Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – May 4, 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. Delaware Povertykeeper Denied Again by Supreme Court  Williams beats the Delaware Povertykeeper yet again on the already operating Atlantic

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Is There Something Rotten In Dinniman Country?

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  A troubling pattern of donations to Sen. Andy Dinniman campaigns raises question of whose special interests he’s representing against Mariner East pipelines. Pennsylvania Senator “Absent” Andy Dinniman is a caricature of the classic politician who pompously talks about the people’s interests. But, is that who he’s really representing

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New York City to Face Consequences of Cuomo Pipeline Decision

Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC We’re getting to a decision on the Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) project. A Cuomo pipeline decision will have profound consequences for New York City. While little noticed outside of the energy industry, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is about to make one of the seminal decisions of his tenure. Before

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Andrew Cuomo Proves What A Pathetic Governor He Really Is

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  Andrew Cuomo is clearly trying to position himself to run for President at some point, but his actions show why he’ll never go anywhere outside of New York. Andrew Cuomo is an unusually good demagogue within New York, where city voters dominate and much of the electorate supposes electricity

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Big Green, Inc. – The Sources of the Money Behind Fractivism

 ... … … Fractivism is anything but grassroots. Rather, it is funded and orchestrated Big Green, Inc. and the Institute for Energy Research is documenting it all. Last year, as readers might recall, IER launched Big Green, Inc. to began exposing the under-the-radar funders that underwrite the anti-American energy movement and its anti-fracking ballot measures,

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Natural Gas Is Gaining on Renewables; The Gap Has Never Been Wider

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc.   The supposed inevitability of renewables is a matter of faith with gullible fractivists but the facts show we’re using more natural gas energy than ever. Never surrender to the hype. Facts always serve us better in the long run, although the temptation to accede to the will of crowd

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Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – April 20, 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. “So We Spent $1 Million Per Job?” GreenTechMedia says Tesla is “staring down a 2020 employment deadline in New

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How to Use Natural Gas to Yield Water and Electric with Zero Emissions

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … American ingenuity and new technology now promises to produce both water and electricity from natural gas with zero CO2 emissions. What will fractivists do? Good old American ingenuity has done it again. A company in Oklahoma called Newpoint Gas has, using existing technology, developed a process to produce

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NESE Project Divides Ordinary New Yorkers and Elite Environmentalists

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc.   A video highlighting the support of New York City public housing leaders for the NESE project illustrates the gap between ordinary New Yorkers and elites. Too much of environmentalism is pure elitism. It elevates aesthetics above the needs of ordinary human beings for the basic necessities of human life.

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The Sierra Club Demonstrates It’s Really the Job Suppression Club

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … Few green organizations descend to the level of depravity when it comes to advancing their cause as the Sierra Club, which is really a job suppression club. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Groups like the Sierra Club are jobs killers. When was the last

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Well, This Explains A Lot About Fractivist Energy Ignorance

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc.   The gullibility of so many urban voters on the subject of energy issues, their energy ignorance quotient, never ceases to amaze but it is easily explained. The degree to which urban voters are susceptible to boneheaded ideas about energy, that is to say their energy ignorance quotient, is quite

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What Was West Virginia’s Governor Thinking? Coal?

Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC West Virginia’s Governor vetoed a strong bipartisan supported bill to plug up nearly 4000 abandoned oil and natural gas wells. Why? To support coal?  West Virginia Governor Jim Justice made one of the most curious gubernatorial moves in recent years recently, when he vetoed a bill that would have directed

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Oil & Gas Industry Moves to Innovate Away CO2: What Will Fractivists Do?

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc.   Green energy fans proclaim renewables are necessary to reduce CO2 emissions and will soon replace gas but the oil and gas industry keeps innovating CO2 away. It’s always amusing to read every year how renewables are coming down in price and will soon compete with natural gas, while also

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Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – April 6, 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. FERC Blows Away DEC FERC is firing on Andrew Cuomo’s DEC with the big guns now. It just rejected

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Cuomo’s DEC Goes Wacko, Threatens FERC Over Constitution Pipeline

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … The New York State DEC has obviously been instructed by Andrew Cuomo to keep the game going against the Constitution Pipeline by throwing a Hail Mary pass. The Cuomo-corrupted New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is spitting and sputtering, “warning” the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that if

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