... … … New Jersey’s already high electric bills are about to get higher. As the Governor proposes more renewables and subsidies, ratepayers will foot the bill. People who believe that wind and solar power are lowering their electric bills should look at New Jersey. Garden State electric bills are increasing to cover the costs
Read More...K.J. RodgersCrownsville, Maryland …. …. K.J. Rodgers writes to Maryland Public Service Commission noting conversions of coal power plants to gas have reduced emissions 13 to 1 versus renewables. The Charles P. Crane Generating Station, a 400 megawatt coal power plant located in Bowleys Quarters, Maryland, 14 miles east of Baltimore was closed in June
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, offshore drilling, the Shell ethane pipeline and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH station!
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Mark Mathis produces yet another excellent video from the Clear Energy Alliance and dispenses with the “clean energy” myth at the heart of that huge scam. The “clean energy” scam is all about money. It’s really green rent seeking from ratepayers and taxpayers. It uses global warming as an
Read More...Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman was in court Friday for another chapter of the Pigs to Rigs case, where Bill Huston was forced to admit he never saw dumping he claimed he had. Unless the truth is revealed, the lie will live on. I saw that on
Read More...Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Absent Andy Dinniman is at it again, pushing a bill to suspend Pennsylvania PUC and DEP regulation of natural gas liquid pipelines. It’s a stupid stunt. When it comes to pipeline development, Sen. Dinniman says he just wants to ensure it’s done right and done safely. The reality
Read More...Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Officers from 10 Western Susquehanna County fire companies attended a dinner and safety discussion hosted by Cabot Oil & Gas on March 20. As natural gas drilling escalates in Susquehanna County, so too does the amount of traffic associated with the industry and the need for first responders
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. The facts are the facts: Renewables such as wind and solar get lots of positive press. But last year
Read More...... … … Wind and solar tax credits are horribly distorting our energy markets and need to be reined in before we end up like Germany with quadrupled electric rates. The U.S. Treasury estimates that the Production Tax Credit will cost taxpayers $40.12 billion from 2018 to 2027, making it the most expensive energy subsidy
Read More...West Virginia Governor Jim Justice vetoed legislation this week that would have provided needed funding to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection for plugging the state’s more than 4,000 orphaned and abandoned oil and natural gas wells. While Gov. Justice acknowledged the revenue that would have been generated by HB 2673 – up to
Read More...This week, CNN ran a piece attempting to influence the confirmation hearing of acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt. The report lobbed criticism at the Bureau of Land Management for approving oil and gas permits during January’s government shutdown – framing it as the oil and gas sector skirting the effects of the shutdown while the
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … The Delaware Povertykeeper and other hired gentry class bullies are preparing to fight the Consitution Pipeline again as prospects for FERC approval rise. Anti-fossil fuel radicals are making noises, threatening noises, about how they may react when and if (as seems likely) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Read More...Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … Science, technology, engineering and math, four disciplines commonly known as STEM capabilities are the essence of oil and gas and women have been pioneers. For Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting pioneers of science, technology, engineering, and math fields that have always been important to Cabot. The innovators
Read More...The U.S. Chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) recently released two reports examining the impacts of climate liability lawsuits in the United States. Waking the Litigation Monster focuses on the misuse of public nuisance action, while Mitigating Municipality Litigation examines the growing trend of municipalities engaging in costly lawsuits against different industries. The reports detail the ramifications of such
Read More...The switch to natural gas for electricity generation prevented 95 million tons of CO2 emissions in 2018, according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report. The report found that global energy emissions increased 1.7 percent in 2018 – largely attributable to increased global energy demand. And as IEA explained, without the switch to natural
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