Marcellus Formation

He started it, though.

But anyway, getting back to this, they canceled pipelines for the Marcellus Shale there in western New York and in Pennsylvania is one of the most viable and largest deposits of natural gas in the world, let alone just the United States.

And I'm reading one of the reasons why the electricity rates were so high in Massachusetts and New York and, of course, other parts of New England was they were actually having to buy gas well above the regular price per British thermal unit from Canada.

And Canada was just, you know, hey, you need the gas? We're going to triple the price.

Now, fortunately, we had leaders in states that, like in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, that looked at the data and understood that this was a risk worth taking, and the industry was serious about mitigating these impacts.

And because of that, we've created and discovered one of the largest natural gas fields in the world where we operate in the Marcellus Shale.

Some states, and in those states, they've got a lot of jobs.

We pay billions in royalties, enriching the communities, and we've got relatively affordable energy bills.

Anyway, folks, I said I was going to give you this update on a pipeline.

The Trump administration over the weekend is putting up $42 million in federal funding behind efforts to revive a long-stalled natural gas pipeline connecting Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale pipeline.

shale field with energy markets in New York and in the Northeast.

The Department of Energy announced Monday that the funding provided under Title III of the Defense Production Act will support permitting and reconstruction work on the proposed constitutional pipeline as the administration seeks to expand energy infrastructure and lower regional energy costs.

Decades later, another energy boom arrived, natural gas.

The Marcellus Shale brought drilling companies, pipelines, jobs, lease payments, and billions of dollars of economic activity into Pennsylvania.

It also brought arguments over water, roads, pollution, property rights, and whether the communities providing the resource were receiving enough of the benefit.

And now another enormously wealthy industry has arrived in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

By the middle of the 20th century, northeastern Pennsylvania was confronting the consequences of an economy built heavily around just one resource.

Then came another resource boom.

In the 2000s, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing made enormous quantities of natural gas trapped in the Marcellus Shale commercially accessible.

Pennsylvania became one of America's major natural gas producers.

Yeah

... also comes out of the Marcellus Shale.

Yes.

There's propane there, so-