Pipeline Opponents Are Letting the Nonexistent Crowd Out the Great

Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers)      Pipeline opponents are some of the most irrational people. They’ve talked some agencies into going well beyond letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. When it comes to pipeline opponents, all too often it’s not a case of “letting the perfect crowd

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DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini Gets Snarky Over Lobbying Assertion

Betty SutliffWayne County LandownerUDRBC Secretary   DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini didn’t like being called out for lobbying the Pennsylvania legislature in opposition to Jonathan Fritz’s H.B. 827. On June 6, 2019, several members of the Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens attended the Upper Delaware Council (UDC) meeting in Narrowsburg.  DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini

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New Jersey DEP Under Murphy Steals Cuomo Flea Flicker Play on NESE

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) New Jersey DEP under Phil Panderbear Murphy is a clone of Andrew Cuomo’s DEC and has just stolen the latter’s flea-flicker play in the NESE pipeline game. On May 15 New York’s Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC), under the direction of leftist Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, denied a permit

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Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 8, 2019

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. Natural Gas Is the Future  for Electricity The numbers keep stacking up: Across the U.S., gas could supply

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The New York Green New Deal – Where’s the Plan? There Is No Plan.

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The New York Green New Deal is a proposal without a plan; rhetoric wrapped in political promises that have no substance because there is no nothing there. My biggest problem with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Green New Deal proposal to achieve 70 percent renewable energy

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NY DEC Asks Federal Court to Overturn FERC Approval of NY Pipe

Last August the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a decision overruling the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to allow National Fuel Gas Company’s Northern Access Pipeline project to proceed (see Big News: FERC Overrules NY DEC to Approve Northern Access Pipe). The DEC subsequently asked FERC to reconsider the decision. FERC did,

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NY Post Editorial Explodes Cuomo Renewables Delusion

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … NY Post readers were treated to the one of the best editorials it has yet to write on the subject of energy. It demolishes Cuomo’s renewables delusion. The NY Post has neatly summarized the immense problems with Andrew Cuomo’s renewables delusion. Indeed, I have to wonder if some

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DEC Forced Into Corner on Power Plant Permits by Cuomo Games

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) DEC, which Andrew Cuomo controls in its entirety, is under court order to process the already operating CPV Valley Energy Center’s air quality permits. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to stop a fully built, brand new natural gas-fired electric generating plant in Orange County from going operational last

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Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 1, 2019

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. New York Is the Biggest Loser As Wealth Leaves the Empire State Andrew Cuomo, New York’s follower in

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H.B. 827 Draws Phony Attack from Delaware Riverkeeper Stooge?

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  H.B. 827, Rep Jonathan Fritz’s bill to compensate DRBC landowners for their huge losses from the taking that would result from a fracking ban, is attacked. Former English teacher and now Rep. Wendy Ullman is from Bucks County, Pennsylvania where the average household income in 2017 was $108,848 compared

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NY DEC Releases Draft Air Permits for Orange Cnty Gas-Fired Plant

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to stop a fully built, brand new natural gas-fired electric generating plant in Orange County from going operational last year by instructing his Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to deny renewing an air permit it had approved just five years earlier (see Cuomo Strikes Again: Blocks Completed Gas-Fired Plant

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Northeast Gas Shortages Are the Issue; The One Issue That Matters

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  Northeast gas shortages are what really matter when it comes to fighting back against fracking bans, pipeline obstruction and other fractivist initiatives. There is no doubt the Northeast (everything east from Pennsylvania) is at war over natural gas. Fractivists have been able to successfully demagogue the issue in places

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Fractivist Governor Cuomo Takes Two Bites Out of the Big Apple

Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers)      Fractivist Governor Cuomo tales two big bites of the Big Apple that continues to elect this corrupt, wannabe Empire State Emperor rather than just Governor. Following the denial of yet another pipeline permit in New York state, National Grid—the nation’s second largest utility—has stopped

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Drill A Gas Well, Bring Home A Soldier: How It Came to Be

Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. ….   Vic Furman tells how “Drill A Gas Well, Bring Home A Soldier” became the slogan of Upstate NY landowners and explains why it’s important this Memorial Day. It was 2009. Three of us, Bryant LaTourette, Sue Dorsey and I were riding home together in

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Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – May 18, 2019

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Our 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. No New Natural Gas for Westchester Until 2023, Huh? And, this was prior to Andrew Cuomo denying water quality certification

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