UN Secretary-General António Guterres, climate fraud In August, MDN told you about the latest insane utterances from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who is demanding the world stop using fossil fuel energy immediately (see Head of UN Goes Berserk, Demands World Stop Using Fossil Fuels Now). Guterres was in Tonga falsely claiming that mankind is…
Read More...We read a story published last week that is frightening. It leaves us speechless, and that’s saying something. Just the News is reporting that the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) and several other publications and leftwing groups are behind a project called the “Climate Blueprint for Media Transformation,” which encourages reporters to insert climate change into…
Read More...Scott Rupff Iroquois Gas Transmission is co-owned by subsidiaries of TC Energy Corp. and Berkshire Hathaway Energy. The partnership commenced operations in 1991 and operates a 414-mile interstate natural gas transmission pipeline extending from the U.S.-Canada border, near Waddington, to South Commack, Long Island, New York, and over into Hunts Point, Bronx, New York. Iroquois…
Read More...Renewables Emperor has no clothes Connecticut has the fifth highest electricity rates in the U.S., right behind two of its neighbors, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Only Hawaii and California have higher rates outside of New England. Two different pipeline companies—Iroquois Gas Transmission and Algonquin Gas Transmission—have proposed projects to expand existing pipelines to bring more…
Read More...We happened to come across two articles casting doubt on so-called “green” hydrogen, both from far-left media outlets (Bloomberg and POLITICO). Which kind of surprised us. The left believes hydrogen is the savior that will move the world to net zero carbon emissions and finally drive a stake in the heart of fossil energy. But…
Read More...click for larger version Researchers at the University of Wyoming published a study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology yesterday that addresses resource, environmental, economic, policy, and societal issues related to low-carbon hydrogen production by steam methane reforming with carbon capture and storage in Wyoming and other natural-gas-rich states (like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West…
Read More...Once a month, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) analysts issue the agency’s Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), their best guess about where energy prices and production will go in the next 12 months. What did the October 2024 STEO, issued yesterday, show? EIA’s analysts believe U.S. natural gas production will decline in 2024 while demand…
Read More...The stakes in this November’s election are incredibly high—for the country as a whole and for shale energy everywhere, including here in the Marcellus/Utica. Pennsylvania has been the focus this election season due to the presidential race. However, there is another M-U state, Ohio, where the outcome of a statewide race is also very important:…
Read More...If you live in Pennsylvania, particularly in an urban area, and happen to be black, Asian, or Native American, and you own an Apple product and like to do things outdoors, you can expect a knock on your door by the Democrat anti-shale/global warming squad hoping to recruit you to become a Kamala Harris zombie…
Read More...Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG export facility (Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana) has consistently received small gas deliveries since mid-September from an interconnect with the Texas Eastern Transmission Company (TETCO) pipeline. However, the 2.6 Bcf/d Plaquemines terminal has not yet begun to produce its first LNG. Gas deliveries will increase this fall as commissioning activities ramp up. The…
Read More...In June 2019, a series of explosions and a massive fire occurred at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) Refining Complex (see Massive Explosion, Fire at Philadelphia Refinery). It took firefighters a full day to extinguish the blaze. The fire caused the oil refinery complex to close and lay off over 1,000 workers (see Philly Refinery…
Read More...You know you’re a loser when you can’t even spin the results of your own rigged push poll. The Ohio River Valley Institute (ORVI) is nothing more than a front group, another name for the ultra-left, biased, and virulent anti-fossil fuel Heinz Endowments. ORVI pokes its head up periodically to issue “reports” (i.e., propaganda) bashing…
Read More...Parts of Ohio (like other areas in the northeast) have experienced a moderate drought over the past several months. The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) manages ten lakes and four dry dams in southeastern Ohio for purposes of flood control, recreation, and conservation. One of its biggest customers for water sales is the shale oil…
Read More...U.S. utilities and investors plan to add 133 new natural gas-fired power plants to the nation’s grid, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence data. Duke Energy alone has ten such plants either under construction or planned—all of which will use Marcellus/Utica molecules. In fact, when we look at a map by S&P showing where the…
Read More...According to Reuters, natural gas has supplied a record high of 46% of total power generation since June, according to data from LSEG. Power generators are boosting output from all sources (including unreliable renewables) to meet rising power demand. However, they are using natural gas the most. Most of the grid operators in the U.S….
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