Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley looks at the subject of industrial wind projects and their impacts on human health, using a Victoria, Australia example] MasterResource has followed the growing issue of negative health effects of industrial wind turbines.
Read More...George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. [Editor’s Note: Cabot Oil and Gas is reducing GHG emissions intensity by an astounding 58% in 2020 compared to 2019 — a huge achievement that says so much!] When you’re a natural gas operator, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG emissions) are top of mind. Identifying areas of
Read More...The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in an appeal by Penn East Pipeline Company LLC, on Wednesday, vying to seize land owned by New Jersey to build a $1 billion natural gas pipeline, according to Reuters. Opposing the joint venture backed by a group of energy companies, the state argues its rights would be trampled.
Read More...The Green New Deal for Public Housing recently introduced in the Senate completely shut residential natural gas use out of consideration in new public housing standards. The plan would upgrade building efficiency and reduce overall energy costs but erases any savings from efficiency by forcing all-electric appliances into new buildings and retrofitted homes. Cost to
Read More...Just a few weeks after moderate Democrats in the California state legislature stopped legislation that would have phased in a fracking ban, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced his own plan to ban not only fracking, but eventually all oil and natural gas development in the state. This sort of aggressive opposition to safe domestic development
Read More...A report by researchers at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy presents a well-rounded view on the role that natural gas infrastructure will play in reaching net-zero targets and bridging emerging energy technologies. Researchers had the Leaders Summit on Climate – during which countries, led by the United States, committed to more ambitious emission
Read More...Gordon TombSenior Advisor, CO2 Coalition .. …. [Editor’s Note: Nothing rises above freedom in importance to human life, but climate cultists would steal it in the name of human life, based on nothing more than their ideology.] When my buddy Bill and I were 16 we’d jump into his 1954 Mercury for a day away from
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Drilling, hydraulic fracturing and geoscience are very complicated science, arguably much more so than Elon Musk’s rocket science! Elon Musk’s space adventures get all the media attention but one only need to think about a bit to realize modern oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing represent a
Read More...The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will discuss electrification and the future U.S. energy grid during a technical conference that should highlight the major role natural gas plays in lowering emissions from the power sector, serving as the top fuel source for U.S. electricity generation and providing reliable, affordable energy. Yet representatives from the natural gas
Read More...On Tuesday, Anne Arundel County, Maryland became the latest municipality to file a public nuisance climate change lawsuit against energy companies and a trade association representing the industry. While the county’s decision to file a lawsuit in unsurprising – as Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman announced back in February that the county was “considering”
Read More...American Energy Partners Inc. recently announced its plans to acquire three small oil and natural gas producers in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, according to Natural Gas Intelligence. The deal is valued at nearly $11 million. American Energy Partners Inc. said it would acquire all of the stock and units of the three undisclosed companies.
Read More...Activists aiming to shutter American energy production are returning to an old campaign: trying to block oil and natural gas exports. A group calling itself Defend the Gulf is reigniting the debate over energy exports with a list of demands to the Biden administration, including a permitting and construction moratorium on energy export infrastructure and
Read More...The nationally coordinated climate litigation campaign against energy companies is plagued by flaws and failures (and has been for years), according to a group of legal experts who discussed the lawsuits during a recent panel discussion. Hosted by George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School’s Law & Economics Center, the event focused on the United
Read More...President Joe Biden recently announced a goal of reducing greenhouse gas pollution by 50% by 2030, while creating millions of “good-paying, union jobs,” according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. While environmentalists were encouraged by the president’s announcement on Earth Day, the natural gas industry is concerned about what this pledge means for its future. Biden’s recent
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about the Trolley Trail, carbon, wet sand and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport area
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