Mariner East Protest Was A Phony Baloney Stupid Political Trick

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  A Mariner East protest held the other day was a phony baloney stupid leftist political trick that only got traction within the fractivist echo chamber. Pick an issue, take an empty Capitol Building, organize a couple dozen of the usual suspect serial protestors, give them preprinted signs, coordinate

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PG&E California Blackouts – Do They Portend Our Energy Future?

Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC PG&E California blackouts, intentional, tell us so much about what is wrong with that state’s energy policies and those planned for us by anti-gas folks. Pacific Gas and Electric provided its customers in northern California with a glimpse of the future last week. Due to extremely dry conditions coupled with the

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That Fracking Childhood Cancer Scare: What We Aren’t Being Told

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  When the Guardian published a screed advancing a childhood cancer scare we weren’t told the full story about the Department of Health’s findings. Yesterday, I wrote about the Guardian‘s scandalous attempt to label Washington County as a “cancer alley.” I say scandalous because it was all husk and no

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Fake Fractivist News: The Bane of Progress and Sustainability

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  The Guardian has published a piece of fake fractivist news intended to undermine the tremendous benefits the Shell cracker is bringing to Pennsylvania. The Guardian, a UK journal that has fallen on hard times and now depends on donations to survive, has published an article in its US edition

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If Windmills Are Clean and Green, Why Are They Blowing Up A Storm?

Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. ….   Andrew Cuomo’s push for more windmills Upstate is blowing up a storm of controversy as locals say they don’t want them and are fighting back, town by town. Politics don’t start with the President and work their way down to us. No, real politics

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New York DEC Denies Reality with Constitution Pipeline Filing

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW        New York DEC has filed a challenge to FERC’s approval of the Constitution Pipeline. It has to read to be believed as the agency simply denies every reality. It was inevitable New York DEC would contest FERC’s approval of the Constitution Pipeline. Governor Corruptocrat tells the agency what to

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Ocean City Demonstrates Off-Shore Wind Is No Easy Sell

 ... … … Green new dealers always make it sound as if their projects face no obstacles, have no impacts and are widely desired but Ocean City shows that’s not true. The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) approved two offshore wind projects off the coast of Ocean City in 2017. But, Ocean City officials want

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Courts Treat PennEast Fairly: PovertyKeeper Freaks Out

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) PennEast Pipeline is working its way through the usual morass of enviro lawsuits and the courts are treating it fairly, which is annoying the PovertyKeeper. It’s hard to keep track of the multiple lawsuits filed against every single new natural gas pipeline project in the Marcellus/Utica. But we try!

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Penn Future and Friends Launch Political Attack on Southeast PA Reps

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW        A “strategic ally” of Penn Future, supported by two private foundations, has launched a dirty political attack on six Southeast Pennsylvania lawmakers. Conservation Voters of PA just engaged in some very dirty politics, targeting six Republican lawmakers in Southeast PA, who they want to replace with Democrats, with a

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – October 5, 2019

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. Disingenuous Daylin Leach Proposes PA Fracking Ban I’ve met Senator Pennsylvania Senator Daylin Leach. Indeed, I have testified

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Dakota Access Pipeline Vandals Indicted by Federal Grand Jury!

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW        Ruby Montoya and Jessica Reznicek have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for Dakota Access Pipeline vandalism. It’s about time the Fed gloves came off. Two years ago I wrote about these two Dakota Access Pipeline vandals, noting they were stooges for a radical group known as Rising

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Capitalism Is What Really Worries Global Warmists and Fractivists

Robert P. MurphySenior Economist, Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, Consulting by RPM … …  Capitalism, and revulsion to it, is at the heart of the opposition to oil and gas development by today’s global warmists and fractivists. They’re wrong. Presumably bolstered by the fiery claims of Greta Thunberg and the general theme of Climate Week, people

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Ban Fracking? What in the World Are Democrats Thinking?

John J. IntervalProfessional Petroleum Geologist.   John J. Interval challenges Democrat Presidential candidates on their reckless “ban fracking” positions using some key facts and a lot of common sense. Three of the leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination want to ban fracking in the United States. Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Kamala

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Gutless DRBC Commissioners Bows Down to Delaware PovertyKeeper

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) The DRBC Commissioners, in a stunning display of cowardice and obsequious attention to direction from William Penn Foundation shills, reconsiders a decision. There, now that’s the DRBC (Delaware River Basin Commission) we know and expect –obsequiously bowing before the likes of THE Delaware Riverkeeper and her environmental cousin, the Sierra

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NaturalGasNOW Wants You! For Our Nation, Economy and Environment!

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  NaturalGasNOW wants your help. It takes much effort to do what we do and we want your help to get it done “for our nation, our economy and our environment.” Yes, just like Uncle Sam, we want you! We want you as a guest blogger. We want your comments.

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