Rev. Kevin Gillispie filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church. He had been concerned about Garfield Road and elsewhere being blocked by high water and rock slides. More rocks & dirt came down at the “red cut” near the Munday road but nothing was blocked.
A flock of robins has taken up residence at the Creston Space Dock. Easter flowers are now up although Easter is “late” this year.
Some Creston folks attended the fire department’s baked steak meal in Elizabeth.
Kevin “Weasel” Wease is now home after being in the hospital since just after Christmas.
Steve Loudin was visiting with his ophthalmologist. Other local residents were likewise consulting with medical experts. Carl Marks was found to be two pints low on blood so he had to get some more. Some of his younger family were suffering with the consequences of virus infections. The Little Kanawha Christian School was closed because so many of the faculty and pupils were on the sick list.
Little Curtis Marks is home after a stay at a Charleston hospital and his brother Thomas is also on the mend. Grandma “Sis” came to spend time with Thomas while his little brother was “vacationing” down at the Mouth of the Elk.
On Tuesday there was supposed to be a big snow, an inch/hour or inches/hour followed by rain that would make for icy highways & byways. Schools were preemptively closed in preparation for the big day. It finally did snow and one can say that the highway department was out and about. By the end of the day there might have been an inch. For a time Nicut hill (on W. Va. 5 on the way to Grantsville) was slippery. Sunday afternoon there is snow in Creston so time will tell.
W. Va. AG J. B. McCuskey led a coalition of 22 states to sue New York over the state’s $78 billion Climate Super Fund Bill which was pushed by the green weenies to fight against coal, oil & gas. But, as they say, “There’s a new sheriff in town and now energy is a good thing”. W. Va. Is smack dab in the middle of the largest oil & gas field on the planet and discussion continues about new power plants to give power to AI & Data Centers that use large amounts of energy.
The other day there was a major power outage in Wirt County that did not impact Creston. Commerce in Elizabeth came to a halt until later in the day when electric service was restored.
J. P. Marks was having technical difficulties with his chariot.
An outfit called Avonlea Lithium Corp. Is to open a new plant in April in Springville Pennsylvania to remove Lithium from Marcellus brine. In W. Va. The brine is injected in injection wells — anyone awake down at the Mouth of the Elk?
It was reported that now the EPA has changed the rule over the CO2 & methane [CH4] nonsense that the former ruling junta had imposed. It is said also that there is a fight over allocated $$$ for methane leaks that has not yet been spent. Watching the news, especially when DOGE is discussed, makes for fun watching and then watching Maxine, the California banker & congress critter.
The head of Expand, the company as a result of the “merger” of Chesapeake & SWN (Southwestern), Mohit Singh said that the future in natural gas is LNG [liquified natural gas] for export with such being 75% of the increased demand.
The W. Va. Legislature is now in session and it is clear that there will be a fight over the budget as, it seems, lines have been drawn. Local folks need to go down and visit with their delegates & senators. One can park out at the football stadium and ride the shuttle bus and get off at the Cultural Center stop to enter the building with the golden dome. One could suggest the Weights & Measures check the meters on the Marcellus & Utica wells to see if they are accurate since such are used to determine severance and ad valorem taxes and royalties. Many new oil & gas leases say that royalties will be paid based on the well head price when now such is a fiction as gas from wells that have gas liquids go through the fractionation plants and the gas is sold there and the individual products are separately sold or as y grade ngls. January had a $28.5 million drop in severance taxes. There had been a move to block any facilities in W. Va. That would use & refine the hydrocarbons produced in the state to keep W. Va. As an “energy colony” for wealthy folks elsewhere. The Shale Crescent folks have shown how 100,000 factory jobs could be created between Pittsburgh & Huntington if our produced resources were used locally. Perhaps now there are those down at the Mouth of the Elk that would work for West Virginia.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude oil slipped to $69.74/bbl. With condensate fetching just $51.74/bbl. While Marcellus & Utica light was $58.74/bbl. Henry Hub Louisiana natural gas was $3.80/mmbtu.
