Sunday, November 3, 2013

Catching up on the news

I don't have much firsthand knowledge about the Mike Fink riverboat on the Covington KY riverfront, but apparently there are questions about its future.

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Jeffersonville, Clarksville and New Albany IN are getting a path along the Ohio River to connect those communities. A $50,000 grant from the Duke Foundation will help complete design work.

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The Coast Guard is thinking about allowing gas drillers who use hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to ship their wastewater to disposal sites by barge, which has some people unhappy.

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Up in Columbiana County, Ohio, the local port authority has signed an agreement with Arrowhead Utica Pipeline LLC to connect the Marathon Ohio River terminal to another pipeline. Marathon has already announced it will ship crude oil from the Utica shale of eastern Ohio by barge to its refinery at Catlettsburg, Ky.

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And from a a few days ago, in an announcement that surprised no one, Consol Energy announced it would sell five coal mines plus its river transportation division to Murray Energy Corp.

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I'll post some photos from last week soon.