While global carbon emissions saw a slight increase in 2019, the United States continued its long-term trend of reducing these emissions – at the same time that natural gas production and demand continued to increase – according to BP’s 2020 Statistical Review of World Energy. This year’s edition was published amidst one of the most
Read More...Colorado’s methane emissions are coming from background sources in areas far from the state’s oil and natural production, according to a report recently published by the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. The report also finds that agriculture and wetlands are contributing significantly to emissions. The Payne Institute report utilized
Read More...The Rocky Mountain Institute has campaigned in favor of electrifying everything – forcing people to use exclusively electric appliances under the false promise of solving CO2 emissions and climate change. In RMI’s latest installment, part of its ongoing series focused on electrification, the “Keep It In the Ground” group argues that residential electric heat pumps
Read More...Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Crony capitalism or real capitalism? The answer is obvious yet too many companies in recent years, GE being the prime example, drifted toward the former.] A May 27, 2020, piece at EnergyWire (E&E News) reported the latest
Read More...Here are the top news stories covering Canada’s energy landscape: Canadian LNG Alliance Launches The British Columbia Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Alliance formally became the Canadian LNG Alliance (Canadian LNGA) this week to reflect the critical role of LNG for Canada’s COVID-19 economic recovery. Bryan Cox, President and CEO of the Canadian LNG Alliance, issued
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Andrew Cuomo has put the New York State Public Service Commission into one of those movie scenes where walls are closing in and there is no way to escape. Fossil fuel haters in New York successfully pressured New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reject the Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement
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 Opec output, EPA water rule, Chesapeake Energy and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport
Read More...Natalie DeCarioExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor Comment: Personal Protective Equipment or PPE is what protects health care workers and emergency workers during the pandemic and it begins with natural gas.] Looking at the global pandemic that impacted millions over the past few months, N95 masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE)
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. Can The United States Senate Stop Germany’s GasPipeline From Russia In A Post-Coronavirus World? Dan Markind compares the self-imposed German energy
Read More...Canadians are consuming more, but producing less natural gas in recent years, according to a recent analysis of U.S. Energy Information Administration data conducted by the Canadian Energy Centre. Canadian energy demand, due in-large part to the country’s geographical location and harsh winters, drastically varies throughout the year. The need to provide power and heat
Read More...The Democratic Senate primary in Colorado heated up this week with two debates between former Gov. John Hickenlooper and former State House Speaker Andrew Romanoff. Unfortunately, each candidate was only asked one question apiece both nights on energy. Hickenlooper, who supported the industry while governor, discussed a “fast” transition away from “carbon-based energy” like oil
Read More...“Keep It In The Ground” activist group Colorado Rising recently announced that it is abandoning its campaign to put costly new anti-oil and natural gas initiatives up for a vote in November after admitting it couldn’t gather enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. As Reuters reported: “A Colorado environmental group dropped plans to place
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. Will Southeast PA Get Its Comeuppance? Southeast Pennsylvania might as well be another country as far as the rest of the
Read More...An investigation conducted by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has once again shown that the air quality is safe around a local school in Greeley and nearby oil and natural gas wellsite. The Denver Post reported on CDPHE’s findings from its third round of air sampling at that location: “An investigation into
Read More...This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it would update Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, helping to accelerate and promote the construction of critical infrastructure projects. Across the country, New York and other states have misused Section 401 of the Clean Water Act as a means to block and delay oil and
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