Natural Gas Now Best Picks – May 6, 2023
Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.
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Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.
This week: Big Ugly Green Grifters (BUGGs) invade the beaches of Delaware and New Jersey as Brits substitute blankets for natural gas and deal with solar scams.
Look for these stories below, including links to the original articles!
Wake Up Westerners! We Have Been Captured by Corporatists!
We are the frog in the boiling pot and id we don’t soon wake up, jump out and turn our attention to the corporatists who’ve captured nearly every bit of Western Civilization, we are going to live in poverty as serfs in their world. Here is the end result:
“Never in my career did I expect to be creating warm banks,” said Ian Brookfield, the Labour leader of Wolverhampton council. “I’m embarrassed that in this country we’re having to do this.”
…people in Wolverhampton are facing the highest rates of fuel poverty of any local authority in England. Compared with a national average of 13%, Wolverhampton has a fuel poverty rate of 22.4%.
To prepare for winter, the council has created 38 “warm spaces” in council buildings and community centres across the city. From 24 October they will be open to the public for people to warm up, charge their phone and have a hot drink.
“I’m not going to be happy that we’re opening these,” said Brookfield. “But we’re doing it because there is a very realistic chance we will lose people, not from accidents or illness but because they can’t afford to heat or eat.”
…While Liz Truss was busy in Birmingham trying to unite the party behind her economic policies, there was fear and anger on the streets of Wolverhampton over rising living costs.
Beverley Buckley, 53, said she was already wrapping up in blankets to keep heating costs low, as her energy bills are set to double from October.
“I’ve had to leave work recently because of ill health, so my worry is how the hell am I going to pay my bills? It is a big worry,” she said. “I’ve stopped putting the central heating on and stopped using my [clothes] dryer, because that uses a lot of electricity.
“I was told if I use less energy then I hopefully shouldn’t pay double, but I wasn’t using much in the first place, how much less can I use?”
…Bernard Gamage, a 70-year-old retired jockey, said: “They’ve had 13 years to get the country sorted. We’ve had correspondence from E.ON that our bills are going up in October again. But I am not intending to pay the extra. People are going to refuse.”
This is the sort of article one expects to find in the leftist Guardian; an attack on Conservatives with no mention of the role of Labour and Conservatives in foisting this misery on Brits to satisfy the unquenchable thirst of corporatists. Or, as I call them, Big Ugly Green Grifters or BUGGS) for money and power under the cover of the climate scam as they trash natural gas. To get a little more perspective, but hardly the whole disgusting truth, there’s another Guardian piece shining just a bit of light on the problem:
More than 230 residents in Stoke-on-Trent are to launch a class action lawsuit against the city council after they claim they were “mis-sold” 25-year solar power contracts which have left some with faulty panels and unexpected bills.
Council house tenants in the city said they feel “lied to” after being signed up to the contracts without realising, and facing years of what they believe is poor quality customer service and installation.
Community Energy Scheme (CES) was launched in 2018 by the city council in conjunction with Solarplicity Energy, which sent staff door to door to encourage residents to sign up to the solar panel scheme. It now has 4,800 customers in the city.
Tenants signed up to contracts on the spot with a signature on an iPad, but many residents said they thought they were only agreeing to have their home assessed for its suitability for solar panel installation.
Cassandra Burton, 50, has lived in her three-bedroom semi-detached council property for 15 years, and was alone at home when someone from CES came. “I thought it was for them to do a survey on the property, check the roof basically. I signed the iPad and that was it, I never heard anything else from them,” she said. “I had no idea I’d signed up to a 25-year contract until we read a story in the newspaper about them.”
She later found out her digital signature had been copied on to three separate documents. “I’m autistic, I was by myself, I didn’t have my partner with me, I just thought it was a council thing. I feel like they took advantage,” said Burton, adding that her solar panels were never hooked up to her electricity supply but she still received bills.
So, there you have it. The commoner is cheated at every turn. He is but a serf ordered to labor for the corporatists and thrown a few blankets at the end to keep warm. Meanwhile, Labour politicians attack Conservatives and Conservatives attack Labour as both join in promoting the climate scam; one for money and one for power.
And, Liz Truss, who promised to frack for natural gas, which would solve every energy problem the UK has as a result green grifting, is thrown out in a coup to be replaced by Rishi Sunack, a loyal member of the corporatist class who promptly scuttled the climate scam competition and effectively ended Brexit. And the common man is left to weep as he sees a Western Civilization that gave him freedom and opportunity gasping its last breaths.
