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
Read More...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. But Suppose They Don’t Want Solar Projects in Their Backyards? Environmental justice is, quite simply, a fraud perpetrated on the people
Read More...biodiversityTom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. [Editor’s Note: It’s about the land and the species that depend on it, including our. Biodiversity demands we increase energy density to use less land.] Far too much of the campaign against fossil fuels and for renewables such as wind and solar in the name of fighting global
Read More...Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. [Editor’s Note: Electric vehicles are trendy but not very Earth-friendly, affordable or emission-free, for that matter; no, they’re just taxpayer-subsidized virtue signaling.]. Tesla may be synonymous with electric vehicles right now. But within a few years, GM, Volvo and many other manufacturers will be making mostly or
Read More...Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. The incoming Biden Administration is going whole hog with the Green New Deal and it promises to be an unmitigated disaster awaiting. The Biden Administration is using executive orders and regulatory diktats, while the Democrat-controlled House and Senate are legislating by one-vote vice presidential tie breakers. They’re
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Texas made one heck of mistake investing in wind energy but Texas natural gas has come to the rescue of a lot of ERCOT arses. Texas has done so many things right, but it got one big thing wrong went it went whole hog into wind energy. One
Read More...Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. The incoming Biden Administration is going whole hog with the Green New Deal and it promises to be an unmitigated disaster awaiting. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, AOC, the Democrat Party and US environmentalists are committed to making climate change, the Green New Deal, and replacement of fossil
Read More...David Wojick, PhDIndependent Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: Solar and wind get a lot of attention but its gas fired generation that is producing more and more of our electricity in this country.] The subsidies that never die — for wind and solar power — are back. With Christmas coming on the Lame Duck
Read More...Jerry RussellBinghamton Area Landowner [Editor’s Note: Jerry Russell talks about his recent trip to La La Land, otherwise known as California and, sadly, soon to include New York State.] I just spent 3 months working in La La Land, otherwise known as the State of California. I was out there working in support of the
Read More...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. Solicitor General Supports PennEast Lawsuit! PennEast Pipeline, as readers will recall, was the victim of an irrational Third Circuit Court of
Read More...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. Using Solar to Help Power Natural Gas Compressor Stations! Well, this is certainly interesting; a classy gas industry response to renewables:
Read More...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. Warren Buffet Funds Fractivists: It’s All About His Money This is nothing new as we explained here, here and here, but
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Medicine Hat, Alberta, threw a cool $12 million into a solar facility that still cannot compete with natural gas; it’s bitter medicine. This one is a pitch perfect illustration of the foolishness that is the premise green energy can compete with natural gas. It has to do with
Read More...Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. Joe Biden, while denying it, has proposed a Green New Deal that would be nothing less than disastrous for Americans and others. Some 90% of all US wells are now hydraulically fractured. Fracked wells in shale formations open up vast supplies of oil, natural gas and petroleum
Read More...The renewables joint venture between EDF Energy and Total has secured a contract for the development of three solar firms in India, Kallanish Energy reports. Eden Renewables, jointly owned by EDF Renewables and Total Eren, announced last Thursday it had been selected for the three solar photovoltaic (PV) projects for a total of 1.35 gigawatts
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