Tom ShepstoneShepstone 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. As usual, emphasis is added. Anti-Fracking Crusade Running Out of Gas? Dan Markind does an election overview with respect to states where fracking has been an
Read More...... … … Editor’s Note: Biden’s plans to recreate the entire U.S. energy system beginning with electricity over the next 14 years will result in enormous costs. Joe Biden’s climate and energy plans mandate a carbon-free generation sector by 2035. Since new nuclear and carbon capture and sequestration technologies are not economically competitive, subsidized wind
Read More...Sterling BurnettSenior Fellow, Energy and Environment, The Heartland Institute … … [Editor’s Note: The real Biden/Harris Energy/Climate Plan is far more dangerous than their equivocating political statements this October.] Pundits have regularly opined about the possibility of an “October Surprise,” in the 2020 election race, a Hallowe’en trick that could change Presidential fortunes for one
Read More...American consumers and businesses can count on the strongest energy security in a generation thanks in no small part to oil and natural gas produced right here at home, according to the Global Energy Institute’s annual Index of U.S. Energy Security Risk. The index gave an energy security risk score of 70.1 in 2019 –
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Painterland is the name of a very special farm where natural gas and organic dairy products are still produced thanks to natural gas. October is Farm to School Month in Pennsylvania, and Oct. 12 was National Farmers Day. Many in the agricultural industry take this month to help people
Read More...... … … Editor’s Note: EVs are PC in places such as California and New Jersey where Democrat governors are eager to buy into Joe Biden’s electric vehicle scheme. New Jersey is following California’s lead in banning the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 in line with Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden’s push for
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Lansing is the dying part of Planet Ithaca where no one can get the natural gas they need thanks to NYSEG and pipeline opponents. What is happening in Lansing, NY is absolute insanity possible only in the political correct worlds of places such New York and, especially Planet
Read More...Last week’s Air Quality Control Commission hearing revealed deep ideological divisions among its members, but also an acknowledgement that oil and natural gas should play a crucial role in Colorado’s economy. After the Colorado State Assembly passed HB 1261 in 2019 that mandated reducing statewide GHG pollution 26 percent by 2025, 50 percent by 2030,
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Something remarkable has happened thanks to Joe Biden, whose fracking debacle has gotten pushback and much deserved media attention. Our former guest blogger, Dan Markind, has moved on to writing some excellent energy columns for Forbes magazine. Dan was always an observer par excellence when it came to
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The 76West competition has spent millions to promote and build clean energy in New York, but it still doesn’t matter near as much as fracking. Governor Cuomo announced this year’s winners of the 2020 76West Clean Energy Competition on October 19, 2020. This post discusses
Read More...Water plays a significant role in the production, transportation, and end-use distribution of all energy resources. Whether it’s used to extract more hydrocarbons from shale rock via hydraulic fracturing or produced as a drilling byproduct – commonly referred to as “produced water” – operators rely upon a fresh water supply to safely and efficiently develop
Read More...Canada’s oil and natural gas industry, which is largely based in Alberta, is responsible for contributing to Ontario’s economic success, according to new figures from the Canadian Energy Centre. The CEC’s figures, based on survey results from 2016, reveal the oil and natural gas generated more than $7.3 billion in nominal GDP for the Ontario
Read More...... … … Editor’s Note: It’s unclear if Joe Biden has a clear idea about anything, but he certainly doesn’t understand energy or anything about how it’s produced. In his debate with President Trump on October 22, Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden said he would rid the nation of oil and gas—“over time, over
Read More...Automakers are the latest to be named to a growing list of major industries, companies and groups who activists claim apparently knew about climate change individually but hid that information from the public. Yes, that’s right. First Exxon Knew, then Shell knew, then the utilities knew. But this begs the question, if “everyone knew” then
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) PA DEP hassles Mariner East 2 pipeline project over Snitz Creek spill of what amounts to harmless kitty litter. Once again the Mariner East 2 pipeline project is up Snitz Creek…without a paddle? There have been a number of “inadvertent returns” or mud spills in Snitz Creek, place where
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