Report: Natural Gas Pivotal To the Energy Transition and a Lower Carbon Future

Natural gas is a critical component for maintaining American industrial competitiveness during the energy transition, according to an American Chemistry Council white paper published last month. Natural Gas Supports Industry Growth and Competitiveness Natural gas continues to be an economic lifeblood for variety of major industries due to its versatility, abundance and low cost. The

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Galicia Goofs Up As Foz Fights Becoming A Windy City

Galicia Goofs Up As Foz Fights Becoming A Windy City David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: Galicia mandates a power plant that has to be five times the normal size required for reliability because it will also be required to use only wind for energy. There are so many

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Renewable Energy Propaganda from CNBC Fails Smell Test!

Renewable Energy Propaganda from CNBC Fails Smell Test! David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: CNBC is hardly a reliable truth teller but, as David Blackmon notes, its story this week on renewable energy offers more distortions than a fun house mirror. It would take a good 5,000 words to

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks – October 8, 2022

Natural Gas Now Best Picks – October 8, 2022 Tom Shepstone Shepstone 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. This week; the search for Unobtainium, our Army warms and tanks go electric. Look for these

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CO2 Emission Reduction Has A Downside and It’s Huge!

CO2 Emission Reduction Has A Downside and It’s Huge! Craig D. Idso Founder/CEO, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change Contributor, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: CO2 emission reduction isn’t cost-free or harmless. Rather, it has downside implications for food production, health and the environment. It is a

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Climate “Scientist” Goes Wild and Glues Himself to Bank

Climate “Scientist” Goes Wild and Glues Himself to Bank! Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: Climate “scientist” Peter Kalmus, part of NASA and the IPCC effort to build the case for a green eggs and scam ripoff and a socialist

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CLCPA Is Slow Motion Train Wreck for New York Energy Future

CLCPA Roger Caiazza (on the subject of)Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York   … [Editor’s Note: “Vested interests have had their say, and public relations have taken precedence over engineering and economics” but CLCPA “winging it” cannot and will not work.] At the September 13, 2021 meeting of New York’s Climate Leadership and Community

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GHG Emissions Intensity by Cabot Reduced 58% Last Year

George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas … .. [Editor’s Note: Cabot Oil and Gas is reducing GHG emissions intensity by an astounding 58% in 2020 compared to 2019 — a huge achievement that says so much!] When you’re a natural gas operator, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG emissions) are top of mind. Identifying areas of

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Peaking Plants Policy Is Trending Toward Peak Nonsense

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Peaking plants used in New York City are now in the gun sights of climate fanatics but shutting them all down is foolhardy nonsense.] On January 11, 2021 the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Power (CLCPA) Generation Advisory Panel met as part

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RGGI Proceeds, Not the Results, Seem to Be Goal

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: RGGI proceeds for pet Cuomo causes, rather than greenhouse gas reductions, seems to be the primary purpose of the entire program.] The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is likely to generate over $149 million in fiscal year 2021-2022 for New York State investments to support

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Climate Plan Pushed by Cuomo Will Yield Impacts Too Small to Measure

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act will achieve nothing of measurable significance regarding global warming.] On July 18, 2019 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), which establishes targets for decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing renewable

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Deep Decarbonization or Deep Do-Do for New Yorkers?

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Deep decarbonization is, supposedly, the goal and political will is the means but it all sounds like more like “deep do-do” for New Yorkers.] On December 8, 2020, the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the New York State

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Emissions Data and Science Being Totally Distorted by New York DEC

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Andrew Cuomo’s DEC is distorting and manipulating greenhouse gas emissions data to fit its goals and objectives, abandoning science.] In late October 2020 I submitted personal comments on the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) proposed Part 496 that defined the emissions limits for

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Pa moving ahead with power plant emission caps

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is working to bring the state into a regional consortium of states that sets a price and caps on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, part of the Democrat’s agenda to fight climate change, Kallanish Energy reports. Wolf made a formal announcement Thursday that he’s ordering a start to the

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San Jose moves to ban natural gas in new residential buildings

The U.S.’s 10th most populous U.S. city Tuesday moved to ban natural gas in most new residential buildings, beginning next year, Kallanish Energy reports. The 10-member San Jose, California, city council and Mayor Sam Liccardo voted unanimously to make San Jose the largest U.S. city so far to seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by

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