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PEIA And PA Public Utility Commission Agree, Pipeline Safety Is A Priority

August 17, 2015
John F. Coleman, Jr., vice-chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), wrote an opinion editorial in the Patriot-News, highlighting the importance of pipeline safety. Coleman notes that the safe construction and operation of Pennsylvania’s pipeline infrastructure is “an enormous… Read More ►

Uniontown Herald-Standard: Pipeline Projects Reviving Mon Valley’s Economy

August 13, 2015
Joseph Kirk, executive director of the Mon Valley Progress Council, published an opinion editorial in the Uniontown Herald-Standard, highlighting the benefits that pipeline infrastructure projects can bring to local economies. Kirk highlights the importance of pipeline projects like Mariner East… Read More ►

Energy Development Fuels Economic Growth

August 10, 2015
Over the weekend, Erica Clayton Wright of the Marcellus Shale Coalition published a letter to the editor in the Philadelphia Inquirer that highlighted the economic benefits of the Mariner East projects. The letter notes the positive economic impact the energy… Read More ►

Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry has caused a ripple effect of job creation

August 7, 2015
This week, the Times Leader published a profile on Tim Schoen, an analyst at Borton-Lawson, a Wilkes-Barre Township-based engineering and architecture firm. A Penn State University Broadcast Journalism graduate, Tim Schoen, switched career goals and acquired a position with Borton-Lawson.… Read More ►

PA Natural Gas Reserves are Leading America’s Energy Production

August 5, 2015
A new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Drilling Productivity Report, showed that since January 2012 natural gas production in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions has accounted for 85% of the increase of natural gas production… Read More ►

The Marcellus and Utica Shale Regions Are Leading American Natural Gas Production

July 30, 2015
The U.S. Energy Information Administration released a report, Drilling Productivity Report (DPR), which found that natural gas production in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions has accounted for 85 percent of the increased natural gas production in the U.S., since… Read More ►

LiUNA In the News

July 28, 2015
Last week, the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) was featured in two media articles in support of infrastructure projects across Pennsylvania. Abe Amoros, Pennsylvania Legislative Director for LiUNA, was interviewed by the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association and Dennis L.… Read More ►

Pennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance Tells Newly Formed Pipeline Infrastructure Taskforce: We Are a Resource For You

July 22, 2015
Today, the members of the Pennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance sent a letter to the state Department of Environmental Protection and the newly formed Pipeline Infrastructure Taskforce, which convened its first meeting to begin recommending policies, guidelines and best practices to… Read More ►