Tom ReynoldsCo-Founder of Dryden Safe Energy Coalition … … [Editor’s Note: Supposed European Green New Deal successes are at least partly, and probably mostly, attributable to natural gas, a fact largely buried.] The Albany Times-Union and several other newspapers just ran an article titled “EU greenhouse gas emissions down 24% since 1990.” The article also
Read More...Kenneth W. CostelloRegulatory Economist/Independent Consultant … … [Editor’s Note: Ken Costello carefully explains why gas bans in nutty places such as Berkeley make absolutely no economic sense whatsoever.] Political attempts to curtail gas supply and demand have met with limited success. Methane rules, drilling restrictions on public land, and opposition to new pipelines have incrementally
Read More...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. Anti-Capitalist AOC Sells Shirts toFund the Green New Deal and Herself! Unless this is some stupid political stunt, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … Andrew Cuomo’s c legislation seems to rely upon some really wacky wind power economics that don’t accord with reality. A summary description of two reports prepared by Gordon Hughes, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, Wind Power Economics – Rhetoric and Reality for the Renewable Energy
Read More...... … … [Editor’s Note: The U.S. is actually reducing CO2 emissions related to energy as China goes precisely in the opposite direction with increases.] According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions fell in 2019 by 2.6 percent (150 million metric tons). EIA attributes nearly all (96 percent) of this
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Michael Shellenberger is the author of Apocalypse Never, a wonderful takedown of green eggs and scam schemes and schemers. Michael Shellenberger is a thinking environmentalist, an all too uncommon sort of individual in the environmental movement these days. Unlike me, he is a political progressive, with an office
Read More...Gregory WrightstoneGeologist and author of “Inconvenient Facts” .. … [Editor’s Note: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is pushing a new carbon tax called RGGI onto homeowners and businesses by using fear and misinformation.] Pennsylvania’s Democrat governor, Tom Wolf, sows fear with misinformation about climate change to advance plans to add the Commonwealth to the Regional Greenhouse Gas
Read More...... … … [Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson has banned fracking and aims to force Brits into the electric vehicle they can’t afford, which means pushing them into cities.] British Prime Minister Boris Johnson banned the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2030 in order to accomplish his carbon-free mandate by 2050. A recent study,
Read More...... … … [Editor’s Note: China let its virus loose upon the world and is now using it to build energy reserves, while pretending to be a renewables leader.] China is considered a developing country for purposes of the Paris Accord and certain trade treatments, despite it being the second largest economy in the world.
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Great news! New technology in the form of software promises to help identify sources of methane leaks and continue their reduction.] Researchers with the Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico continue to make big oil and gas industry breakthroughs. Two weeks
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Net-Zero New England is the goal and natural gas is the solution according to Obama’s former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz’s team. A very interesting study just came out from a group founded by former Obama Administration Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz. The group is The Energy Futures Initiative,
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … AREGCBA is nothing short of a climate refugee creator, the environmental impact from the wind turbines and solar panels will be staggering. This post summarizes the comments I submitted on the draft regulations proposed by the New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting to implement the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth
Read More...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. Warren Buffet Funds Fractivists: It’s All About His Money This is nothing new as we explained here, here and here, but
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Energy-related CO2 emissions have declined yet again, according to the EIA, and natural gas used for electricity is still the primary reason. It’s getting to be old news now, but the continued decline of energy-related CO2 emissions as electricity is increasingly generated by natural gas continues. It’s a
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf has his nose up in the air again as tells Pennsylvanians RGGI and a 50% increase in electric rates will be good for them!] Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and his Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) continue to push a plan that will raise Pennsylvania residents’
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