NaturalGasNOW Passes 5,000 Posts to Fractivist Chagrin!

Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOWContributing Writer   [Editor’s Note: NaturalGasNOW started eight years ago and now has published over 5,000 posts with no factual rebuttal worthy of the term as the shale revolution keeps rolling!] As a frequent reader of NaturalGasNow and an occasional contributor, it’s been fascinating to look at not only the content of some

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Imagination: The Fulcrum of Civil Society and Corruption

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Imagination is the fulcrum on which the delicate balance between the civil society we all want and the corrupted version we despise tips one way or the other. One of the very best books I have ever read, as I noted here, is Pascal’s Pensées, which was never

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The Foundations Behind Green Energy Scams Are Also Ruining America

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Tax-exempt foundations are financing the politics behind green energy scams while also undermining America and its middle class. Anyone who has followed this blog for any length of time knows I have repeatedly emphasized the role of tax-exempt foundations, supposed charities such as the NRDC and the Sea

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Adelphia Gateway Pipeline Gets FERC OK to Finish Construction

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: The Adelphia Gateway Pipeline project to convert an oil pipeline to gas has received FERC permission to complete construction. About time!] New Jersey Resources’ Adelphia Gateway project is a plan to convert an old oil pipeline stretching from Northampton County, Pennsylvania through Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester counties,

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – May 29, 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. What Goes Around Comes Around! Remember the story about Reagan and how the press called him an idiot for saying trees

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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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Newsom Fracking and Oil Ban Will Make California Ever Less Self-Reliant

germany … …[Editor’s Note: There are so, so many awful governors with no moral compass other than political correctness and control. Gavin Newsom is among the worst.] California Governor Gavin Newsom recently ordered state agencies to stop issuing new fracking permits by 2024 and to look for ways to phase out oil extraction by 2045, despite his

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Renewable Fortune Making at the Taxpayer Trough Is Driving Environmentalism

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The potential for renewable fortune making trillions off ratepayers and taxpayers is driving both energy policy and environmentalism. Anyone who has followed this blog at all over the last eight years knows what most people following energy policy and environmentalism today don’t want to know; that it’s really

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DAPL Case Is A Matter of the Rule of Law and Nothing Less

Nicholas Romano Chester County Landowner … … [Editor’s Note: Nick Romano makes the DAPL case clear; it is a matter of whether the rule of law still applies, doesn’t or only applies to the favored few.] Seeking Alpha says “Energy Transfer plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in its ongoing legal battle to

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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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Weymouth Kill Bill Demonstrates Just How Bad Government Has Become

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) A bill introduced by Massachusetts Senator-Demagogues Markey and Warren for the purpose of killing the Weymouth Compressor Station provides a pitch-perfect illustration of how utterly dysfunctional our government has become. Talk about using a sledgehammer to kill a fly. The two U.S. Senators from Massachusetts, Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren and

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – April 4, 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. Nice Win…for Now This is great news. It’s the latest such win. But, the lawyers hired by the Rockefellers won’t be

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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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Irrational Fear of Fracking Has Deprived Upstate New Yorkers of A Future

Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. ….   [Editor’s Note: Corrupt Andrew Cuomo exploited fear of fracking to advance his own future while stealing that of his Southern Tier constituents.] I remember well the power of fear as a child and it’s influence on my upbringing, Perhaps some of you reading this

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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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