Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. First, FERC and now the D.C. Court of Appeals. Cuomo’s New York and his Public Service Commission are being slapped left and right by those onto his game. There is still more good bad news for Andrew Cuomo and great news for the pipeline industry, adjoining states and New
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Some states just can’t get their energy acts together. Plagued by political correctness, urban states tilt at windmills while Pennsylvania heats their homes. Pennsylvania is, sadly, bordered on three sides by hopeless urban states (Maryland, New Jersey and New York) that can’t shoot straight when it comes to energy.
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. FERC Blows Away DEC FERC is firing on Andrew Cuomo’s DEC with the big guns now. It just rejected
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … ConEd and Cuomo’s PSC say some combination of solar, other renewables and heat pumps can substitute for the gas Cuomo keeps stopping at the border. Dumb idea. New York’s proposed Community and Climate Protection Act has a goal for “the state of New York to reduce greenhouse
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … The New York State DEC has obviously been instructed by Andrew Cuomo to keep the game going against the Constitution Pipeline by throwing a Hail Mary pass. The Cuomo-corrupted New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is spitting and sputtering, “warning” the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that if
Read More...Climate litigation in Canada is hitting more roadblocks after Mike Layton, a member of the Toronto city council, introduced a motion that asks the city to track costs related to climate change and study legal strategies to “recover costs” from energy companies. Like other attempts to get Canadian municipalities onto the climate litigation bandwagon, this
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. President Donald Trump’s economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, has confirmed Trump pipeline executive order is, in fact, coming soon, which is great news indeed! Yes, the great Larry Kudlow spoke at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast event yesterday. He confirmed a pipeline executive order from the President is, in fact,
Read More...Richard DowneyUnatego Area Landowners Association Richard Downey says Upstate New York, and Downstate as well, desperately needs more affordable energy, which means natural gas, not more renewable energy. Oneonta needs natural gas. Supply is not meeting demand in downstate’s Westchester, Brooklyn, and Queens nor in Upstate New York’s Oneonta. The cracks are beginning to show.
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The foolish idea the Indian Point nuclear station can be replaced by a bunch of solar farms offering expensive intermittent energy is exposed as a fraud. Andrew Cuomo has been aching for the longest time to see the Indian Point nuclear station shut down. He browbeat it into agreeing
Read More...The Colorado General Assembly passed its contentious overhaul of state oil and gas regulations today, sending it to Governor Jared Polis’ desk for final signature. SB-181 invokes several changes to existing law, including increased input from local communities, changes to forced pooling thresholds and an update to the mission and make-up of the Colorado Oil
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Any remaining semblance of reasonableness connected with state water quality certification has been destroyed by Andrew Cuomo. What can be done now? That question has already been partly answered by the Hoopa decision, which I discussed here and, more recently, here. The D.C. Court of Appeals, the most important
Read More...... … … U.S. energy exports are growing in a big way and are already leading to U.S. energy dominance, a result thought impossible by many until the shale revolution. The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) five-year outlook expects that the United States will overtake Russia and potentially Saudi Arabia as an oil exporter by 2024. The U.S. shale
Read More...Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund founder Thomas Linzey has made it clear that he has no issue with bankrupting towns to push his anti-energy “Rights of Nature” agenda. For one rural community in Pennsylvania, that’s exactly what could happen following a federal court ruling this week that found the Indiana County township financially responsible for
Read More...Just two months after the New York Times reported that Texas and New Mexico’s Permian Basin could surpass Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar oilfield to become the highest producing oilfield in the world in the next three years, data released this week provided a new take: It already did. Now we know the Permian basin is now
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. The Rockefeller gang, in the guise of 350.org and its affiliates is trying hard to kill the NESE project by playing Andrew Cuomo. Or, is it the opposite? It’s amazing how easy it is to manipulate New Yorkers and, especially, the New York press. There is a major move
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