Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … Andrew Cuomo’s plans for New York City’s natural gas peaking plants depend on untried and technologically challenging renewables. He’s risking a blackout. On February 28, 2019 the New York State of Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) proposed regulations to lower allowable nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from simple
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. The supposed inevitability of renewables is a matter of faith with gullible fractivists but the facts show we’re using more natural gas energy than ever. Never surrender to the hype. Facts always serve us better in the long run, although the temptation to accede to the will of crowd
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. “So We Spent $1 Million Per Job?” GreenTechMedia says Tesla is “staring down a 2020 employment deadline in New
Colorado’s top air quality regulator took issue with recent media portrayals of the state’s emissions regulations during the Air Quality Control Commission monthly meeting Thursday. During the “Director’s Report” portion of the meeting, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Air Pollution Control Division Head Garry Kaufman offered clarity around a recent Denver Post article
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … American ingenuity and new technology now promises to produce both water and electricity from natural gas with zero CO2 emissions. What will fractivists do? Good old American ingenuity has done it again. A company in Oklahoma called Newpoint Gas has, using existing technology, developed a process to produce
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. A video highlighting the support of New York City public housing leaders for the NESE project illustrates the gap between ordinary New Yorkers and elites. Too much of environmentalism is pure elitism. It elevates aesthetics above the needs of ordinary human beings for the basic necessities of human life.
Liquefied natural gas exporter Tellurian said Thursday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued the order granting authorization for Driftwood LNG, a proposed 27.6 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) liquefaction export facility near Lake Charles, Louisiana. Also authorized was the associated Driftwood pipeline, a 96-mile proposed line delivering natural gas to the facility, Kallanish Energy
Fracking took center stage during a discussion at the recent Annual Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The panel on Wednesday started out more global in scope, but then turned its focus to a region about 1,600 miles away—the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania. As expected for a panel moderated by Boulder
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … Few green organizations descend to the level of depravity when it comes to advancing their cause as the Sierra Club, which is really a job suppression club. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Groups like the Sierra Club are jobs killers. When was the last
More than three-quarters of Americans want to see critical energy infrastructure developed more quickly – a goal of President Trump’s recent executive orders – and just one in five voter supports the so-called Green New Deal, a new report found. A full 79 percent of voters responding to a recent survey support “streamlining or expediting
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. The gullibility of so many urban voters on the subject of energy issues, their energy ignorance quotient, never ceases to amaze but it is easily explained. The degree to which urban voters are susceptible to boneheaded ideas about energy, that is to say their energy ignorance quotient, is quite
Waste and energy development company Brightmark Energy Thursday announced the closing of a $260 million financing package for construction of the nation’s first commercial-scale plastics-to-fuel plant, to be built in Ashley, Indiana. Financing for the project includes $185 million in Indiana green bonds, which were underwritten by Goldman Sachs, Kallanish Energy reports. As part of the
A literature review of studies that have unsuccessfully attempted to show fracking is negatively impacting health is getting some media attention based on its claim that air quality monitoring and modeling may not capture the full picture of oil and gas development impacts. And despite the authors’ best efforts to show otherwise, this compendium simply
Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … When it comes to workforce development, no one has done more than the natural gas industry. Cabot Oil & Gas offers a great example of how much has be done. In Pennsylvania, where Cabot’s operations are located, the oil and gas industry accounts for more than
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. President Donald Trump delivered some great news to pipeliners yesterday with his pipeline executive order, Andrew Cuomo says it’s overreach, so it’s good! The Trump pipeline executive order is here! And, Andrew Cuomo, the king of overreachers, says it’s “gross overreach.” We don’t need to know a lot more,
