May 9, 2016

$15 billion in New Natural Gas Infrastructure Under Review

An article published in the Wheeling News-Register over the weekend highlighted a number of interstate natural gas pipeline projects proposed for our region currently under review by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Surging natural gas production in the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions has put increasing constraints on existing infrastructure, leaving many key markets […]

May 4, 2016

Why Building More Natural Gas Pipelines is Critical for U.S. Manufacturers

Columbus Business First–U.S. manufacturers benefit from America’s abundance of natural gas, which they use as a direct fuel and as a raw material in industries such as chemicals. But new natural gas pipelines need to be built in order to get this energy resource to more users, they argue. That’s become a challenge in some areas, […]

May 4, 2016

Natural Gas Infrastructure Adds Jobs, Economic Growth

  A new study, “Energizing Manufacturing: Natural Gas and Economic Growth,” released by the National Association of Manufactures (NAM) Center for Manufacturing Research and IHS Economics reveals how domestic natural gas has strengthened the U.S. manufacturing sector and encouraged robust economic growth. Surging domestic production of this affordable, clean-burning resource has transformed the U.S. economy, […]

April 15, 2016

Natural Gas Will Support Over 13,000 New Ohio Jobs A Year Through 2035

Development of new energy infrastructure will contribute upwards of $861 billion to the U.S. and Canadian economies and create an estimated 323,000 to 425,000 jobs per year through 2035 according to a new report released by the INGAA Foundation. The study, North American Midstream Infrastructure through 2035: Leaning into the Headwinds, aims to capture and […]

April 4, 2016

Heartland Daily Podcast – Charles Steele: How Increased Natural Gas Benefits the Environment and Economy

Heartland Institute — In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Charles Steele, the Herman and Suzanne Dettwiler Chair in Economics at Hillsdale College in Michigan, joins Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News H. Sterling Burnett. Steele joins Burnett to talk about research he conducted showing the benefits of increased natural gas supplies to the […]

March 14, 2016

EIA: Natural Gas to Generate More Power than Coal in 2016

  Natural gas will overtake coal to become the leading source of electricity generation in the United States this year according to new projections released by the federal government. The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest short-term outlook projects gas to account for 33 percent of electricity produced this year, compared with 32 percent for […]

February 17, 2016

Ag Sector, Industry Embrace Affordable Natural Gas

What do baseballs and fertilizer have in common? They are the result of affordable natural gas. Natural gas has long been a key input for many products and functions, but today we are seeing the rapid expansion of this clean-burning resource thanks to unprecedented domestic production. From baseballs and crayons to key agricultural inputs we are […]