WSJ “News” on Green Energy Is Pure Puffery Compared to Editorial

Roger DonwayContributor, MasterResource … …  [Editor’s Note: Roger Downey focuses on a problem long known to careful readers of the Wall Street Journal or WSJ; its news pages are shallow claptrap when it comes to “green energy.”] Noam Chomsky, MIT’s famously anti-American professor of linguistics, used to say to his audiences something like: All my

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DEP Called Out by Environmental Hearing Board for Jumping the Gun

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board has called out DEP for hasty action in ordering a reroute of the Mariner East pipeline. It’s nice to see Pennsylvania DEP “hoist with his own petard.” Yes, very nice, indeed. That’s what just happened with a decision by the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing

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Benefit Cost Analysis: The Real Deal Is Coming to EPA

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The EPA has enacted regulations that now ensure real, honest to goodness, cost benefit analysis will be done in clean air rulemaking. Benefit cost analysis has been a preceding feature of more and more governmental action in recent years, but it’s been a mess as the EPA, not

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CO2 Levels Aren’t Necessarily Bad News, But Saying So Is

David KreutzerSenior Economist at Institute for Energy Research … …  [Editor’s Note: CO2 levels are panned and hyped as dangerous air pollution, but there’s another side to that argument; there is good news being ignored.] The quote above comes from one of Holden Thorp’s weekly editorials in Science, the most prestigious peer-reviewed science journal in the U.S., if

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Wolf Called Out on “Blatant Disregard for the Legislature”

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania’s arrogant but hapless trust-funder Governor is shunting aside the state legislature in his quest to impose RGGI. Our friend Kevin Mooney, a top-notch investigative reporter for The Daily Signal, is out with another excellent piece exposing the petulant policies of our trust-funder governor, Tom Wolf.

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ONE Future Group Gains A New Member: UGI Corporation

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: UGI Corporation has joined “Our Nation’s Energy Future.” otherwise known as ONE Future, which is dedicated to reducing methane emissions.] UGI Corporation, which operates natural gas and electric utilities in Pennsylvania and midstream (pipeline) assets in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, has just become the newest member

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PARSS and Cabot Partner to Provide Tech for Rural Schools

George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. [Editor’s Note: PARSS (the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools) and Cabot are working together to bring technology to rural schools!] Whether in school, learning from home, or participating in a hybrid schooling program, gaps in technology have become more apparent than ever. Rural students

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La La Land Is California Today and New York Tomorrow

Jerry RussellBinghamton Area Landowner [Editor’s Note: Jerry Russell talks about his recent trip to La La Land, otherwise known as California and, sadly, soon to include New York State.] I just spent 3 months working in La La Land, otherwise known as the State of California. I was out there working in support of the

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – December 12, 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. Solicitor General Supports PennEast Lawsuit! PennEast Pipeline, as readers will recall, was the victim of an irrational Third Circuit Court of

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European Green New Deal Is As Phony As It Comes

Tom ReynoldsCo-Founder of Dryden Safe Energy Coalition … … [Editor’s Note: Supposed European Green New Deal successes are at least partly, and probably mostly, attributable to natural gas, a fact largely buried.] The Albany Times-Union and several other newspapers just ran an article titled “EU greenhouse gas emissions down 24% since 1990.” The article also

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Gas Ban Economics 101: A Lesson in Energy Policy and What Not to Do

Kenneth W. CostelloRegulatory Economist/Independent Consultant … … [Editor’s Note: Ken Costello carefully explains why gas bans in nutty places such as Berkeley make absolutely no economic sense whatsoever.] Political attempts to curtail gas supply and demand have met with limited success. Methane rules, drilling restrictions on public land, and opposition to new pipelines have incrementally

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – December 5, 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-Capitalist AOC Sells Shirts toFund the Green New Deal and Herself! Unless this is some stupid political stunt, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for

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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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Tall Pines Forest of Lights Lifts Spirits in A Dark Year

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor’s Note: Tall Pines Players Club in Friendsville creates a Forest of Lights for the Christmas season with a little help from Cabot ticket purchases.] The Tall Pines Forest of Lights is back by popular demand! After becoming one of the leading holiday attractions in Susquehanna

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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Related to Energy Fall in US But Rise in China

 ... … … [Editor’s Note: The U.S. is actually reducing CO2 emissions related to energy as China goes precisely in the opposite direction with increases.] According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions fell in 2019 by 2.6 percent (150 million metric tons). EIA attributes nearly all (96 percent) of this

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