Smack Down! In a superb tag-team performance, both President Trump and federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler this week hit New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, hard, over his refusal to allow fracking and for blocking the Constitution Pipeline. It’s smack down time! This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Bob Howarth, long forgotten by most, returns with yet another pseudo-science study attacking natural gas development based on totally bizarre methane claims. I participated in a debate with Bob Howarth at Cornell several years ago. His star was already starting to fade then and he later mostly dropped from
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … National Grid doesn’t seem to fit the New York model. It is not surrendering to political correctness and pandering to the governor. It is fighting back. That New York’s brain is infected with green political correctness that amounts to energy insanity is beyond doubt. The state government under the
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Northern Access Pipeline developer NFG has received another denial of water quality certification from Andrew Cuomo’s DEC but the project will get built. Once again, the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC), a corrupt political tool in the hands of an autocratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, has issued a
Read More...... … … Offshore wind projects along the East Coast are being regularly challenged successfully on environmental impact grounds, especially by fishermen. In Massachusetts and New York, fisherman seem to be winning small victories against offshore wind farms. The Edgartown Conservation Commission in Massachusetts denied an underwater cable route off the town’s coastline, citing the potential
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) New York’s plan to eliminate furnaces is a case of going over the edge and plunging into the depths of ideological insanity. Does New York have a fever? This is no joke. It’s not an “Onion” piece where we’re trying to fool you. In June, the New York State
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … DRBC water dependence claims have ranged from 15 to 22 million people over the years but the real number was always much lower and the DRBC has admitted it. When the Delaware River Basin Commission was formed in 1961, the legislators creating it said this about dependence on
Read More...... … … If you live in New York State you can expect more power outages thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandering attempts to curry favor with green energy scammers. New York’s Con Ed has had two major power outages within a two-week period—and the power outages probably will continue given the state’s new policies
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Leisure class environmentalists are the bane of true environmentalism or, as I prefer to call it, conservation. It is nothing but selfish NIMBYism. I first became aware of leisure class environmentalists many years ago, not long after I won an “Environmentalist of the Year” award from a local
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Toby Rice, the young, hard-charging guy who just won a war to take over EQT, the nation’s largest natural gas producer, wanted to drill in the DRBC region. Toby Rice is set to become the new CEO of the largest natural gas producer in the United States. He’s
Read More...New York State is so screwed. Let’s just be honest–there’s no saving the Empire State now. (We can say these things because we live here.) Following the passage of a recent law (see New York Pulls the Trigger, Commits Energy Suicide with New Law), businesses and residents are beginning to move out of the state.
Read More...Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. “Norwich solar farm will benefit everyone” the pitch goes, but Vic Furman has a different view. It’s just more of the same energy con game he says. Yesterday, a post showed up on Facebook announcing a 76 acre 56,000 panel solar farm in Norwich,
Read More...Richard DowneyUnatego Area Landowners Association Climateers, Richard Downey says, are not being truthful when they pretend anything other than natural gas is going to address what they say needs to happen. Adrian Kuzminski’s June 13/14 column “If Facts Can’t Defuse Deniers, What Can?” opens with the passage from the New Testament where Pontius Pilate asks
Read More...Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman relates his experience dealing with a solar sales pitch from a naive millennial who simply bought into “green energy” before thinking it through. About a week ago a friend told me he was visited at his home by a person who opened
Read More...New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James’s case Martin Act case against ExxonMobil is still in pre-trial hearings, but Justice Barry Ostrager is already losing patience. On Monday, at an initial hearing to discuss dismissing five of ExxonMobil’s defenses and other pre-trial motions, Justice Ostrager pushed the AG’s office to whittle down its lengthy witness
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