On Tuesday, the City of Annapolis, Maryland announced it filed a public nuisance climate change lawsuit against major energy producers and one trade association, with city officials acknowledging they began pursuing the case after being approached by a well-known “Keep It In The Ground” activist group funded by the Rockefellers. In fact, this activist group
Read More...Bob NolanWayne County, Pennsylvania, Landowner …. Our friend Bob Nolan uses Dickens and Blazing Saddles to illustrate what a bunch of phonies the DRBC amounts to when it comes to us. Ironic how relevant Charles Dickens’ novel “Martin Chuzzlewit” remains in today’s world.“Seth Pecksniff, a character with a holier-than-thou attitude in Charles Dickens’s 1844 novel
Read More...A lot of Americans prefer gas appliances, and for good reason: Natural gas is reliable, affordable, and for those that love to cook, it outperforms when creating their favorite dishes. Yet, a recent Mother Jones article attempts to make the case that somehow “the fossil fuel industry convinced Americans to love gas.” The article misrepresents
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. The Texas blackout is a matter of deception as well as reality, as Mark Mathis illustrates with a fresh take video explanation! That Texas blackout was the entirely predictable result of a bunch of policies, subsidies and incredible governmental distortions of the energy market. Our friend, Mark Mathis,
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Illinois landowners have gotten some attention with their Petition to the Supreme Court for Certiorari and the DRBC should be worried. The DRBC has spent a decade frustrating the efforts of landowners in the basin to develop their natural gas resources. It has done so with an illegal
Read More...Global olefins and polyester markets may feel for weeks the consequences of a storm that brought freezing temperatures for several days to areas not used to extended harsh winter weather conditions including Texan natural gas production areas and petrochemical hubs in the Gulf Coast. × The winter weather paralyzed a significant part of the U.S.
Read More...Nearly three and a half years: That’s how long the Delaware River Basin Commission has been sitting on regulations it opened for public comment that could decide the fate of oil and natural gas development within the region. It appears this week the commission will finally (maybe) answer the question: Can shale development occur in
Read More...NEW DELHI—The share of Canada and the U.S. in India’s January oil imports surged to a record 11% while that of the Middle East and South America declined, data obtained from sources showed. Asia’s third-largest economy imported about 4.8 million barrels per day (bbl/d) oil in January, a decline of 6% from the previous month
Read More...Production of resin and related materials was down last week because of the major winter storm in Texas, causing further tightness in supplies, and Flint Hills Resources is working with Encina Development Group to make renewable chemicals and fuels from plastic waste. This post appeared first on Plastics News.
Read More...Energy In Depth spokesman Will Allison was on the radio Thursday morning with Weld County, Colorado-based KFKA host Gail Fallen to discuss the Biden Administration’s decision to ban new leasing permits for oil and natural gas development on federal lands. Colorado is the fourth-highest producing state of oil and natural gas production on federal lands
Read More...EDF Renewables, a subsidiary of the EDF Group, EIH S.à r.l, a subsidiary of Enbridge Inc., a North American energy infrastructure company, and wpd, a European renewable energies company, have launched the construction activity on the Calvados offshore wind farm (Courseulles-sur-Mer) on Feb. 22. This announcement follows the finalization of financing agreements between the consortium and its financial
Read More...China’s CNOOC Ltd., the listed branch of China National Offshore Oil Corp., said on Feb. 22 it had made a large-sized oil and gas discovery at Bozhong 13-2 in the Bohai Bay off north China. Located in the southwestern ring of Bozhong Sag, the discovery well was tested to produce an average of about 1,980 barrels of
Read More...Israel and Egypt have agreed to build a pipeline to connect Israel’s offshore Leviathan natural gas field to LNG terminals in northern Egypt, the Israeli minister said on Feb. 21. The Palestinians also said they had signed an agreement with Egypt’s energy minister, who visited Israel and the occupied West Bank, on developing a gas field off the coast of Gaza. Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz hosted a meeting with Egypt’s Tarek El Molla as both countries look
Read More...This week’s issue has our updated ranking of North American thermoformers, for the 2020 fiscal year. We were able to gather data for 217 companies totaling $13.6 billion in related sales. Broken down by the two major thermoforming categories, 85 percent, or $11.6 billion, was generated from packaging. The remaining $2 billion, or 15 percent,
Read More...Plans for seismic surveys to help find oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) have fizzled due to a lack of protection for polar bears, according to a brief statement Feb. 20 from the Department of the Interior. The Kaktovik Inupiat Corp. (KIC), the Native-owned company that applied for permission to conduct the survey,
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