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		<title>EIA Oct. STEO: Hot Summer Ate the Storage Cushion; Gas Still Cheap</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/eia-oct-steo-hot-summer-ate-the-storage-cushion-gas-still-cheap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its October Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) yesterday, along with its annual Winter Fuels Outlook. The headline for most of us: if you heat your home with natural gas, your bill should go down this winter — by 14% here in the Northeast. If you heat with oil, brace...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Antis Cheer as Allegheny Co. Moves to Pull Shale Air Exemptions</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/antis-cheer-as-allegheny-co-moves-to-pull-shale-air-exemptions/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Allegheny County Board of Health has fired the first shot in what looks like a slow-motion campaign to squeeze shale drilling out of the county. At its September meeting, the board voted unanimously to have the county health department look into whether Article 21, the county&#8217;s air pollution rulebook, should be rewritten to remove...]]></description>
		
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		<title>HydroEdge Buys Control of RES Water, Forms Big M-U Frack Water Firm</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/hydroedge-buys-control-of-res-water-forms-big-m-u-frack-water-firm/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[HydroEdge Solutions]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Marcellus/Utica water business just got a bit more consolidated. HydroEdge Solutions, a Canonsburg (Washington County, PA) company that moves frack water from point A to point B, has acquired a majority interest in Bridgeville (Allegheny County) based RES Water. The combined outfit will have about 350 employees, five water treatment, recycling, and storage facilities...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Democratic Pollster: Most NY Voters Back Constitution Pipeline</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/democratic-pollster-most-ny-voters-back-constitution-pipeline/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one you don&#8217;t see every day. A Democratic polling firm, one that boasts of helping elect Democrats all the way up to the White House, says a majority of New York voters want the Constitution Pipeline built. And it isn&#8217;t close on natural gas itself: roughly three out of four New Yorkers support using...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fit Energy Plans 15 Data Centers on Luzerne Co. Mine Land</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/fit-energy-plans-15-data-centers-on-luzerne-co-mine-land/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Monday night, hundreds of residents packed a Newport Township, Luzerne County, commissioners&#8217; meeting to oppose a giant AI data center campus planned for old mine land in the Lee section of the township. The Times Leader reports the plan calls for 15 data centers and three natural gas power generation facilities on nearly 1,400...]]></description>
		
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		<title>US Gas Production Hits Record in July – But Not Thanks to Appalachia</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/us-gas-production-hits-record-in-july-but-not-thanks-to-appalachia/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) says U.S. natural gas production hit a new all-time high in July 2026: 137 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of &#8220;gross withdrawals.&#8221; That&#8217;s great news for the country. But when MDN dug into the state-by-state numbers behind the headline, we found the Marcellus/Utica didn&#8217;t help set the record....]]></description>
		
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		<title>MVP Delivers $27.1M Property Tax Windfall to 11 WV Counties</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/mvp-delivers-27-1m-property-tax-windfall-to-11-wv-counties/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Remember all those years of protesters chaining themselves to equipment, lawsuits by the dozen, and court-ordered work stoppages trying to kill the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP)? Here&#8217;s what West Virginians got for finally building it: a fat new check. A new report from West Virginia State Treasurer Larry Pack&#8217;s office finds that MVP drove a...]]></description>
		
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		<title>MDN&#8217;s Energy Stories of Interest: Wed, Oct 7, 2026</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/mdns-energy-stories-of-interest-wed-oct-7-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: U.S. energy secretary tours Buckeye Partners’ terminal, upgraded pipeline in Coraopolis; NATIONAL: U.S. natural gas futures extend gains to three sessions; Jones Act waiver period disproves China fearmongering, shows benefits of reform; LS Power closes $6 billion Fund VI; Democratic Socialists want a Green New Deal … and more; U.S. LNG feedgas demand...]]></description>
		
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		<title>M-U Spot Prices Near $1 Push Drillers to Curtail Production</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/m-u-spot-prices-near-1-push-drillers-to-curtail-production/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The pipeline got fixed. The price didn&#8217;t. In midday trading on Monday, Eastern Gas South (the M-U pricing point formerly known as Dominion South) sold for $1.005 per MMBtu, while Henry Hub in Louisiana sat at $2.960. That&#8217;s a $1.955 haircut. Gas sold in our backyard fetched about one-third of the national benchmark price. And...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Supreme Court Weighs Boulder Climate Suit; Shale&#8217;s Future at Stake</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/supreme-court-weighs-boulder-climate-suit-shales-future-at-stake/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the first Monday in October, which means the U.S. Supreme Court opened a new term. The very first case the justices heard may be the most important case for the oil and gas industry, including Marcellus/Utica drillers, in a generation. The case is Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. It asks...]]></description>
		
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		<title>FERC Slams Brakes on PJM&#8217;s &#8216;Deeply Flawed&#8217; Data Center Power Auction</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/ferc-slams-brakes-on-pjms-deeply-flawed-data-center-power-auction/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, that didn&#8217;t go as planned. PJM Interconnection, the outfit that runs the electric grid in all or part of 13 states (including Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia) plus D.C., was all set to open a one-time &#8220;emergency&#8221; auction on Sept. 30 to buy 6,831 megawatts (MW) of brand-new power supply, mostly to feed data...]]></description>
		
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		<title>MVP Boost Update: FERC Decision Near, State Permit Frozen</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/mvp-boost-update-ferc-decision-near-state-permit-frozen/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Companies]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mountain Valley Pipeline&#8217;s (MVP) plan to push more natural gas through its existing pipe, a project called MVP Boost, is closing in on a federal decision. FERC staff have already given the project a clean bill of environmental health. But back in Virginia, Boost is stuck in neutral, all because one county can&#8217;t seem to...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alpha Compute Walks Back Oil Claims, Adds a Marcellus Test Well</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/alpha-compute-walks-back-oil-claims-adds-a-marcellus-test-well/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Sept. 22, Alpha Compute Corp. (Nasdaq: ALP) said it was buying an old Pennsylvania oil field (county not named) for $5.5 million and planned to put a second 200 MW data center on it (see Alpha Compute&#8217;s 2nd PA Data Center Site Comes with 75 Oil Wells). On Tuesday (Sept. 29), the company issued...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Next NEPA Data Center Land Rush? PPL JV Eyes 29% of Fell Twp.</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/next-nepa-data-center-land-rush-ppl-jv-eyes-29-of-fell-twp/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the past seven months, MDN has told you about landowners in Salem Township (Luzerne County) getting rich by selling their land for AI data centers, at prices reaching $250,000 to $300,000 per acre. Now the land rush appears to be spreading about 50 miles northeast, to the &#8220;Upvalley&#8221; area of Lackawanna County, above Scranton....]]></description>
		
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		<title>22 Months, ~500 Cargoes Later, Plaquemines LNG Says It&#8217;s &#8220;Ready&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://marcellusdrilling.com/2026/10/22-months-500-cargoes-later-plaquemines-lng-says-its-ready/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Willis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, well, well. Venture Global (VG) has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permission to place Phase 1 of its Plaquemines LNG export plant in Louisiana &#8220;in service.&#8221; In plain English, VG says the plant is finally ready to start shipping LNG to the customers who signed long-term contracts with it, beginning October...]]></description>
		
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