Richard DowneyUnatego Area Landowners Association Richard Downey says Upstate New York, and Downstate as well, desperately needs more affordable energy, which means natural gas, not more renewable energy. Oneonta needs natural gas. Supply is not meeting demand in downstate’s Westchester, Brooklyn, and Queens nor in Upstate New York’s Oneonta. The cracks are beginning to show.
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The foolish idea the Indian Point nuclear station can be replaced by a bunch of solar farms offering expensive intermittent energy is exposed as a fraud. Andrew Cuomo has been aching for the longest time to see the Indian Point nuclear station shut down. He browbeat it into agreeing
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Though repeatedly warned, Grant Township let itself be used by the radical CELDF as a tool to trigger a Marxist-type revolution, and is now going to pay. Last month I wrote about how even the anti-gas Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office had identified just how dangerous the Community Environmental Legal Defense
Read More...K.J. RodgersCrownsville, Maryland …. …. K.J. Rodgers writes to Maryland Public Service Commission noting conversions of coal power plants to gas have reduced emissions 13 to 1 versus renewables. The Charles P. Crane Generating Station, a 400 megawatt coal power plant located in Bowleys Quarters, Maryland, 14 miles east of Baltimore was closed in June
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Mark Mathis produces yet another excellent video from the Clear Energy Alliance and dispenses with the “clean energy” myth at the heart of that huge scam. The “clean energy” scam is all about money. It’s really green rent seeking from ratepayers and taxpayers. It uses global warming as an
Read More...Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman was in court Friday for another chapter of the Pigs to Rigs case, where Bill Huston was forced to admit he never saw dumping he claimed he had. Unless the truth is revealed, the lie will live on. I saw that on
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. The facts are the facts: Renewables such as wind and solar get lots of positive press. But last year
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … The Delaware Povertykeeper and other hired gentry class bullies are preparing to fight the Consitution Pipeline again as prospects for FERC approval rise. Anti-fossil fuel radicals are making noises, threatening noises, about how they may react when and if (as seems likely) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Read More...Johnny WilliamsBradford County Writer Johnny Williams digs into a wacky group known as Extinction Rebellion that can’t seem to face the truth: that natural gas lowers carbon emissions. While I anxiously await the breaking of the icy death grip that the cold fingers of Winter has wrapped around Bradford County, I’m left with a
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Senator Mike Lee gives a silly speech illustrating the sheer fantasy of the Green New Deal and nails what it’s all about; virtue signaling by chic elites. I find very little to like about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell but he impressed me this week by scheduling a vote
Read More...Stephen HeinsEnergy Consultant“The Word Merchant” … The American NGO community, financed by the likes of the Rockefeller family, is making difficult for ordinary Canadians, insuring nothing ever gets built. The great Vivian Krause has done a remarkably thorough job of detailing the enormous amount of money flowing from the American NGO community to environmental organizations
Read More...Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) The Con Ed moratorium on new gas connections is creating fallout from the Keep It in the Ground movement that normally supportive New Yorkers don’t like. When Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally banned fracking in New York State in December 2014—which subsequently eliminated 191,800 job
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Rep. Jonathan Fritz’s DRBC Eminent Domain Activity Act has received a bi-partisan recommendation from the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee! The DRBC takings bill, has been reintroduced in the Pennsylvania Senate as SB 305, the “Delaware River Basin Commission Eminent Domain Activity Act.” The same bill was also
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Fractivists grasp at everything to diss the natural gas industry, including safety, but it turns out the industry has an ever improving record on this score. Back in 2014, Scranton Times writer and king of snide, Chris Kelly, attacked the natural gas industry and everything and everyone connected to
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Thanks to Rep. Jonathan Fritz, the PA House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is now also considering the DRBC Eminent Domain Activity Act. As we told our readers last month, Senator Lisa Baker’s DRBC takings bill, has been reintroduced as SB 305, the “Delaware River Basin Commission Eminent Domain
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