Export of shale gas angers Western Pennsylvania landowners

Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | June 13, 2011 | Timothy Puko

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Natural gas pipeline companies have been Dorothy Ganiear's neighbor in Greene County for as long as she can remember.

Pipelines from two companies poke out from the ground in twisting interchanges just over a grassy hillside from her family's 100-acre farm, but noise or accidents never have been a problem, Ganiear said.

So when Virginia-based Dominion Resources Inc. offered her money this year to allow the company to run another pipeline under a corner of her Morgan Township property, Ganiear, 61, was happy to help. This is what we all have to live with in order to get the natural gas we need to heat our homes, she said.

What she does not want to live with is a pipeline that would help take gas to a port for export overseas.

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I tend to agree with you. The only thing I'd say is that I would like to see US demand for gas via generation, transportation, manufacturing and as a chemical feedstock drive increases in drilling vs exports driving the increases.

I suppose that eventually we will reach some world market price for natural gas like we have for oil, but I sure would love to see our relatively low natural gas prices lead a resurgence in US industry -- especially in the rust belt where this shale gas exists, before that happens.

All things considered, I'd rather be exporting value-added manufactured products rather than raw resources such as natural gas. Low energy prices would sure go a long way to make that happen.

[thackney]

Some of that is already going on.

Dow sees shale gas ‘renaissance’ for US chemicals sector
http://www.icis.com/Articles/2011/06/08/9467658/dow-sees-shale-gas-renaissance-for-us-chemicals-sector.html

Prospects for North American petrochemical producers improve
http://www.icis.com/Articles/2011/03/21/9444238/prospects-for-north-american-petrochemical-producers.html

[CornBred]

Gas ovens take a little bit longer to bake.

I never burned a cake before in my life until I baked one in an electric oven. The time in the recipe MEANS the time in the recipe.

Boy did the people in this house tease me.

I find electric baking tastes different from gas. It could be I was used to gas but the taste was not the same.

[Politicalmom]

I find things burn more in the gas oven. My mom makes WONDERFUL roasted vegetables in her electric oven. When I make them exactly the same, they just don’t have the same sweetness, and they often burn before they are soft.

[CornBred]

She’s right. My roasted potatoes and squash are so good. And it’s also true I couldn’t get that in my gas oven. I either over baked or under baked.

In a gas oven, there is a big learning curve. But once you get it, you never have trouble again.

There is no learning curve on electric. Even on the stove top. Matter of fact, I scorched a roast yesterday. And I was right there watching it. That heat stays hot long and it can burn in a split second.

I am still learning I guess. :)

[Politicalmom]

My Mom’s lucky. She has wall ovens, so she can have electric ovens and gas stove.

I can only dream...

Heehehee

[bricks4all@aol.com]

Shale deposits litter the world and will be exploited, the odds of developing export markets beyond Puerto Rico and Florida are low.

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All good stuff, but we need time for those plants to be financed, built and staffed. Once the infrastructure is in place, gas prices will find a level.

But if prices raise too soon based on high export prices, that infrastructure will never be financed or built.

We need the value-added jobs far more than the commodity export revenue.

Wishful thinking perhaps, but I would love to see every BTU of that gas burned right here to revive industry rather than seeing it exported to fuel other nation's growth.

[CornBred]

STOP !!!

I always wanted a wall oven.

[Politicalmom]

Ummm...she has TWO wall ovens.

Sorry. LOL

[CornBred]

I just fainted. LOL, my dream kitchen has two wall ovens.

I dream BIG.