The U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg will soon become home to the largest floating solar plant in the southeastern United States, Kallanish Energy reports. The military complex in North Carolina will be getting a 1.1-megawatt system under a contract awarded to Duke Energy. It was awarded a Utility Energy Service Contract for the project. The $36
Read More...... … … Ontario gave a Canadian version of the Green New Deal a decade to prove itself and it failed — spectacularly so — for the province citizenry. In February 2009, Ontario, Canada passed its Green Energy Act. The act entailed: increased integration of wind and solar energy into Ontario’s electricity grid, shutting down coal
Read More...Natural gas played a significant role in decreasing energy-related U.S. CO2 emissions by 2.8 percent from 2018 to 2019, according to a new Energy Information Administration analysis. In fact, the EIA acknowledged that affordable natural gas – a result of the shale revolution – has helped the United States to decrease its CO2 emissions for
Read More...In a moment of refreshing honesty – or perhaps a Freudian slip – a major player behind the climate litigation campaign admitted that the goal is not to win lawsuits. Instead, the campaign is part of a politically motivated effort to gain access to, and publicize, internal documents from energy companies in an attempt to
Read More...Rushing to 100 percent renewables without reliable backup sources can have dangerous consequences, according to U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette. In a recent Orange County Register op-ed, Brouillette took a closer look at California’s rolling blackouts and high electricity prices, asking: “Is this what our state leaders had in mind when they touted their
Read More...George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. A Cabot Oil & Gas career opportunity and the love of nature moved the Cordovas family to Susquehanna County. Alejandro Cordova got his early education in Mexico, and moved to Brooklyn, NY, where he started a family and found work in construction. The experience that he
Read More...India’s state-run oil company, Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL), will off-take 1 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Mozambique LNG project, Kallanish Energy learns. BPCL’s financial director Neelakantapillai Vijayagopal told the media after a conference call this week that the company has signed a 15-year supply contract with the African project.
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) DEP dramatically ordered a rerouting of Mariner East after Marsh Creek but DEP earlier ordered what failed and now blames Energy Transfer. It could have been avoided. The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) has no one to blame but themselves for what happened at Marsh Creek Lake in
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … .. Trades students are back at school in the Northern Tier thanks to natural gas industry funding help combined with agency perseverance. In support of trades-based education and programs geared to getting students into an ever-changing workforce more quickly, grants and various funding initiatives have helped educators and administrators get
Read More...French supermajor Total said Tuesday it’s starting a “new phase” with the purchase of London’s largest electric vehicle charging network, Kallanish Energy reports. Under the undisclosed deal, Total is acquiring the “Blue Point London” from the Bolloré Group, with over 1,600 on-street charger points. The network will be powered by 100% renewable electricity, supplied by
Read More...Azerbaijan’s state oil and gas company, SOCAR, said on Monday it has become the main natural gas supplier to Turkey, Kallanish Energy reports. “If a year ago Azerbaijani gas occupied the 4th-5th place in the Turkish market, now we are in the first place, which is very important for us and for Turkey, because gas
Read More...Banning fossil fuel infrastructure was the focus of one New York City Climate Week panel last week, and while that’s not surprising, the suggestion that the definition of this infrastructure should expand to include things like parking lots was just one of many “creative” polices that overlooked some greater considerations. Despite the emissions reductions attributed
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Joe Biden is busy trying to reassure some Pennsylvanians he might be fine with fracking but it’s not his call. When it is, he’s a big NO. Joe Biden was against fracking. Then, he told Pennsylvanians it was all a misunderstanding; he favored fracking. Then, after the usual
Read More...John Droz, Jr.Physicist & Citizen AdvocateAlliance for Wise Energy Decisions … John Droz effectively lays out the ugly nature of S.2657, an especially bad Senate bill epitomizing the smell of the Federal swamp. This is a simplified tale of how good intentions were cleverly hijacked by self-servingspecial-interest parties — with little publicity, and to the
Read More...Inter Pipeline and Pembina Pipeline, two Canadian midstream companies behind the country’s two biggest petrochemical projects, face a reality check after spending hundreds of millions in plans to go downstream by turning propane gas they traditionally only transported into plastic. × Inter Pipeline, halfway into a C$4-billion plant construction, struggles to find an equity partner
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