After a ‘couple’ of dry days rain returned to the Creston area. The Wirt County Fair is coming up next week & traditionally, rain during the fair is “the thing”.
Jerry Wayne “Peck” Jones, age 76, passed away. He formerly spent time in the Creston area.
George McClellen Weekley, age 77, passed away. He worked for Stella Jones, formerly Burke Parsons Bowlby. The son of Paul Weekley he was in the Benniah dePue family.
Cap’n & Mrs. Spock were attending to business at the West Virginia Judicial Tower in Kanawha City.
The state road was spraying herbicide along Wirt County roads. As an administrator that worked for the state road said, “We have to take care of our vendors.” Along W. Va. 5 in Gilmer County it resembles “brown field” sites after one passes the copper smelter on the way to the hazardous biological waste incinerator.
Folks who had to go to Morgantown discovered that I-79 has lots of potholes [imperfections in the surface of the roadway] as does US 19.
Local folks attended the W. Va. State Republican meeting in Morgantown where Josh Holstein, age 23, was elected new state party chairman. Riley Moore talked about the doings in Washington and Gov. Morrisey talked about plans in West Virginia. Several have noted that W. Va. May be asleep at the switch while Pennsylvania has the lead on the data centers and power plants to run them. The recent meeting in Pittsburgh with the president and their US Senator laid out $92 billion in building data centers, power plants & related infrastructure. The governor said his team was working on getting data centers in West Virginia. A local site was sent in quite some time back but no response.
Range Resources, a firm that formerly had wells in West Virginia and started the Marcellus drilling noted that the firm now plans to sell natural gas to power plants.
EQT announced that the firm plans to increase the throughput in the MVP (Mountain Valley Pipeline) from 2 bcf/day to 2.5 billion cubic feet/day. EQT also noted that the firm would be the sole supplier of natural gas to the proposed natural gas power plant in Doddridge County.
Mizubo Securities did a study & reported that 290,000 wells have been drilled in the Marcellus & that is one half of the field included in their study and that an acre of Marcellus is worth $20,000.00.
Those who have occasion to motor up I-77 in central Ohio are familiar with the Guernsey Power Station near where the dirigible crashed several years ago. The state of the art facility runs on Utica natural gas. It and a power plant in Pennsylvania recently was purchased by Talen Energy for $3.5 billion. It had been owned, in part, by Blackrock. The prior national administration had been working to shut down all the coal & natural gas power plants but, as they say, there’s a new sheriff in town. Carbon dioxide makes green plants grow and isn’t a toxic waste product.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude is $64.16/bbl. With condensate, a/k/a super mountain high test, fetching $46.16/bbl. And Marcellus & Utica light was $53.16/bbl. Natural gas elsewhere was $3.11 but less that $2 on the local scene. Aren’t we supposed to help out the wealthy elsewhere so we stay poor?
