Twin Towers Attack Brought Us Together. Why Are We So Far Apart?

Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. ….   The 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers 18 years ago brought us together but now we’re as far apart as ever. Let’s rally around the energy security we now have. I was sitting in the cafeteria having breakfast with others at work when shortly

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The Green Corporatism Behind Most of Fractivism

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  Green corporatism is always in the background when it comes to fractivism and global warming hysteria, as government rent seekers try to mold a crisis mood. Global warming hysteria seems to get worse by the moment. Fractivism is, in many respects, a sub-set of the disease. It’s a refusal

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Where Is Concerned Health Professionals of New York on This?

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  Concerned Health Professionals of New York is a bunch of phonies who couldn’t care less about the health of Upstate New Yorkers when it comes to wind. I reviewed Uni Blake’s takedown of the Concerned Health Professionals of New York’s Sixth edition of the “Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and

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A Tree of Ignorance Grows in Brooklyn, Watered by Political Deceit

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  Brooklyn, New York is apparently growing a new type of voter without the slightest clue how energy is made or delivered and politicians enable the ignorance. Subsequent to my post yesterday about New York politicians running on empty through bad neighborhoods, a friend sent me a Brooklyn story revealing

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Extinction Rebellion Suggests Climate Extremism Has Hit Peak Lunacy

Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers)      Extinction Rebellion is a climate extremist group focused principally on the UK. It suggests such extremism may be reaching peak lunacy levels, though. The surprisingly successful Extinction Rebellion is running a con game on everyone, especially their own followers. Ostensibly the standard bearer of

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New York Politicians Running on Empty and Denying It

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  New York politicians, still imagining they’re living out their energy fantasies, are refusing to accept facts, as if running on empty through a bad neighborhood. How much self-deception can one practice before submitting to the truth? An infinite amount if New York politicians are any gauge. National Grid and

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Tesla Solar Debacle Is Explained by Vanity Fair and Walmart

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  The Tesla solar debacle Is getting a lot of attention from Vanity Fair and a big lawsuit from Walmart. Both make great reading if you’re not Elon Musk. I don’t normally read Vanity Fair and I don’t do a lot of shopping at Walmart, but both these institutions have

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American Oil and Gas Dominate the Global Energy Picture!

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  American oil and gas completely dominated the global energy market in 2018. We’re the king of the hill in oil and in gas with tremendous growth in 2018. Another great article from the  Energy Information Administration (EIA) provides ever more proof green energy scammers have been lying to us.

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Powerful Reality: More Solar Power Means More Air Pollution

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  It is undeniable; adding more solar power to the grid means decreases the environmental performance of baseload energy systems and grow air pollution. A North State Journal article about power generation in North Carolina reveals the problem introduced by too much solar power being added to the grid. Solar

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Howarth Methane Study Ignored Empirical Data Falsifying the Conclusion

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  A Bob Howarth methane study has gotten some traction here and there amongst the uneducated empathetic press but key data falsifying it has been ignored. We have some really knowledgeable readers here at NaturalGasNOW and one of them, who apparently read our Bob Howarth post the other day, sent

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Bob Howarth Seeks Relevance with Still More Pseudo-Science

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  Bob Howarth, long forgotten by most, returns with yet another pseudo-science study attacking natural gas development based on totally bizarre methane claims. I participated in a debate with Bob Howarth at Cornell several years ago. His star was already starting to fade then and he later mostly dropped from

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New Natural Gas Record for Power Generation Set

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  A new natural gas record was recently set for use of this energy source in producing electric power that sustains our way of living in this nation, says EIA. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) put out a fascinating article last week that should make the hair go up on

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Northern Access Pipeline Project Gets Another “Nyet” from Cuomo’s DEC

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Northern Access Pipeline developer NFG has received another denial of water quality certification from Andrew Cuomo’s DEC but the project will get built. Once again, the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC), a corrupt political tool in the hands of an autocratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, has issued a

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Dimock Pigs to Rigs Lawyers Lose Control of Dimock Client?

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Dimock pigs to rigs lawsuit continues to move backward for the attorneys who brought it. Ray Kemble, their supposed client, claims ignorance. Whoa! “Curiouser and curiouser.” Ray Kemble, rough-cut hero, it often seems, of the fractivist movement everywhere but Susquehanna County, is now “basically placing all the

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Offshore Wind Is No Easy Sell and Carries A High Environmental Price

 ... … … Offshore wind projects along the East Coast are being regularly challenged successfully on environmental impact grounds, especially by fishermen. In Massachusetts and New York, fisherman seem to be winning small victories against offshore wind farms. The Edgartown Conservation Commission in Massachusetts denied an underwater cable route off the town’s coastline, citing the potential

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