Environmental Justice for Whom? Pennsylvania Goes PC! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. [Editor’s Note: Environmental justice is a completely phony concept that does precisely nothing for the intended beneficiaries and, in fact, only makes it harder to help them.] Government is nothing if not faddish; that is to say vulnerable to those
Read More...China, Having Bought Out Biden, Is Playing Climate with Us! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. [Editor’s Note: China can be beaten at everything but, with compromised Joe Biden in charge, the Chinese Communist Party is implying playing stupid climates games with America.] If you do not regularly read JoNova, you are missing
Read More...Blather Here, Blather There, Nothing Between Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. [Editor’s Note: Blather is the state of PR today and it’s a direct result of corporate America falling into a political correctness trap that ends with a copier in the woods.] I recently came across a story some of you may
Read More...Corporatism Is the Disease and Truth and Speech Are the Cures Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Corporatism, the merger of business and government, is rampant today and impacts every aspect of our daily lives. It will only be beaten with truth and speech. Author Joel Klotkin truly gets it. Writing in his
Read More...Climate Speech Control Not Working and Skepticism Grows! Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: Joe Manchin is driving Democrats nuts. Democrat climate crusaders who hoped to grift and grow power from it are angered by Machin worrying about inflation.] The
Read More...Climate Speech Control Not Working and Skepticism Grows! Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: The left wants us to sit down and shut up. It hates climate debate and wants to claim the mantle of science strictly for itself as
Read More...Chinese Communists Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Totalitarianism has arrived and free speech is being erased by the actions of an unholy alliance of news organizations and a corrupt government and plutocracy. Whoever thought it would get this bad this quickly? Sunday morning we learned Southwest Airlines pilots had exercised their power not
Read More...China’s Sinopec is said to be ready to push development and investments towards the hydrogen supply chain, seeking leadership in future energy sources, Kallanish Energy reports. The giant oil refiner reportedly said on Thursday, during its earnings call, that it would “reallocate some of our resources all along the hydrogen chain.” The strategy is “a
Read More...Chinese demand for natural gas is expected to grow by 10% year-on-year this winter, as a Covid-19 recovery spurs higher residential and industrial consumption, state oil companies said on Thursday. Presenting at a gas seminar in Beijing, the companies said demand during the 2020/21 peak winter season is estimated at 148 billion cubic meters (Bcm),
Read More...TC Energy on Thursday awarded more than $1.6 billion in contracts to six major American contractors to build more than 800 miles of the now-stalled Keystone XL Pipeline in three states in 2021, Kallanish Energy reports. The six companies will be responsible for hiring more than 7,000 union workers. The companies are Barnard Pipeline of
Read More...Gulfport Energy, a major player in Ohio’s Utica Shale, is expected to file for a Chapter 11 reorganization in the coming days, Kallanish Energy has learned. The company, its revolver lenders and unsecured bondholders are expected to seek approval for a restructuring support agreement that includes debtor-in-possession financing. The Oklahoma-based company is dealing with about
Read More...Europe’s electric vehicles (EVs) market share is set to treble this year to 10%, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Kallanish Energy reports. According to a new analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E), that’s because of the EU 2020/21 car CO2 emission standards. The legislation forces carmakers to meet targets to reduce the average emissions of the
Read More...Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras may have to start a new bidding process for the lease of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in Bahia, Kallanish Energy reports. The company said late last week it opened bids from three companies: bp, Compass Gas e Energia and Golar Power. Only one commercial proposal was received,
Read More...Vietnam has given ExxonMobil the green lights to proceed with the massive LNG-to-power project, estimated to cost $5.09 billion, Kallanish Energy reports. The northern port city said last week authorities have approved the development, which includes power plants and an import terminal. The statement follows on a previous welcome statement by the Vietnamese government in
Read More...National oil companies (NOC) are less prepared for the energy transition than their counterparts in the private sector, which increases their credit risks, Moody’s said Monday. According to a new report by Moody’s Investors Services, the energy transition poses varying degrees of credit risk to the world’s largest NOCs. Those in oil importing countries, where
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