Apocalypse Never – The Confessions of A Thinking Environmentalist

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Michael Shellenberger is the author of Apocalypse Never, a wonderful takedown of green eggs and scam schemes and schemers. Michael Shellenberger is a thinking environmentalist, an all too uncommon sort of individual in the environmental movement these days. Unlike me, he is a political progressive, with an office

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RGGI Being Promoted with Climate Misinformation and Scare Tactics

Gregory WrightstoneGeologist and author of “Inconvenient Facts” .. … [Editor’s Note: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is pushing a new carbon tax called RGGI onto homeowners and businesses by using fear and misinformation.] Pennsylvania’s Democrat governor, Tom Wolf, sows fear with misinformation about climate change to advance plans to add the Commonwealth to the Regional Greenhouse Gas

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Electric Vehicle Mandate in UK Really About Controlling All of Us

 ... … … [Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson has banned fracking and aims to force Brits into the electric vehicle they can’t afford, which means pushing them into cities.] British Prime Minister Boris Johnson banned the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2030 in order to accomplish his carbon-free mandate by 2050. A recent study,

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Weymouth Compressor Station Good to Go Says PHMSA

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Enbridge’s Weymouth Compressor Station has been evaluated by PHMSA and found to be safe for renewing its critical operation.] Enbridge’s Weymouth compressor station project, the final piece of the $452 million Atlantic Bridge expansion project, last week received permission from the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – November 28, 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. Using Solar to Help Power Natural Gas Compressor Stations! Well, this is certainly interesting; a classy gas industry response to renewables:

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China Does Renewables Head Fake: Builds Energy Reserves with WuFlu

 ... … … [Editor’s Note: China let its virus loose upon the world and is now using it to build energy reserves, while pretending to be a renewables leader.] China is considered a developing country for purposes of the Paris Accord and certain trade treatments, despite it being the second largest economy in the world.

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Methane Leaks Getting Sniffed Out with New Software!

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Great news! New technology in the form of software promises to help identify sources of methane leaks and continue their reduction.] Researchers with the Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico continue to make big oil and gas industry breakthroughs. Two weeks

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GAOA, Funded by Oil and Gas, Is A Conservationist’s Dream!

Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) and, specifically, the Land & Water Conservation Fund are possible due to oil and gas revenue. To the surprise of most Americans, and the consternation of many in the “mainstream” media, Vice President Mike Pence highlighted the

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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 21, 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 Tree-Sitting Pipeline Opponents Be Dragged Down? Two and half years after we ran a contest here about how to best

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Net-Zero New England Only Possible with Natural Gas!

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Net-Zero New England is the goal and natural gas is the solution according to Obama’s former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz’s team. A very interesting study just came out from a group founded by former Obama Administration Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz. The group is The Energy Futures Initiative,

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Hunters Sharing the Harvest Off and Running Again to Serve Others

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … Hunters Sharing the Harvest is, yet again, geared up to serve the poor with donated venison from a great program supported by the gas industry. In our ongoing efforts to help address food insecurity in the Commonwealth, we recently donated $5,000 to Hunters Sharing the Harvest (HSH). For

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Foreign Policy Can’t Be Left in the Hands of Governors

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Foreign policy belongs in the hands of the President, not governors captured by the demands of fractivists and other special interests. Our friend Dan Markind has a great post up at Forbes that i encourage all readers to check out. It’s about pipelines and the abuse of the

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Laterals Just Keep Getting Longer, As Gas Footprints Shrink

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Laterals just keep getting longer as drilling moves out underground and stays confined to a small well pad on the surface.] Deep Well Services (DWS), headquartered in Butler County, PA, is living up to the company name. DWS is one of our favorite oilfield services companies, born

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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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