India is “just fine” as, it would seem, that air goes to ‘another planet’.
Several of Steve Loudin’s family are spending the weekend of the fourth at his/their place.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil dropped to $104.76/bbl. with condensate fetching $90.76/bbl. and Marcellus & Utica light bringing $95.76 and medium $104.76.bbl.
