Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. [Editor’s Note: Victor Furman takes a look at President Xiden, his new green deal agenda and the terrible impact on families here and abroad.] You may have heard the news that China-compromised Joe Biden (a/k/a President Xiden) announced he will be converting all 650,000
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. The Cuomo Coverup: Is There FinallySome Justice for Victims of Gov. Cuorupptocrat? New York Southern Tier residents learned who Andrew Cuomo
Read More...Coronavirus vaccine distribution is taking longer than expected, but the medical and plastics industries both are putting in overtime to get the shots into arms. The pressure is on manufacturers of syringes, safety seals for vaccine doses and the vaccine production and delivery pipeline. “One of the challenges is how fast [processors] can transfer what
Read More...The Mountain Valley Pipeline will abandon its plan to use a blanket permit to cross nearly 500 streams and wetlands and instead seek individual approvals for each crossing, according to CBS 19 News. The decision is expected to make the project, which has already been plagued by regulatory and legal delays, more costly and time-consuming.
Read More...U.S. auto safety regulators picked up the pace this month, with NHTSA hastening efforts to finish projects, finalize rules and tie up loose ends in anticipation of President Joe Biden taking office. Since early January, the agency has issued long-awaited revisions to modernize certain federal safety standards for automated vehicles, proposed updates to its new-vehicle
Read More...Northwestern University nanotech researcher and entrepreneur Chad Mirkin has raised $5 million for a new startup. Stoicheia aims to do for materials science what human genomics has done for drug discovery. It plans to build libraries of materials that would allow companies in industries from chemicals to automobiles to quickly identify candidates for new or better
Read More...The calendar may have just flipped to 2021, but materials maker Americhem Inc. already has released its 2022 Color Trends. Officials with Americhem in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, said in a Jan. 26 news release that the 2022 color trend palette is based on a theme of Starved Senses & Fearless Futures. They added that the
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Environmental justice is one of those ginned up tools to exercise NIMBYism and advance special interests by selectively applying it.] On January 11, 2021 the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) Generation Advisory Panel met as part of the Climate Action Council Scoping Plan
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … Job Killer Joe is making it difficult, but oil and gas jobs are out there and NaturalGasNOW is making sure you know about them! The dictatorship of Job Killer Joe, who immediately wiped out thousands of Keystone Pipeline jobs by Executive Order, is causing pipeliners real pain and we
Read More...Yesterday EQT, the largest natural gas producer in the U.S., announced it is partnering with a Denver, CO company calling itself “Project Canary” on two test shale gas wells, to prove the gas produced is “certified responsibly sourced” natural gas. The test will purportedly prove that EQT is doing a good job of producing its
Read More...CNX released fourth-quarter and full-year numbers yesterday, but without the usual press release summarizing the results. CNX’s top brass did hold a conference call with analysts to discuss the update. Right out of the chute CEO Nick DeIuliis opened up the session by making four points. Nick’s very first point was that “2020 marked the
Read More...Well, this is a bummer. Dave Spigelmyer, someone we consider to be a friend, is retiring from the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) effective today. He will be replaced by MSC board member Dave Callahan, who officially takes over on Monday. Spigelmyer has been president (the second president of the MSC) since 2013. He took over
Read More...Invoking the words “coronavirus” and “COVID-19” like a magical talisman, Pennsylvania’s far-left, bumbling governor, Tom Wolf, has for the seventh year in a row issued a budget proposal that won’t pass because it includes a Marcellus-killing severance tax on top of the existing severance tax (called an impact “fee”). Every year the urgent/critical reason changes
Read More...Over the past week, the Enverus U.S. rig count jumped up by another 12 active rigs, making the new count 442. That’s the highest the rig count has been since April 2020 when the count began to drop like a rock as the coronavirus pandemic began to bite deeply. The count for both the Marcellus
Read More...Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) member Neil Chatterjee during a recent webinar “laid out the business case for the GOP to get on board with the clean energy transition.” Chatterjee “urged the natural gas sector to be nimble and open to new opportunities the transition may present.” What kind of “new” opportunities and “transition” is
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