Biden Plan for Offshore Wind Is Wildly Expensive and Wholly Stupid

germany … …[Editor’s Note: Joe Biden, a puppet being manipulated by the worst sort of special interests, is pushing an offshore wind fiasco that will accomplish nothing.] Joe Biden has a plan to reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions in the generating sector. It includes the installation of 30,000 megawatts of new offshore wind capacity

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Industrial Wind Health Issues Aren’t Blowing Away Quickly

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley looks at the subject of industrial wind projects and their impacts on human health, using a Victoria, Australia example] MasterResource has followed the growing issue of negative health effects of industrial wind turbines.

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Wood Pellets Power Europe As Continent Takes A Giant Step Backward

germany … …[Editor’s Note: Europe’s focus on biomass in the form of wood pellets to produce electricity is a step backward on CO2 and shows green energy is anything but.] When most Americans think about “green power” and Europe, they conjure up pictures of wind turbines and solar panels producing emission-free power. The truth, however,

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Big Green Swamps the System with Special Interest Money

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is out with more data exposing the Big Green special interest political influence machine. IER has assembled a great tool with which to investigate and report the nature of the Big Green swamp that is filled with special interest beasts eager to

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Deiuliis Launches Academy to Help Lift Up Western Pennsylvania

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Nick Deiuliis , of CNX fame, has launched an Academy to assist potential future leaders of Western Pennsylvania in growing. America today is full of corporatists—capitalists gone astray—who no longer believe in capitalism or the virtues on which it depends. They’ve turned. instead, to milking government for all

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Global Warming Scare Tactics Are No Substitute for Facts

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley points out, with examples, that global warming is not an existential threat but something to be studied before acting rashly.] “Is there any more single-minded, simple pleasure than viewing with alarm,” asked ecological

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Fossil Fuel Use and Lessons for Today from the Jewish Martyrology!

Attorney Daniel B. MarkindMarcellusShaleUpdate.com … . [Editor’s Note: The following post by our good friend Dan Markind makes some astute political observations about fossil fuel use, energy and the environment from the lessons of Jewish history. I’m pleased to be able to share it with his permission. Dan writes for Forbes and has a great

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Yergin and ‘The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations’

Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Daniel Yergin has written another energy tome and Bob Bradley reviews it with a critical eye, finding it quite good as a whole.] Daniel Yergin’s tomes are fun reading and great cliff notes to the

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – November 14, 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. Warren Buffet Funds Fractivists: It’s All About His Money This is nothing new as we explained here, here and here, but

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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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Boilermakers, CNX Share Stage to Back Fracking, Pipelines and Trump

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Nick DeIuliis, the straight-talk CEO of CNX Resources and Shawn Steffee of Boilermakers Local 154 provide some great insight on energy politics! It’s impossible not to be impressed with Nick DeIuliis, the CEO of CNX Resources. He’s clearly not the typical corporate CEO, hiding behind a wall of

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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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Labor Day Reminder: Fossil Fuels Make Modern Life Possible

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Labor Day is a nice reminder of the dignity of real work, but also the role of fossil fuels in making it all possible and rewarding. Bob Bradley, over at the Master Resource blog, has out together a wonderful collection of images illustrating just how much fossil fuels,

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Abundant Energy Seen as Pennsylvania’s Salvation from Recession

George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas      George Stark discusses a Think About Energy event he moderated and the perspectives of the two state senators and the business leader he interviewed. Two Pennsylvania state senators and the president of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry (PCBI) met virtually on May 28 to

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Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez bill would outlaw fracking by 2025

A bill introduced last week by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) helped craft would ban fracking nationwide by 2025, according to its newly unveiled text. The legislation would immediately prevent federal agencies from issuing federal permits for expanded fracking, new fracking, new pipelines, new natural gas or oil export terminals and other gas and oil infrastructure. A House version

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