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. This week’s selection of Natural Gas Now picks begins and ends with climate issues; how to not to
Read More...Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) EV subsidies are disgusting because they principally benefit well-off trendy folks who can well afford electric vehicles without help from ordinary taxpayers. When will EV proponents learn that attempting to manipulate consumer choice (and the free market) doesn’t end well? If California and Colorado
Read More...Holding company PG&E Corp., operating under bankruptcy court protection, said the board of its Pacific Gas and Electric Co. unit (also in bankruptcy), has appointed Andrew M. Vesey CEO and president, effective Aug. 19. He will report to PG&E Corp. CEO and president Bill Johnson, Kallanish Energy reports. In his role, Vesey will have responsibility
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … A new natural gas record was recently set for use of this energy source in producing electric power that sustains our way of living in this nation, says EIA. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) put out a fascinating article last week that should make the hair go up on
Read More...Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. Michael Moore, the radical movie guy who has made millions attacking capitalism, has turned against renewables, realizing they’re mostly a hedge-fund scam. Michael Moore’s new documentary on renewable energy, Planet of the Humans, has put the alternative-energy lobby
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...... … … 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...California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (Pg&e) knew power lines in Northern California could fail and cause wildfires, but the company delayed repairs for years before a 2018 blaze that killed 85 people, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. The utility identified parts that needed repair on its transmission lines to prevent “structure failure resulting (in) conductor
Read More...Ron StametsVice-President, Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens (UDRBC)“More Than A River” … … Representative Ullman, who lives way downriver, speculates fracking is a threat to the Delaware and is determined to make landowners pay for her speculation. On May 29, 2019, Representative Wendy Ullman wrote an opinion piece that pretty much parroted the misleading talking
Read More...The share of U.S. total utility-scale electricity generation from natural gas-fired power plants will rise from 35% in 2018, to 38% in 2019, and then decline slightly in 2020, according to the latest Steo, Short-Term Energy Outlook, produced by the Energy Information Administration. EIA/Steo forecasts the share of U.S. generation from coal will average 24%
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...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Energy realities are the proper tools of rebuttal for cleaning up the green slime generated by crackpot and frackpot utopians with ideas that can’t work. Mark Mills is one of those experts at the Manhattan Institute who are so darned good at confront fantasy with facts. I previously
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … A Lake Erie wind project demonstrates the sheer futility of so much of green political correctness as time and money are wasted on a really dumb project. Our friends at Master Resource posted an interesting article the other day about a project with a weird name I’d never
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Batteries not included applies not to only the new toy you bought but also to the calculated levelized cost of renewables. The true cost is astronomical. A fascinating article by Roger Andrews at Energy Matters gets into a matter of the highest importance when it comes to renewables.
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