In recent years, attorneys general in the District of Columbia, New York, Maryland and a handful of other states have sought to burnish their climate credentials by pursuing investigations and litigation against oil companies. In some cases, they have welcomed outside support through a controversial, Michael Bloomberg-funded law program, which was set up to help
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Senator Mike Lee gives a silly speech illustrating the sheer fantasy of the Green New Deal and nails what it’s all about; virtue signaling by chic elites. I find very little to like about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell but he impressed me this week by scheduling a vote
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The head of the International Energy Agency has just declared 2018 was another “golden year of gas” worldwide with gas representing almost half of demand. Yes, Dr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, just said this: “Last year can also be considered another golden year for
Read More...Stephen HeinsEnergy Consultant“The Word Merchant” … The American NGO community, financed by the likes of the Rockefeller family, is making difficult for ordinary Canadians, insuring nothing ever gets built. The great Vivian Krause has done a remarkably thorough job of detailing the enormous amount of money flowing from the American NGO community to environmental organizations
Read More...Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) The Con Ed moratorium on new gas connections is creating fallout from the Keep It in the Ground movement that normally supportive New Yorkers don’t like. When Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally banned fracking in New York State in December 2014—which subsequently eliminated 191,800 job
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Rep. Jonathan Fritz’s DRBC Eminent Domain Activity Act has received a bi-partisan recommendation from the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee! The DRBC takings bill, has been reintroduced in the Pennsylvania Senate as SB 305, the “Delaware River Basin Commission Eminent Domain Activity Act.” The same bill was also
Read More...Lower heating costs – brought on by increased natural gas production from the shale revolution – reduced winter mortality rates from 2000 to 2010, according to a new National Bureau of Economic Research paper. As the NBER paper explains, “We find that lower heating prices reduce mortality in winter months. The estimated effect size implies
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Fractivists grasp at everything to diss the natural gas industry, including safety, but it turns out the industry has an ever improving record on this score. Back in 2014, Scranton Times writer and king of snide, Chris Kelly, attacked the natural gas industry and everything and everyone connected to
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Natural gas consumption was up big-time in the U.S. in 2018, signaling not only an economic boom in this country but also the start of a golden age of gas. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is out with another of its wonderful reports offering “just the facts” and the facts
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. If you want to appreciate just how much damage Andrew Cuomo has done to New York take a quick look at the machinations of his Public Service Commission. Last month, as the potential for a moratorium on natural gas connections in the New York City metro area loomed, the New
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 the PennEast pipeline, ConEd moratorium, Connecticut solar and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH station!
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. GE will provide its record-setting HA gas turbine, the company’s most advanced and efficient technology ever, for a new energy project in Eastern Ohio. Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors LLC is developing a project known as the Long Ridge Energy Terminal in Eastern Ohio. It will, according to the company,
Read More...Two associations representing business interests in the Canadian city of Victoria recently wrote letters to the city’s mayor, Lisa Helps, asking her to back away from a resolution calling for a class-action lawsuit from local municipalities demanding payment for climate related damages to local infrastructure. The Victoria lawsuit would have many hurdles to clear and
Read More...A new wave of aggressive anti-oil and natural gas legislation is cropping up in several states, driven by national “Keep It In the Ground” (KIITG) groups that have failed numerous attempts at the federal level to restrict development. Emboldened by the introduction of the “Green New Deal”, KIITG groups have made it clear that nothing
Read More...Yesterday’s decision echoed similar actions Adams County took ahead of the 2018 election, when Proposition 112—or the mandated 2,500-foot setback—was on the ballot. This time, commissioners chose to put a stop to oil and gas activity in anticipation of a rush of permits being filed before SB-181 passes the state legislature and goes into effect. The move
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