Think About Energy Brings on House Republican Whip Steve Scalise!

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … The Think About Energy series ups its game by inviting House Republican whip Steve Scalise to take your energy questions. Think About Energy is kicking it up a notch with House Republican Whip Steve Scalise as one of the panel members tomorrow for the latest briefing. Scalise, Congressman

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RGGI Propaganda Plays the Race Card with Pennsylvanians

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: RGGI propaganda disseminated by Pennsylvania’s DEP and the gentry class shills at StateImpactPA unabashedly plays the race card.] When you see the words “environmental justice,” that’s just another way of saying racist–or the new shorthand “woke.” Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to participate in the Regional Greenhouse

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Natural Gas Keeps Electricity Cheap and Plentiful in Pennsylvania

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Natural gas fired generation of electricity has been a huge win for Pennsylvania thanks to Marcellus Shale development. An article yesterday at Today In Energy reveals an important but seldom appreciated fact about about natural gas; that an electricity generating facility using it can achieve capacity factors of

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CNX Makes Healthy Communities Investment of $30 Million

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  CNX Resources, led by the incomparable Nick Deiuliis, is investing $30 million in creating healthy communities in Western Pennsylvania. CNX Resources unapologetically advocates for the middle class in a very real way. Here’s an explanation of what CNX is doing via a news release from yesterday: Far too

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PJM Grid Subject to Texas Style Blackouts If We Go Too Green

Gordon TombSenior Fellow, Commonwealth Foundation .. …. [Editor’s Note: The PJM grid is at great risk. It is threatened by the green virtue signaling of politicians such as Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf.] With Green New Dealers running Washington, D.C., and Gov. Tom Wolf pushing so-called green energy from Harrisburg, questions must be asked about the development

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Carbon County Rises to Defend Its Rights from the DRBC

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Carbon County, Pennsylvania, apparently knows a rat when it sees one and is going to defend itself from a takeover of the ship.] Carbon County, PA is the latest county to join in and support Pennsylvania’s Republican State Senators suing the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) over

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Work begins to plug 12 more abandoned oil and gas wells in Pa.

Work is beginning to plug 12 more abandoned oil and gas wells in the Cornplanter State Forest in Forest County, Pennsylvania, according to the state departments of Conservation and Natural Resources and Environmental Protection. Plugging the Harmony Township wells, some of which are believed to date back to the 1920s, marks the first phase of

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Big Green Swamps the System with Special Interest Money

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is out with more data exposing the Big Green special interest political influence machine. IER has assembled a great tool with which to investigate and report the nature of the Big Green swamp that is filled with special interest beasts eager to

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Deiuliis Launches Academy to Help Lift Up Western Pennsylvania

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Nick Deiuliis , of CNX fame, has launched an Academy to assist potential future leaders of Western Pennsylvania in growing. America today is full of corporatists—capitalists gone astray—who no longer believe in capitalism or the virtues on which it depends. They’ve turned. instead, to milking government for all

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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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Pa. Supreme Court decides consumer protection law can’t be used to sue oil and gas companies over leases

In a recent decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided the state attorney general’s office can’t invoke the state’s consumer protection law to sue Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. on behalf of landowners who claim they didn’t get fair deals in leasing their mineral rights, according to Penn Live. The high court concluded only buyers

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – March 6, 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. Yeah, Natural Gas Is the Good Deed Always Punished Interesting that entire countries believe natural gas use reduces carbon, while radical

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Why PA Gov. Wolf’s RGGI Carbon Tax Needs Legislative Approval

Whether or not you agree with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s idiotic plan to join something called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a carbon tax that will force PA residents to pay $2.36 billion in higher electric costs over a 10-year period (and shut down coal and gas-fired power plants), there is one thing we

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Property Rights Are Our Mission at the UDRBC! Help Us!

Ned LangPresident, Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens …. ….  [Editor’s Note: Ned Lang, President of Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens, appeals for help in fighting for our natural gas and property rights!] The UDRBC was formed to advocate for the property rights of landowners across the Upper Delaware River region.  The actions of the Delaware

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