Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, July 14, 1923 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. It’s fun and illuminating to look back 100 years ago at what
Read More...Eugene, Oregon’s city council recently repealed its ordinance banning natural gas in homes before the issue could come to a vote in November. The decision comes weeks after two polls show a lack of interest in banning natural gas across adults nationwide, and months after the Ninth Circuit Court overruled Berkeley’s natural gas ban, which
Read More...The UK government announced in June that its windfall tax on the oil and gas sector will not be applied if prices drop below certain levels for six months in a row due to a new price floor mechanism. As EID has previously explained, the windfall tax (formally known as the energy profit levy) was
Read More...The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has vacated the Department of Energy’s efficiency standards for commercial boilers. According to the panel of judges, “the DOE again failed to offer a sufficient explanation in response to the comments [from petitioners] challenging a key assumption in its analysis.” Assumptions Come Undone This is
Read More...Dennis Farm Preserved with Help from Coterra Energy Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … .. [Editor’s Note: The Dennis Farm is a marvelous example of how the oil and gas industry works with communities to make them truly sustainable in the very best sense of the word.] Coterra Energy has enjoyed a long relationship with
Read More...The reviews on the climate lawsuit filed last month by Multnomah County, Oregon are in, and they aren’t pretty. The lawsuit, which attempts to blame a number of energy companies for the effects of the 2021 heat dome extreme weather event that hit Portland and the surrounding region, has been met with significant skepticism from across the
Read More...OSW Is Outrageous Spending on Wind That Makes Zero Sense Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Offshore wind, or OSW as it is commonly termed, is the con game of con games, a ridiculous and ridiculously expensive way to generate unreliable electricity.] A
Read More...Subsidies: The Mother’s Milk of Corporatism and Grifting David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: The big lie is that green energy is getting cheaper all the time, but the truth is that none of these schemes are profitable all. They depend on your subsidies.] Everyone should read and think
Read More...Climate Bullies and Cultists Confronted by Unafraid Realist Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Global warming isn’t science for climate bullies. It’s a religious cult for these true believers and a sweet spot for the corporatist funders who enable them.] Here’s a scientific fact: Humans (indeed all animals)
Read More...Blather Here, Blather There, Nothing Between Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. [Editor’s Note: Blather is the state of PR today and it’s a direct result of corporate America falling into a political correctness trap that ends with a copier in the woods.] I recently came across a story some of you may
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 8, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week: junk science that blinds ideologues, corporatism on parade through the UK and here, stopping
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, July 7, 1923 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. It’s fun and illuminating to look back 100 years ago at what
Read More...Watching the Ohio Oil & Gas Land Management Commission’s June meeting on leasing the state’s mineral rights and recent coverage of a related protest is like taking a time machine back to 2013. Fortunately, many of the concerns raised about fracking, produced water management and other related issues are ones that have been put to
Read More...Reclamation Art Shows Us Oil and Gas Are Beautiful! [Editor’s Note: Reclamation follows oil and gas development, including pipelines, and it’s often beautiful, as the Canadian Energy Centre shows with S.C. King’s reclamation art.] There’s something about art that can change a person’s perspective. An artist’s interpretation can highlight the stunning beauty in
Read More...Offshore Wind Promoters Paving the Road to Energy Hell Mark Sertoff NaturalGasNOW Retired Science/Technology Educator and Musician [Editor’s Note: Off-shore wind via politically correct governors, is the world’s biggest boondoggle; it busts our budgets, ruins our shores and paves the way to energy hell.] The stampede to build offshore wind turbines to replace fossil fuel
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