![]() Tom Wolf’s moratorium on new drilling under state forests urge the Delaware River Basin Commission to end its ban on fracking in the basin ask the governors of New York and New Jersey to allow pipeline construction so that more Pennsylvania gas can get to market and boost domestic consumption of natural gas by stopping Pennsylvania’s plan to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.īut all the initiatives are likely to miss their targets, and represent another Republican attempt to enact familiar measures at the behest of the natural gas industry, analysts said. In early March, GOP members introduced a raft of bills and resolutions designed to increase gas production and so lessen national dependence on imported energy at a time when Russia, a major energy exporter, has invaded neighboring Ukraine. ![]() Renewed attempts by Pennsylvania House Republicans to boost natural gas production by ending a ban on new drilling on public lands, among other measures, are unlikely to succeed because the industry already owns many unused leases on those lands, and because it lacks the pipeline capacity to take any new gas to market even if it was produced, analysts said. This 2017 file photo shows a Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site in Bradford County, Pa. Outside of work hours, Jon can be found running, birding, cooking, and, when weather permits, gardening in the back yard of a Philadelphia row home where he lives with his partner, Kate. He has written two travel guidebooks to the European Alps lived in Australia, Switzerland, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, and visited many countries including Ethiopia, Peru, Taiwan, and New Zealand. Since 2011, he has been a freelance writer, contributing Philadelphia-area news to The New York Times covering economics for Market News, and writing stories on the environment and other subjects for a number of local outlets including StateImpact. Jon trained as a general news reporter with a British newspaper chain and later worked for several business-news organizations including Bloomberg News and Market News International, covering topics including economics, bonds, currencies and monetary policy. ![]() As a former Reuters reporter, he spent several years covering the early stages of Pennsylvania’s natural gas fracking boom and was one of the first national reporters to write about the effects of gas development on rural communities. Jon is an experienced journalist who has covered a wide range of general and business-news stories for national and local media in the U.S. ![]()
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