“Keep It In the Ground” activists have zeroed in on pipeline infrastructure in recent years for activities that risk danger to people and the environment while causing costly construction delays. In response, the U.S. government and multiple states have proposed or passed legislation to address the significant safety concerns created by these activists’ actions. Most
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Pennsylvania House Speaker Turzai provides a comprehensive statement on Restore PA, Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to put a severance tax on the natural gas industry. Mike Turzai is the savvy leader of Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives. Speaker Turzai, in fact, has thwarted the worst excesses of the Wolf
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Electric transmission by train may be coming soon if Alternative Transmission Inc.’s plan to move stored electricity by containers rail cars is accepted. It’s no joke. Electric transmission by train could well be coming soon. It all depends on whether or Alternative Transmission Inc. (ATI) gets a FERC
Read More...Environmental activists who have cheered the ongoing power transition in the United Kingdom — which went a record 18 days and 6 hours of powering its electric grid without using coal — are overlooking an inconvenient fact for their cause. The UK was able to maintain its grid stability by increasing its use of natural
Read More...The activists at Oil Change International said they wanted to dispel what they call the “myth” that American natural gas is a solution to climate concerns in their latest report on our clean energy future. Instead, they relied on and repeated their own tired “Keep It In the Ground” (KIITG) myths while ignoring key data
Read More...There is more good news for Americans looking to start a career in the oil and natural gas industry: Petroleum engineering tops the list of highest-paid college majors in 2019, according to CNBC. The network analyzed census data from career planning site Zippia on graduates with 174 majors, and the results are clear: “When looking
Read More...It’s a bright day for Fort Lauderdale. Despite a full-court press by climate activists, city officials have decided not to pursue a climate liability lawsuit. This is a blow for climate activists, who are hoping to expand their litigation campaign into Florida. Over the past six months, lawyers and environmental groups have devoted considerable time and
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Combined-cycle natural gas power plants offer lower cost electricity than anything else, especially renewables, the true costs of which are never counted. Our friends at the Institute of Energy Research have come out with a study that finally examines the true costs of renewables, including their impacts on
Read More...Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC Is an Oregon fracking ban about to happen? Do residents of the Left Coast have the slightest idea what they are risking or what the downsides might be?. By a vote of 17-11, the Oregon State Senate last week passed a five-year moratorium on fracking in that State. The Senate
Read More...Last week, environmental activists upped the pressure on ExxonMobil and Chevron shareholders to pass extreme resolutions on climate change. Shareholders sent a clear message: no thanks. Chevron’s shareholder meeting included two climate resolutions: a measure to create a new board committee on climate and another demanding the creation of a report tracking Chevron’s emissions against the
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 New York City blackouts, fossil fuels, an American success story and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … NY Post readers were treated to the one of the best editorials it has yet to write on the subject of energy. It demolishes Cuomo’s renewables delusion. The NY Post has neatly summarized the immense problems with Andrew Cuomo’s renewables delusion. Indeed, I have to wonder if some
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. New York Is the Biggest Loser As Wealth Leaves the Empire State Andrew Cuomo, New York’s follower in
Read More...The activist who wrote a 2012 memo encouraging anti-fracking groups to connect health problems and fracking even when no evidence existed to support the claims recently co-authored a report admitting that the vast majority of scientific research shows no harmful air pollutants near oil and natural gas sites. As the report explains, “Air pollution near
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … H.B. 827, Rep Jonathan Fritz’s bill to compensate DRBC landowners for their huge losses from the taking that would result from a fracking ban, is attacked. Former English teacher and now Rep. Wendy Ullman is from Bucks County, Pennsylvania where the average household income in 2017 was $108,848 compared
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