Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) New York’s plan to eliminate furnaces is a case of going over the edge and plunging into the depths of ideological insanity. Does New York have a fever? This is no joke. It’s not an “Onion” piece where we’re trying to fool you. In June, the New York State
Read More...Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. Milton Friedman was a great gift to those valuing freedom, liberty and economic common sense. He was a superb thinker and his insights on energy invaluable. We celebrated, on July 31st, the 107th anniversary of the birth
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Shifting from coal to natural gas in power plant operations is a key strategy for reducing CO2 emissions and stabilizing the climate, says new study. A new study published in a journal called Nature Climate Change says reducing CO2 emissions via a shift from coal to natural gas
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Childhood cancer shouldn’t be a political plaything but the Heinz Enmdowments is funding a smear campaign against shale, playing the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper has engaged in a months-long smear campaign to imply the shale industry in southwestern PA is guilty of causing a “cluster” of rare childhood
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Leisure class environmentalists are the bane of true environmentalism or, as I prefer to call it, conservation. It is nothing but selfish NIMBYism. I first became aware of leisure class environmentalists many years ago, not long after I won an “Environmentalist of the Year” award from a local
Read More...Ron StametsVice-President, Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens (UDRBC)“More Than A River” … … Representative Ullman, who lives way downriver, speculates fracking is a threat to the Delaware and is determined to make landowners pay for her speculation. On May 29, 2019, Representative Wendy Ullman wrote an opinion piece that pretty much parroted the misleading talking
Read More...Madison WeaverCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … Gas drilling today is a story of innovation and companies such as Cabot Oil and Gas have been growing their expertise every day for many years now. “It has been such an amazing journey to watch this program develop and to be proud of what
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Pipeline vandalism is both criminal and dangerous but apologists for it want us to believe it’s only protest and their right; that they’re victims. Shame! The EnviroPolitics blog included a headline yesterday that should infuriate anyone with the slightest respect for the law. “Protest a pipeline in these
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Out-of-town protesters are the workhorses of the pipeline opposition. Financed by billionaires, they destroy and disrupt, leaving behind their dirt. A fellow by the name of Matt Cordio, who is President of Skills Pipeline, a technology talent-solutions company, and the founder of Startup Milwaukee, recently wrote an outstanding
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Energy realities are the proper tools of rebuttal for cleaning up the green slime generated by crackpot and frackpot utopians with ideas that can’t work. Mark Mills is one of those experts at the Manhattan Institute who are so darned good at confront fantasy with facts. I previously
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … A Lake Erie wind project demonstrates the sheer futility of so much of green political correctness as time and money are wasted on a really dumb project. Our friends at Master Resource posted an interesting article the other day about a project with a weird name I’d never
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Pipelines supporters from affected North Carolina communities have had enough of environmental activists and political elites standing in their way. Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), a $7 billion, 600-mile pipeline that will stretch from West Virginia into North Carolina, is facing an existential threat by leftist environmentalists. The project is
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Batteries not included applies not to only the new toy you bought but also to the calculated levelized cost of renewables. The true cost is astronomical. A fascinating article by Roger Andrews at Energy Matters gets into a matter of the highest importance when it comes to renewables.
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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. Oreos Deal Anything But Black and White The manufacturer of Oreos says it’s cut a deal to buy
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Delaware PovertyKeeper attempts to tie up the shale gas industry in litigation continue apace, but also continuing are losses in Commonwealth Court. Remember Middlesex Township, Butler County, where the Delaware PovertyKeeper, ignoring its charter, hopped 200+ miles beyond the Delaware to fight natural gas development in Western Pennsylvania?
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