The overwhelming majority of methane found in groundwater samples near natural gas and oil drilling sites in Pennsylvania is naturally occurring, and not related to fracking, according to a new study from Penn State University. The research, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and U.S. Geological Survey, found 99.92 percent of the 20,751 water
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Brooklyn, New York is apparently growing a new type of voter without the slightest clue how energy is made or delivered and politicians enable the ignorance. Subsequent to my post yesterday about New York politicians running on empty through bad neighborhoods, a friend sent me a Brooklyn story revealing
Read More...New Mexico’s growing oil and natural gas industry is set to generate “unprecedented opportunities” from a newly forecasted $174 billion in private infrastructure investments by 2030, the New Mexico Oil & Gas Association announced today. The forecast was included in a study by consulting firm ICF that said the new investment coupled with sound public
Read More...Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Extinction Rebellion is a climate extremist group focused principally on the UK. It suggests such extremism may be reaching peak lunacy levels, though. The surprisingly successful Extinction Rebellion is running a con game on everyone, especially their own followers. Ostensibly the standard bearer of
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … New York politicians, still imagining they’re living out their energy fantasies, are refusing to accept facts, as if running on empty through a bad neighborhood. How much self-deception can one practice before submitting to the truth? An infinite amount if New York politicians are any gauge. National Grid and
Read More...A new poll claims to show that a majority of registered voters would support holding energy companies liable “if it could be proven that they misled the public about the consequences of climate change.” However, the survey, which was conducted by progressive pollster YouGov Blue and commissioned by “left-leaning think tank” Data for Progress, lacks
Read More...As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has worked to revise its regulation of methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, “Keep It In The Ground” activists have upped their game in spreading false information, often relying on misguided studies like those from the Environmental Defense Fund. The EPA’s proposed changes include ways to
Read More...A new study raises questions about the model activist researchers use in their attempts to link fracking to health risks. A series of studies from Johns Hopkins University used a metric the researchers call “well activity” as a proxy for actually measuring exposure to air pollutants they claim are associated with oil and natural gas
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The Tesla solar debacle Is getting a lot of attention from Vanity Fair and a big lawsuit from Walmart. Both make great reading if you’re not Elon Musk. I don’t normally read Vanity Fair and I don’t do a lot of shopping at Walmart, but both these institutions have
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Susquehanna County landowners Edwin and Helen Mead have witnessed a renaissance as natural gas has helped them save their homestead and others prosper. Landowners Edwin and Helen Mead credit the natural gas industry for helping them keep their Bridgewater Township, Susquehanna County homestead and providing them enhanced opportunities.
Read More...2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is out with yet another climate proposal, this time to prosecute fossil fuel executives for causing climate change. In a tweet, the Vermont senator laid out his plan to go after certain energy companies: Fossil fuel executives should be criminally prosecuted for the destruction they have knowingly caused. #GreenNewDeal
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Governor Cuomo, responding to criticism about the limited options available to residents choosing New York license plate designs, offers one for upstate? Andrew Cuomo is receiving some heavy criticism regarding his New York license plate proposal. He is committed to updating New York license plates and has offered
Read More...The shale industry alone drove 10 percent of the growth in the U.S. economy’s gross domestic product from 2010 to 2015, according to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas showing how oil and natural gas deliver wins for the larger economy. During the same years, crude oil production jumped from 5.5
Read More...... … … The concept of a renewables reality is a foreign one to those wrapped in the ideology of the green new deal, but the problems with renewables cannot ignored. Mark Mills has a new report and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal entitled “If You Want ‘Renewable Energy,’ Get Ready to Dig” that point out the physical
Read More...The organization behind Climate Liability News (CLN), a dark money anti-oil and gas activist website set up to promote climate lawsuits, may be violating Maryland state law, according to the Daily Caller. A complaint filed by attorney Cleta Mitchell alleges that CLN’s parent organization failed to register with its home state and asks state officials
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