Xcel Energy, a major power utility serving Colorado customers, released its Clean Energy Plan this week that underscores the key role that natural gas will play in reducing emissions in the state while providing reliable, dispatchable power to support renewable sources. By replacing dirtier fuels, the use of natural gas will help Xcel reach its
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … You may imagine I’m putting lipstick on a pig but, mark my words, the DRBC ban is a fatal misstep by this gang of public agency thieves. Well, after a decade of pretending they weren’t stealing the gas rights of Upper Delaware landowners, the Commissioners of the Delaware
Read More...President Biden has promised on numerous occasions that he will not ban fracking, yet in a first test today the Biden administration refused to uphold this commitment, offering its support of a fracking ban: “The federal government is abstaining from today’s vote. We respect the outcome of this vote.” – Brigadier General Thomas J. Tickner,
Read More...Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. [Editor’s Note: Andrew Cuomo is corrupt and the whole world now knows it. The Cuomo revelations tell us it is time to re-examine his fracking ban.] It’s out now, The narcissistic ways of the king have been revealed, showing that, all along, he was
Read More...It’s no secret that New Mexico is in a bind. From the Biden administration’s efforts to ban new permits and leases on federal land, to the New Mexico legislature’s move to place a ban on new hydraulic fracturing permits on state lands during this legislative session, there’s an all-out assault against the state’s energy industry.
Read More...During the second day of her confirmation hearing to serve as Interior Secretary, Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) definitively said that the Biden administration’s “pause” on oil and natural gas permitting and leasing on federal lands won’t become a permanent policy. After again being repeatedly pressed by members of the U.S. Senate Energy & Natural Resources
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Facebook is into brainwashing these days, labeling it as fact-finding and using phony excuses to hide its own very political agenda.] A friend recently posted information on Facebook that the Texas blackout situation was a “literal perfect storm test if an all-renewable energy
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: If the third time wasn’t the charm, the seventh time is surely dead on arrival for Tom the Trust-Funder Wolf’s severance tax obsession.] As we reported in January, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (Democrat) has, for the seventh year in a row, introduced a Marcellus-killing severance tax proposal
Read More...The Biden administration’s orders on oil and natural gas leasing and permitting on federal lands are not permanent bans, according to Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), during day one of her confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary who said. Throughout the hearing, Rep. Haaland repeatedly told members of the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee that she
Read More...On Tuesday, the City of Annapolis, Maryland announced it filed a public nuisance climate change lawsuit against major energy producers and one trade association, with city officials acknowledging they began pursuing the case after being approached by a well-known “Keep It In The Ground” activist group funded by the Rockefellers. In fact, this activist group
Read More...Bob NolanWayne County, Pennsylvania, Landowner …. Our friend Bob Nolan uses Dickens and Blazing Saddles to illustrate what a bunch of phonies the DRBC amounts to when it comes to us. Ironic how relevant Charles Dickens’ novel “Martin Chuzzlewit” remains in today’s world.“Seth Pecksniff, a character with a holier-than-thou attitude in Charles Dickens’s 1844 novel
Read More...A lot of Americans prefer gas appliances, and for good reason: Natural gas is reliable, affordable, and for those that love to cook, it outperforms when creating their favorite dishes. Yet, a recent Mother Jones article attempts to make the case that somehow “the fossil fuel industry convinced Americans to love gas.” The article misrepresents
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. The Texas blackout is a matter of deception as well as reality, as Mark Mathis illustrates with a fresh take video explanation! That Texas blackout was the entirely predictable result of a bunch of policies, subsidies and incredible governmental distortions of the energy market. Our friend, Mark Mathis,
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Illinois landowners have gotten some attention with their Petition to the Supreme Court for Certiorari and the DRBC should be worried. The DRBC has spent a decade frustrating the efforts of landowners in the basin to develop their natural gas resources. It has done so with an illegal
Read More...Nearly three and a half years: That’s how long the Delaware River Basin Commission has been sitting on regulations it opened for public comment that could decide the fate of oil and natural gas development within the region. It appears this week the commission will finally (maybe) answer the question: Can shale development occur in
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