Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 30, 2022

Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 30, 2022 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: Come on Man, Elites Can’t Be Snobs If Anyone Can Just Buy A Car!

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – May 15, 2021

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. Biden Team Diving Headfirst Into Energy Sheol If you wanted any finer example of the Biden team’s preference for leftist political

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – April 17, 2021

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. You Can Just Hear the Fractivist Screams… We just know already how this will be received don’t we? It takes away

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – March 6, 2021

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. Yeah, Natural Gas Is the Good Deed Always Punished Interesting that entire countries believe natural gas use reduces carbon, while radical

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Reason vs. Imagination: The War Among Us That Never Ends

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Reason has exacted its price in Aspen, Colorado, with a recent Earth First attack on the city’s gas lines, depriving trendy folks of heat. One of my all-time favorite books is “Pascal’s Pensées” and this, for me, is the best part; an honest explanation of why reason so

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Study Finds “Significant Fiscal and Economic Losses” for Western States Under a Federal Lands Fracking Ban

A fracking ban on federal lands like the one advocated by the Biden presidential campaign would severely harm the economies of eight western states, according to a new study by the Wyoming Energy Authority. The report’s author, University of Wyoming Professor Tim Considine, came to a grim conclusion: “Over all this study finds that there

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – October 31, 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. Anti-Fracking Crusade Running Out of Gas? Dan Markind does an election overview with respect to states where fracking has been an

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Colorado Emissions Roadmap Acknowledges Crucial Role Of Oil & Natural Gas

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,

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COGCC Aims for “Collaboration” and “Certainty” for Colorado’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry

The newly reorganized Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission is striving to successfully implement new industry regulations and seeking collaboration with stakeholders to provide a renewed sense of certainty for energy production in the state, according to COGCC’s commissioners during the 32nd Annual Energy Summit hosted by the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA), held

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Setbacks Are But A Fractivist Weapon When It Comes Oil and Gas

 ... … … [Editor Comment: Fractivists in Colorado and other states are using setbacks as a weapon to try to destroy the oil and gas industry and there is nothing fair about them.] The ballot proposal to undercut Colorado’s status as a major oil and natural gas producer is back. Well, sort of. Two years

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CU Boulder Audit Reveals Activist Researcher’s Misconduct. Will Elected Officials Keep Defending Him?

Air quality researcher Detlev Helmig could face civil and criminal prosecution for mixing funding slated for university research with his personal business pursuits, according to an audit recently released by his former employer, the University of Colorado Boulder. As the Boulder Daily Camera reports: “An audit of former University of Colorado Boulder researcher Detlev Helmig

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Study: Background Sources, Not Oil and Gas, Main Contributors To Colorado Methane Emissions

Colorado’s methane emissions are coming from background sources in areas far from the state’s oil and natural production, according to a report recently published by the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. The report also finds that agriculture and wetlands are contributing significantly to emissions. The Payne Institute report utilized

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Air Quality Investigation Again Shows No Health Risks Near Colorado School

An investigation conducted by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has once again shown that the air quality is safe around a local school in Greeley and nearby oil and natural gas wellsite. The Denver Post reported on CDPHE’s findings from its third round of air sampling at that location: “An investigation into

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