Here’s the hard truth Pennsylvania, we really have to have an honest conversation about crypto mining. Not the future-of-finance hype, but the down-and-dirty, ground-zero reality unfolding in our own back-yards. In particular, the puzzling and disappointing recent trend of pairing crypto mining with abandoned and soon-to-be-abandoned natural gas wells. It...
Will your community be the one to go under the knife next? Diversified Energy, a company dedicated to squeezing every last dollar of profit from aging gas wells, has left a site to rot in Elk County, PA. Yet this regulatory decision has left a confusing thicket of environmental and...
The rapid emergence and popularity of cryptocurrency has led to some novel, and admittedly controversial, energy solutions. One of those “win-win” solutions is to power crypto mining operations with natural gas that would otherwise be vented from oil and gas wells. Taken together, this approach creates significant new economic opportunities...