Hat Tip: B.T.
And, for Still More Corporatism by
Big Ugly Green Grifters (BUGGS) on the Beach
This one speaks for itself. Delaware residents are being treated just like Brits as their corporatists fight natural gas, too, as a way to advance BUGGS wind schemes:
I am a proud member of the Caesar Rodney Institute. We are a voluntary watch dog group overlooking Delaware politics.
Here is a recent communication regarding the proposed wind farms proposed offshore all along the U.S. East Coast as well as the Great Lakes. The proponents are all backed by interest groups which profit from wind farms.
We Oppose Delaware Offshore Wind because it’s Expensive, Unreliable, and Threatens the Natural Environment
Setting the Record Straight on Why Caesar Rodney Institute Opposes Offshore Wind Farms:
(NEWARK, DE. May 2, 2023) – In a recent announcement, NJ League of Conservation Voters’ Executive Director, Ed Potosnak accused the Caesar Rodney Institute of running a “misinformation campaign” against offshore wind.
In the spirit of information, we visited the NJ League of Conservation Voters’ Gala website so that we could understand who was backing their organization. We found that Mr. Potosnak shouldn’t be throwing stones when it comes to casting aspersions about funding and influence.
We found that Mr. Potosnak’s organization has impressive backing from in and out-of-state/country businesses and special interests that will benefit from the policies he promotes in the name of NJ residents. The list includes:
• Neste—an oil refining and marketing company based in Finland.
• Attentive Energy, a subsidiary of Texas-based Total Energies US, is developing an 84,332-acre wind farm 42 miles off of the NJ shore.
• Ocean Wind 1, an Ørsted and PSEG project, is located 15 miles off the coast of Southern NJ.
The list goes on…
CRI’s History with Offshore Wind
In 2019, a small group of concerned beach property owners from Fenwick Island, DE, contacted CRI asking for help. They had heard of a rapidly developing offshore wind project being built off their coast and wanted us to look into how it would affect them. The initial research uncovered some disturbing facts.
First, the Maryland Public Service Commission approved two offshore wind projects that were being built off the coast of Delaware and Maryland.
Second, although it would be off Delaware’s coast, Delaware government officials or residents were not part of this offshore wind project discussions.
Third, the electricity being produced by the offshore wind would go to Maryland residents and NOT Delaware residents. The substation, however, would be housed in Delaware.
Our residents became concerned with this news and decided other property owners who did not live there year-round needed to know what was happening. So, Save Our Beach View was formed as a special project of CRI and solely funded by the Delaware beach property owners.
We had also discovered that under the radar, several “offshore wind” ocean lease areas had been sold to European developers along the East Coast. Word quickly spread throughout the internet about Save Our Beach View. We received many calls and emails from other beach communities up and down the Atlantic coast and organizations who had heard about offshore wind development in their town.
Realizing that we were facing something larger than just a Delaware issue, we formed ACOP (American Coalition for Ocean Protection), a community network where concerned beach communities and non-partisan think tanks can ask questions or share information relevant to offshore wind.
Today, several beach communities and organizations have filed lawsuits against Offshore Wind Developers and BOEM for various reasons. CRI is not involved in any of these lawsuits-other than the information we provide to help with their initial inquiry. In addition, ACOP created an Ocean Legal Defense Fund (OLDF) to help to pay for some lawsuits, and 100% of the OLDF are donations from individual donors.
Setting the Record Straight.
CRI’s offshore wind research analyzes the high costs associated with offshore wind development. We oppose offshore wind because we favor lower energy costs and would like more environmentally friendly options.
CRI is NOT a fossil fuel-funded think tank. We receive donations from donors who agree with our policy recommendations, including about 1% of our total donations from the oil industry—again, given the donors that we know of to the NJ League of Conservation Voters, it is perhaps their group that should be classified as a fossil fuel and industry-funded organization. Supporters of CRI do not influence CRI’s fact-based, well-researched policy conclusions. Donations from thousands of individuals have been the “sole source” of funding for this research.
We represent a community of citizens who ask, is “offshore wind” the key component to combating warming temperatures? Our research is not alone in indicating that offshore wind farms are proven to be an expensive and unreliable alternative source. Let’s collectively work together, look at carbon capture, advanced nuclear power, and other technologies, and stop using ad hominem attacks against one another.
It’s truly disgusting how the climate scammers always resort to those ad hominem attacks as rebuttals to undeniable grifting taking place, but that[‘s where we’re at today, isn’t it?
Hat Tip: R.N.
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