A good crowd was on hand Sunday for the Creston Community Building Veterans Day event. State Sen. Mike Azinger gave a talk and several veterans were honored. He also presented the community building with a plaque “In God We Trust”. The Little Kanawha Christian School also had a luncheon to honor local veterans.
Local folks picked peppers in November (Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers . . .) and then Creston had snow. Wooly worms seem to be scarce but one had a very dark head followed with a long lighter section followed by a dark end. The warm sunshiny days brought out thousands of the Asiatic beetles that the Clintons imported “to control the aphids on the pecan trees.” In a just world Madame Hillary should be required to gather up the gallons of the insects and take them all to her New York mansion.
Doris Mollohan, age 68, of Martinsburg died unexpectantly. The daughter of Arnold [Pee Wee} and Bonnie Board Mollohan she will be laid to rest Friday in the Wright Cemetery.
The government mandated “fast” time came to an end. Perhaps it is now gone for good.
PEIA (W. Va. Public Employees group) announced that folks cannot go visit them in their offices because the digs were not plush enough and now there are upgrades, likely noting less that hand made Persian rugs, solid imported mahogany furniture, crystal decanters and such.
Apparently Engineer Evans didn’t get around to fixing the imperfections in the surface of the roadway on I-77 but “important” core maintenance issues are being addressed by contracting for heavy equipment to chew up shrubs and small trees along the interstates. Now, you know, we cannot have those red buds growing and making for scenic trips in the spring.
Some Wirt & Calhoun folks attended the W. Va. State Farm Bureau meeting at Canaan Valley State Park.
A settlement was reached in the Hope Gas rate increase. For most domestic customers there was a 21% rate increase instead of the proposed 41% rate hike and the PR man for Mother Hope said it was all fair and just and that the $20 million that the company gave to the university for the name on the stadium & the $1 million plus for the ice hockey facility and the big new gas line to provide fuel for the data centers had noting to do with the rate increases and mind your own business! It is not known locally the status of the proposed prohibitive increases for producers who have been selling gas into their gathering system. It seems sorta “off” that when the well head price was four times the present price they made money but now with very low field prices they need massive rate increases. At the hearing only Charlotte Lane showed up. Local folks may recall that when Cabot was pulling gas meters in Wirt & Calhoun so they could sell the gas at a higher price to Tenneco, Charlotte Lane dropped the hammer and helped the local residents. It is obvious that Mother Hope has a lot of new equipment and their men are now often seen in the Creston area. On Friday they were digging in the ditch near the top of the Leason hill along W. Va. 5.
Antero announced that after 10 years the firm is going back to drilling dry Marcellus wells to provide fuel for data centers. The Denver based firm had been drilling the “wet” Marcellus and then trying to avoid paying for the very valuable liquids. Also it is said that they plan to sell their Ohio Utica properties. They have 1000 dry locations presently held by production (HBP). This is why, when one leases, that only one formation is leased. That is why Texas is rich and West Virginia is poor. Our ancestors didn’t know better back in 1895 but Mr. Rockefeller did. Now his family is fighting fossil fuels.
With the decline cures on horizontal shale wells it is obvious that drilling will have to continue to provide for LNG export, fuel use and the demand for the AI centers. Recent leases that have been sent out are the equivalent of perhaps 7% royalties for West Virginia when world class properties should pay 25%.
Two Obama judges on the D. C. Federal Court circuit said that the Biden Junta ban on new gas furnaces must stand. What a world we live in!
Deep River Data announced that the firm will be drilling traditional gas wells in Lee County North Carolina to provide fuel to operate data centers there.
Ex W. Va. Senate president Baldy Blair has been hired as the lobbyist for the power companies who want to make the eastern W. Va. Counties utility corridors for power lines taking electric from Pennsylvania to data centers near Washington D. C.
The price for local Pennsylvania grade crude slipped to $58.75/bbl. With condensate bringing only $40.75/bbl. And Marcellus & Utica light $47.75/bbl. In comparison WTI [West Texas Intermediate] is $59.22 and Brent [North Sea crude] is $63.63/bbl. Natural gas elsewhere rose to $4.32/mmbtu.
