There will be Bingo at the Creston Community Building on February 7 with the kitchen opening at noon. All are invited to come, visit and have a good time.
The Creston area currently has real winter weather with lows near or below zero, icy roads, frozen water pipes, no school or church services, e tc. The windbags like Albert Gore, Jr. and John Heintz-Kerry (Jon Carry) are maintaining low profiles at their beach front villas as they know the oceans are not going to rise from their now debunked “global warming”. Even BlackRock’s Larry Fink is now talking about using hydrocarbons, coal, oil & gas to supply reliable power. While the snow came last Saturday, Friday evening the road scraper & truck from Calhoun County came to deal with treacherous conditions on the Richardsonville Road.
In the northeast oil had to be used to provide power as the electric from hydropower from Canada was cut off as it was needed in that nation. Power rates there are very high because of “climate mandates”, money spent on windmills & solar panels and the closing of reliable coal plants. Then some of them had the audacity to blame President Trump for high electric bills. Across the line in the Old Dominion, Gov. Spamberger, a former CIA agent just raised electric bills $1100/year by forcing the power companies to pay the “carbon tax”. She had run as “a moderate” but she has now shown her true colors going after legal gun owners and raising all sorts of taxes for the ‘worker’s paradise’.
Some Creston folks attended the investiture ceremony for Arch A. Moore Capito as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of W. Va. at the Robert C. Byrd federal building down at the Mouth of the Elk. The court room was packed with judges, lawyers, sheriffs, police chiefs, local politicians, poohbahs and nabobs. Local folks had to take off their shoes and belts to enter the federal court house. This time there was a chair.
Spencer newspaperman David Hedges died after having major health problems. From the local prospective he was a member of the dePue family.
Several Wirt County residents motored to Parkersburg for the meeting at Greens [the old K-Mart on Division Street] where the Governor talked about a proposed 10% reduction in the state income tax. Joining him was Grover Norquist, a nationally famous tax expert.
The gendarmes were calling in Creston the other day.
Those who follow the news are now aware that there is what is called “a color revolution” happening in the country with trained, paid demonstrators funded by foreign nations and NGOs that get their $$ from the taxpayers. The cause had been “destroy Israel” but not it is ” keep the illegal aliens in the country”. Apparently 600 had been rounded up in W. Va. But now Judge Joe Bob Goodwin told law enforcement to turn two back out on the street.
The W. Va. Intermediate Court ruled that Arsenal’s proposed force pooling for Marcellus wells in Harrison County cannot proceed since the company did not “negotiate in good faith”. With world class oil & gas formations the royalty should be 25% with no deductions.
There has been lots of hype about the Fidelis facility in Mason County. First it was said that the firm would take coal and make all sorts of new products that would go on the train or barge to users. Now it seems that the facility is to be a gas fired power plant and AI data centers. For certain it seems no one “is interested” in the proposed similar facility on the Wirt/Calhoun line.
Because of the cold weather and treacherous roads some folks have had trouble feeding their animals let along providing water for them to drink.
Because of the bitter cold the spot price of natural gas rose to $7.46/MMBTU but local producers did not get to share in the bonanza. After all, don’t we know ‘our place’? The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude was $64.21/bbl. With condensate fetching $46.21/bbl. And Marcellus & Utica light bringing $53.21/bbl.
