Tbe Creston auction was cancelled because the auctioneer, Will Smith, had a family emergency.
The Creston Area Neighborhood Watch had a successful flea market/yard sale complete with live music.
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The katydids are now “singing”. That used to mean that it was six weeks until frost.
The naked ladies are beginning to show up again around Creston.
Some local folks motored over to Clay County to ride the train there. Later in the season they plan to go to Cass.
The new president of WVU is the grandson of Ezra Taft Benson. Older folks may remember he was the Sec. Of Agriculture under President Eisenhower. The university now had a new board of governors and they were told to get rid of DEI and reduce the bloated administration of the Land Grant facility. Birmingham Alabama banker Rusty Hutson, Jr. is the headman of that group. His company name is all over the football field.
Don Hursell was spending time at his place on Beaver Dam.
Watson Shephard was attending to business in Creston.
On Tuesday the state road herbicide spray truck was in Creston. It would seem that the state wants to make sure that local folks also get their mandatory exposure to the herbicides “Core Maintenance” requires or so they say. The little engineer whose office is in the old Parkersburg Rig & Reel office apparently has a very thin skin and does not appreciate hearing about the foibles of the highway men. In past times administrators were told that if they ignored hazards they could become personally responsible for injuries, deaths and such. Now when a county supervisor is ordered not to fix a problem, likely he would be spared but those who told him, perhaps not so much. It has now become obvious that a lot of herbicide was sprayed in Calhoun County. As they say, “We need to take care of our vendors.” It is notable that there has been no spraying along the interstates.
Michael Allen Maze, age 71, of Elizabeth passed away.
There was a death in Calhoun County but there has been no official report.
Folks who were up in Amish country report that the Ohio corn & soya bean crops look to be excellent.
Ed Shaw was visiting the home folks.
There was a big lithium meeting July 31 in Susquehanna County Pennsylvania. Two facilities there are extracting the valuable mineral from Marcellus brines produced by Coterra (the successor to Cabot Oil & Gas). The two facilities are in Springville & Montrose . The companies state that there is a 95% recovery of Lithium from the brine and that the product is 97% pure. In W. Va. The brine is injected as a waste product. Also there is talk (there) about recovering rare earth minerals from coal & coal waste. Is anyone awake down at the Mouth of the Elk? Seems the big thing now under the golden dome is getting rid of state senators that “do not kiss the ring” of those who answer to, perhaps, folks who live in other parts of the nation.
It has been made clear that the AI centers and data centers in general will be powered by natural gas as wind & solar are not reliable and without the tax goodies, now mostly gone, far too expensive. Some have claimed that the centers are bad things to have in the neighborhood as they are very noisy. A man who is around them as his job notes that even when the diesel back up generators are doing their tests one does not have to wear ear plugs which means that it is less than 90 decibels. The main noise is the fans blowing water on the cooling fins that are inside with the buildings outside. A facility costs $750 million and routinely there are five in a group.
Cash, the adorable mascot down at Shade Tree, got into a confrontation with a bumble bee. Things did not go well and Cash got stung. A very painful education about avoiding conflict with bees.
Antero said that they were not about to pay royalties based on arm’s length transactions for the sale of the oil, gas and NGLs produced from their wells. They would use hypothetical values for well head prices based on BTU and not pay for liquids. Seems folks have little choice but go to the Oil & Gas commission and be forced.
EQT sent out a check for May gas from some of their Marcellus wells with the following prices, ethane @ 17 cents, NGL C3+ @ 77 cents [this would include propane, n-butane & isobutane, the pentanes, hexanes, etc.] oil @ $48.90 [this likely is Marcellus light] and Residue gas @ $2.67 [this would be pure methane that would go into interstate pipelines]. The very low price for ethane reflects that no additional ethane cracker has been built and the ethane has to go either to the Gulf of America or to foreign lands. The statement showed that for 655 bbl. Of oil there was a treatment fee of $2.043.01 and a gathering fee of $567.03.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude is$66.33/bbl. With condensate fetching $48.33 & Marcellus & Utica light bringing $55.33/bbl. Natural gas [elsewhere] was $3.11/MMBTU.
