Creston News: Swamp fillers and Economy Killers, Welcome to America



Rev. Kevin Gillespie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.

Creston continues to have dry weather which one might consider the start of a drought with dry weather showers.  The rain in Creston Saturday evening did not settle the dust.  Hay harvest both locally & elsewhere is going well and some suggest that even abandoned fields need to be harvested for it might be such a thing that many will have to feed hay this summer as pastures dry up.

The comely Hadley Propst who is a regular caller in Creston was named Little Miss Woodchuck as part of the Wood Festival.  As they say, “Goin’ up the holler, whistle up the dogs, we’re gonna go catch us a ground hog  – ground hog. . . . . .”

Kathleen Cervone went up in Ohio to visit her sister who is undergoing chemotherapy.

Levi Jordan Ferrell, age 29, passed away. He was the son of Christie & the late Albert “Bub” Ferrell.

Charles Edward Postalwait, age 83, of Reedy passed away.  His mother Mabel Mollohan Postalwait Courtney Justice formerly lived in Creston as did his grandfather Lanty Mollohan & other family members.  He was a door gunner on helicopters in Viet Nam “tossing warm metal” at some of Jane Fondu’s “friends”.

Local folks were calling on John Bingman & Florence Sandy, both of whom are at Worthington on 36^th Street in Parkersburg.

While China brings on a new coal fired power plant each week the green weenies want all the gas fired and coal fired power plants in America shut down to “save the planet” The facility at Willow Island in Pleasants County is now “on idle” as a local up there noted.  It is “not shut down” while the present owner “looks for a buyer”.  One needs to make sure that the home generator works and that the natural gas system is up and working.  Gravity flow water systems don’t need electric and wood stoves & Rumford fire places work well when there is no electric.

Hope Gas, part of the John D. Rockefeller empire, announced that the firm has purchased 900 miles of pipeline from Equitrans [EQT].  Mother Hope CEO Morgan O’Brien noted that many of their existing supply wells “were at the end  of their productive lives” and that now they had access to more wells.  He also noted that the pipelines were old and needed to be replaced and such would provide employment for 400 men for a few years.  The company also purchased Peoples Natural Gas & Southern Public Service Company.  He hoped that the improvements would bring more natural gas customers and cause the drilling of more gas wells to supply the need.

Meanwhile the ruling junta in Washington is sending taxpayer funds to groups that work to stop drilling and the use of natural gas, oil & coal as raw materials and as the fuel that runs the nation.  This is in addition to sending $billions to China & Russia.

It was reported that Ireland plans to kill 200,000 cattle to “save the planet” but no concerns about what folks there are to eat.  Humans can’t eat grass but ruminants can take grass, corn stalks and hay and convert it into meat, milk, butter, cheese, whey, hides, etc.  This isn’t a first.  Back during Roosevelt’s “New Deal” farmers were told to kill all the little pigs and then farmers would have more money as pork prices would go up.  Many believed the snake oil salesmen and as a consequence they had no meat to eat come winter.   They also had no hogs to sell to generate cash. The federal government is still going after farmers as polluters.  One is reminded of what Al Gore Jr. said when he was VP.  “To end pollution we [America] should get all our food from third world countries.”  Al Gore Jr. has a college degree in toke rolling thus he should be an expert. What happens when there are supply chain problems?  If we don’t make things how are we to have the cash to buy from others?  Is the food safe to eat?

Gov. Justice who now wants to play in the lower DC swamps continues to have problems with back bills.  His land has been selling at tax sales and now he is years in arrears paying UMWA health care costs.  There are others who are running to retire Broadway Joe who sold W. Va. out for some undisclosed sum to some family member[s].

Broadway Joe & Mrs. Granholm the US Energy Secretary were in Weirton to announce the big battery factory that is funded by “all the right people”.  It was announced there that W.Va. would be getting a $1 billion hydrogen hub and Northeast Natural Energy is drilling a test CO2 injection well near Morgantown likely related to the scheme.  Methane is used to make hydrogen so folks can say they are protecting the environment. $1 billion will certainly be nice for the connected.

The Henry Hub [Louisiana] price of natural gas is $2.17 while gas produced on Owl Hill sold for less that a dollar.  Local Pennsylvania grade crude fetched $70.74/bbl. with condensate, formerly called Appalachian Light Sweet was $54.74/bbl.  Marcellus & Utica light brought $61/74 & medium $70.74bbl.