Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC The folly of the unilateral energy disarmament being practiced on the West Coast and in New England shows the U.S. is being made less secure by fractivism. Two attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz have set the energy world, and the world at large, on edge. It
Read More...New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James’s case Martin Act case against ExxonMobil is still in pre-trial hearings, but Justice Barry Ostrager is already losing patience. On Monday, at an initial hearing to discuss dismissing five of ExxonMobil’s defenses and other pre-trial motions, Justice Ostrager pushed the AG’s office to whittle down its lengthy witness
Read More...“Keep It In the Ground” activist groups have added a self-proclaimed “sophisticated” effort to their misinformation campaign to stop oil and natural gas leasing on federal lands. The groups have bolstered their total war approach by filing formal protests to nearly every lease application across the country in hopes of overwhelming the Bureau of Land
Read More...The United States shattered the previous record for the largest single-year increase in oil and natural gas production in 2018, according to BP’s annual Statistical Review of World Energy. Last year proved to be a truly transformative one for American energy dominance: Although the United States holds less than 4 percent of the world’s oil
Read More...... … … Zero emissions claims are popular these days but they seldom pan out, as is the case with electric vehicles in Germany. CNG vehicles make a lot more sense. A study by the IFO think tank in Munich found that electric vehicles in Germany emit 11 percent to 28 percent more carbon dioxide than their diesel counterparts.
Read More...Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Pipeline opponents are some of the most irrational people. They’ve talked some agencies into going well beyond letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. When it comes to pipeline opponents, all too often it’s not a case of “letting the perfect crowd
Read More...Horizontally drilled wells now account for 96 percent of U.S. oil production from shale formations, as well as about 97 percent of shale gas production – up from 15 percent and 14 percent, respectively, in 2004 – according to a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Horizontal drilling, used in conjunction with hydraulic fracturing
Read More...Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced that he is “shooting for the moon” and spending $500 million “to close every coal-fired power plant in the United States and halt the growth of natural gas,” through a Beyond Carbon campaign led by the Sierra Club. But the proposal is out-of-touch with reality and
Read More...The United States – currently the third largest exporter of liquefied natural gas – will surpass Australia and Qatar to become the world’s largest exporter of LNG within five years, according to a recent International Energy Agency report. The United States Will Continue to Rapidly Grow Its LNG Exports. The United States exported nearly 1.6
Read More...Betty SutliffWayne County LandownerUDRBC Secretary DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini didn’t like being called out for lobbying the Pennsylvania legislature in opposition to Jonathan Fritz’s H.B. 827. On June 6, 2019, several members of the Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens attended the Upper Delaware Council (UDC) meeting in Narrowsburg. DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini
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 and Sundays on YesFM, talked about LNG exports, NJ pipeline denial, natural gas demand and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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. Natural Gas Is the Future for Electricity The numbers keep stacking up: Across the U.S., gas could supply
Read More...A growing trend of oil and gas industry visitors is sparking increased tourism offerings in Belmont County, Ohio, according to local officials. The Herald-Star recently reported that an energy industry expo at the Ohio Valley Mall in April was a “chance to popularize tourism sites in the county,” and that the area expects even more
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The New York Green New Deal is a proposal without a plan; rhetoric wrapped in political promises that have no substance because there is no nothing there. My biggest problem with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Green New Deal proposal to achieve 70 percent renewable energy
Read More...Madison WeaverCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … Proved reserves of natural gas and other natural resources grow with technology, a point modern Malthusians such as fractivists never quite seem to grasp. Natural gas reserves can be looked at like a large iceberg: proved reserves consist of natural gas that is known to be
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