Toby Rice, the New Head of EQT, Wanted to Drill Here First

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

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Representative Ullman Gets Strong Response from UDRBC

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

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Holyoke Mayor Goes Full Green with Climate Change Envy, Betrays Cause

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Holyoke Mayor makes green splash to collect pander points with trendy Bay Staters, while betraying the very cause he espouses and denying others what he has. Is there any public official left in Massachusetts without his head up you know where, who can stand on his own two

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Energy Independence: The Fruit of the Shale Revolution

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Energy independence is the result of a shale revolution that is now allowing the United States to produce 90% of its natural gas domestically and export too! Energy independence doesn’t get much clearer than this; 90% of our natural gas is now produced right here in the United

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Norwich Solar Farm Another Snake Oil Pitch at Our Expense

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,

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Energy Realities for Confronting Crackpots and Frackpots

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

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Shale Gas News – July 6, 2019

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about the PA Budget, LNG exports, impact fee distribution and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH

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Lake Erie Wind Project Shows Green Political Correctness Is A Disease

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

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Pipeline Supporters Rally for Atlantic Coast Pipeline Against Enviro Elites

Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Pipelines supporters from affected North Carolina communities have had enough of environmental activists and political elites standing in their way. Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), a $7 billion, 600-mile pipeline that will stretch from West Virginia into North Carolina, is facing an existential threat by leftist environmentalists. The project is

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Batteries Not Included; The True Levelized Cost of Renewables

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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Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – July 6, 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. Oreos Deal Anything But Black and White The manufacturer of Oreos says it’s cut a deal to buy

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Climateers: If You Mean It, You Should Love Natural Gas

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

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The Local Natural Gas Benefits of Local Natural Gas

Madison WeaverCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … Natural gas benefits are many to the environment, our energy security and the economies of both rural and urban areas, but local benefits stand out bigly. Oil and natural gas production doesn’t happen in a bubble; aside from creating new jobs, natural gas production also

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Shale Gas News – June 29, 2019

Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about impact fee distribution, EQT, PPT Cracker Plant and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH station!

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Carbon Dioxide Storage for Oil and Gas, As Renewables Hit Obstacle Wall

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Carbon dioxide storage is a lot closer than fractivists suppose and it will destroy any advantages claimed by renewables as that sector faces big problems. One of our alert readers who spends a lot of time studying these issues sent me three articles that, read together, tell us

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