Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – May 1, 2021

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. We Need More CO2, Not Less!. This 23-minute video is from 2015 but extremely relevant today as the U.S. is treating

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RGGI Approach to Reducing Carbon Will Cost New Yorkers $92 Billion!

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: RGGI is no solution to anything. It’s going to cost New Yorkers some $92 Billion, in fact, for nothing more than green virtue signaling.] he New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) report New York’s RGGI-Funded Programs Status Report – Semiannual Report

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Air Pollution Absolutists Are Making An Absolutely Absurd Argument

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Absolutists are almost always the enemy of the good and that applies to air pollution and climate fanaticism. Reason cannot be ignored.] The recently released Fossil Fuel End Game report claims that peaking power plants should be replaced with wind, solar and distributed battery storage

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – April 17, 2021

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. You Can Just Hear the Fractivist Screams… We just know already how this will be received don’t we? It takes away

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CCIA: The Community and Climate Investment Act Climate Pollution Tax

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s Community and Climate Investment Act (CCIA) is unfolding as a financial hit on New Yorkers who will face new carbon taxes.] In the spring of 2021, the New York state Senate introduced the Climate and Community Investment Act (CCIA).  Coming on the heels

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Germany Plays Into Hands of Russia As Result of Its Energiewende

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Germany has, with its Energiewende, completely boxed itself into a corner where the big Russian Bear is able to relentlessly torment it. Our good friend, Dan Markind, has written a superb piece for Forbes that gets at everything that’s been wrong-headed about energy policy in Germany over the

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Offshore Wind Is Off the Charts Political Nonsense

WeSo, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Offshore wind makes no economic or environmental sense whatsoever. It is pure politics intended merely to reward special interests.] The Biden administration has announced plans to vastly expand the use of offshore wind power along the U.S. East Coast. The plan sets a goal of deploying 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind turbines

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – April 4, 2021

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. Nice Win…for Now This is great news. It’s the latest such win. But, the lawyers hired by the Rockefellers won’t be

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Irrational Fear of Fracking Has Deprived Upstate New Yorkers of A Future

Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. ….   [Editor’s Note: Corrupt Andrew Cuomo exploited fear of fracking to advance his own future while stealing that of his Southern Tier constituents.] I remember well the power of fear as a child and it’s influence on my upbringing, Perhaps some of you reading this

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New York Landfill Accepting Pa. Drill Cuttings Plans Expansion

Last summer MDN brought you the news that the Sierra Club lost a lawsuit aimed at blocking a landfill in New York State from accepting oil and gas drill cuttings from Pennsylvania (see Sierra Club Loses Court Case to Block Drill Cuttings in NY Landfill). The C&D Hakes Landfill in Painted Post, NY (near Elmira,

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Environmental Justice? No, Pollution Justice Law Is Just Peak Stupidity!

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s Pollution Justice Act is anything but environmental justice, whatever that is. There’s no justice in it for New Yorkers, in fact.] Just when I think New York politicians cannot do anything more stupid something comes out that proves me wrong.  On

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Delaware Riverkeeper Given Right to Intervene in DRBC Lawsuit by RINO Judge

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: The Delaware Riverkeeper ran to a RINO judge to secure the right to intervene in a DRBC lawsuit. He rolled over and granted it.] Apparently, the staff who run the day-to-day business of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) is incompetent and can’t defend itself. Every time

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An Information Standards and Fact-Checking Advisory Board Nightmare

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Free speech is under furious assault by a merging of media and government establishing information standards for all of us. I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed I was living in the year 2025 and green political correctness had won the day. Everyone was “woke,” as they

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – February 27, 2021

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. The More You Get, the More Costly It Gets! Some more great insights on Texas: On Thursday, Texas Public Policy Foundation

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