CEPP Will Cost Utilities $16 Billion and Accomplish Nothing

CEPP … …[Editor’s Note: The Clean Energy Performance Program or CEPP is yet another green energy hustle and will contribute little or nothing in the way of clean energy; just a con.] The Clean Energy Performance Program, or CEPP, would provide subsidy payments to electric utilities that increase their share of electricity generated from “clean” sources,

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Clean Energy Exploitation Is Hurting the Most Vulnerable

Ron SteinFounder, PTS Advance … … [Editor’s Note: Ron Stein and Todd Royal are authors of”Clean Energy Exploitations,” a book to help citizens understand environmental and human abuses behind “clean energy.”] The newly released book “Clean Energy Exploitations” helps citizens attain a better understanding that just for the opportunity to generate intermittent electricity dependent on

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Green Jobs Are A Myth: A Myth Intended to Distract Attention

Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … [Editor’s Note: Duggan Flanakin has uncovered the clever myths and phony math of the “green jobs” con artistry. He completely lays it out here.] “Fool me once,” Stephen King wrote, “shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times,

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Clean Energy Doesn’t Happen Without Natural Gas!

Clean Energy Doesn’t Happen Without Natural Gas! Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Clean energy is, to a large extent, in the eye of the beholder, but one thing is surely clear; natural gas is critical to any of it. As a new administration takes shape in Washington, D.C. we enter a period of

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CLCPA Warning: Wind Power Economics Seem Wacky

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … Andrew Cuomo’s c legislation seems to rely upon some really wacky wind power economics that don’t accord with reality. A summary description of two reports prepared by Gordon Hughes, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, Wind Power Economics – Rhetoric and Reality for the Renewable Energy

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AREGCBA Likely to Create More NY Refugees: Climate Refugees

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … AREGCBA is nothing short of a climate refugee creator, the environmental impact from the wind turbines and solar panels will be staggering. This post summarizes the comments I submitted on the draft regulations proposed by the New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting to implement the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth

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Shell starts its new ‘era’ raising dividends

Royal Dutch Shell said Thursday it is starting a new era of dividend growth, as it announced a portfolio reshape to meet cleaner energy needs, Kallanish Energy reports. The supermajor decided to raise its dividend by 4% to 16.65 cents in the third quarter and annually thereafter. In April, it had slashed the payout by

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“Clean Energy Awards” Don’t Matter Near As Much As Fracking

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

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Solar Panel Waste Is A Very Real Issue Few Are Willing to Address

Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … Solar panel waste is a rapidly growing problem that is being ignored by supposedly “clean energy” advocates but some eyes are opening. The problem of solar panel waste is now becoming evident. As environmental journalist Emily Folk admits in Renewable Energy Magazine, “when

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – August 29, 2020

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. Will California Blackouts Lead to A Pennsylvania Wipeout? Dan Markind raises this interesting question in one of his latest pieces for

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Gibraltar opens LNG terminal

Gibraltar on Monday opened a liquefied natural gas regasification terminal, moving the British territory away from diesel-fuel power, Kallanish Energy reports. The project comes as part of Gibraltar’s effort to power its homes and businesses with cleaner energy. The 80-megawatt power plant was built by Anglo-Dutch giant Shell and its fully owned subsidiary Gasnor, which is also

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Some Clear Energy Common Sense on “Clean Energy”

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

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