March 2018 Blog Posts (70)

Tom Wolf: Shale Gas Is Enormous Economic Opportunity (If You Don’t Live in DRB)

Is Tom Wolf really this calloused, this hypocritical, this obtuse? It appears he is. No brags about shale gas and then denies it to one group of citizens.

Yesterday, March 21, 2018, may mark the low point of the Tom Wolf administration in Pennsylvania for residents of Wayne County. Our pampered, two-faced, trust-funder governor took to bragging about Pennsylvania’s shale gas resources. He did so oblivious to the reality of simultaneously denying them to those…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 22, 2018 at 12:41pm — No Comments

Gas Wars No More: Binghamton University Students Engage on Fracking

It was “gas wars no more” at Binghamton University where students engaged in a civil discussion about energy and civil engagement. Vic Furman was there.

This past week, another board member of the Joint Landowners Coalition of NY and I both received an invitation to Binghamton University to speak about our experiences in community civil engagement. We talked with approximately 40…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 22, 2018 at 9:29am — No Comments

The DRBC Power Grab Is Far from Accidental; It’s A Fraud

The DRBC is making the case for its indefensible fracking ban on the basis of a fraudulent claim and a theory of regulation with no equal in power grabs.

The proposed DRBC fracking ban is a power grab. It is an illegal expansion of authority granted to the agency under the Delaware River Compact. The Compact gives the DRBC the power to establish standards for treatment of wastes that might be discharged into the waters of the basin. The DRBC proposes to use…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 21, 2018 at 3:17pm — No Comments

Natural Gas Exports Soar and Now Exceed Imports

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has determined our natural gas exports exceeded imports for the first time in 2017; the shale revolution at work.

The shale revolution just keeps producing miracle victories and this time its this: U.S. natural gas exports now exceed imports and are soaring as our nation does energy and most others do political correctness. The EIA has the the facts and, although they’re not in the business of bragging on them or…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 21, 2018 at 9:16am — No Comments

FERC Commissioner from Pennsylvania Tells New England to Get it Together

A blunt-speaking FERC Commissioner from Pennsylvania called out New Englanders for political correctness on energy and its price.

The RTO Insider recently posted a fascinating article where a FERC Commissioner from Pennsylvania told New England to knock it off and stop importing Russian Gas. FERC…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 20, 2018 at 4:41pm — No Comments

Shale Gas News – March 17, 2018

The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about oil demand, the Rover Pipeline, an Ohio cracker plant and much more last week.

The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH station! Gem 104 helps to solidify the Shale Gas News coverage in an important Marcellus region, PA’s northern tier. The Shale Gas News is now broadcasting in Bradford, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon, Luzerne,…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 20, 2018 at 1:13pm — No Comments

Sorry China: Renewable Energy Isn’t Our Future Energy

The Council on Foreign Relations predicts China will turn to renewable energy as a challenge to the United States. Sorry China, renewables are not the future energy.

Imagine a centrally planned economy out-thinking and out-performing a consumer-driven, free-market one.

That is the prognostication, even hope, of Amy Myers Jaffe, director of the program on Energy and Climate Change at the Council on Foreign Relations, as stated in the current edition…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 20, 2018 at 8:22am — No Comments

Let’s Get Cracking on the Ethane Cracker Plant

Ethane cracker plants will bring endless economic opportunities to our region and now is the time to get them up and running.

The sooner we get ethane crackers up and running in our region, the sooner our state can increase the benefits it sees from the natural gas liquid supplies we have. In West Virginia, most of the resources being developed from our…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 19, 2018 at 10:37am — No Comments

Excuse Me, Those Mineral Rights Aren’t Yours to Play with, Vincent Hughes

Sen. Vincent Hughes, a condescending bought and paid for shill for Philadelphia public employee unions, brings out the best in the Marcellus Shale Coalition.

Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Hughes from Philadelphia is smug, arrogant, and completely wrong about the Marcellus industry–and he enjoys being wrong. Maybe because he’s being paid to be wrong.

At a recent PA Department of Revenue Senate Appropriations Hearing (watch it below),…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 19, 2018 at 8:39am — No Comments

Does the Constitution Pipeline Rehearing Request Have A Chance?

Constitution Pipeline has asked FERC to rehear its argument that NY-DEC waived rights to act on its water quality certification application. Is there hope?

Back in October I wrote here about the very compelling case the Constitution Pipeline made to FERC to decide Andrew Cuomo’s DEC had, buy a combination of delay and deception, effectively waived its right to…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 18, 2018 at 11:14am — No Comments

The Terminator Loses It, Runs His Tank Over Cliff Attacking Oil & Gas

Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Terminator loses it in a bizarre attack on the oil and Gas industry in which he runs his armored tank over the rhetorical cliff.

Declaring “This is no different from the smoking issue,” Arnold Schwarzenegger—the Cigar Aficionadocover…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 18, 2018 at 5:32am — No Comments

A Kodak Moment Showing How to Make Real Environmental Difference in NY

The air in Rochester is about to get a lot cleaner thanks to something New York’s politically governor isn’t about to laud; a Kodak moment for clean skies.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo likes to extol his green credentials passing out billions of other people’s money to his chosen winners among the corporatists such as Elon Musk, but none of that is really making an environmental difference. What has made a tremendous difference is natural gas, which has…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 17, 2018 at 8:48am — No Comments

Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week - March 17, 2018

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.

Why Trial Lawyers Encourage and Fund Fractivism

Wonder why Fractivist Rasputin,…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 17, 2018 at 5:30am — No Comments

If You Want Support for Climate Change Policies, Then Report It Correctly

The news media’s reporting on climate change is always gloom and doom, but as George Ahearn points out, they are basing their reports off junk science.

The biggest myth in American journalism is that climate news is covered as a science when we all know it is covered as a political left or right issue. Since the press has already decided that the matter is scientifically settled, you rarely get any good news, mostly Armageddon.

In fact, most of the…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 16, 2018 at 1:23pm — No Comments

Does the Heinz Endowments Fund Fractivism to Protect Its Own Fracking?

The Heinz Endowments has been funding numerous fractivist causes with the family fortune but is it just buying protection for its own foreign gas projects?

The New York Post carried a story yesterday by Peter Schweitzer who is promoting his new book “…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 16, 2018 at 9:45am — No Comments

Take Our NaturalGasNOW “How to Remove A Tree-Sitter” Contest!

The courts are now entangled in an issue too bizarre to take seriously; how to remove tree-sitter pipeline opponents, so we’re having a contest. Join in!

Our buddy, Jim Willis, has posed an interesting question over at Marcellus Drilling News; how does one legally remove a law-breaking…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 15, 2018 at 3:11pm — No Comments

Percoco Verdict Shows the Fruits of Pay-to-Play Upstate Strategy

The Percoco Verdict, says City Journal’s Bob McManus, shows what happens when the Upstate New York economic strategy is simply picking winners and losers.

There’s an amazingly good article over at City Journal about the Percoco verdict. You won’t find much of anything about the verdict itself or Andrew Cuomo’s “brother” Joe Percoco,…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 15, 2018 at 8:59am — No Comments

Canadian Health Study from Last Year Stands in the Way of a Rolling Stone

A ludicrous “health study” led by fractivists and published in fake news outlet Rolling Stone, is countered by a Canadian health study from last year.

Rolling Stone just published a laughable “health study” conducted by a team of committed fractivists. It’s not a study at all, in fact, but a junk science compendium,…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 14, 2018 at 8:21pm — No Comments

Food & Water Watch Whips Up Hysteria Over Mariner East 2

A recent problem with the Mariner East 2 pipeline—a sinkhole issue in an area typified by sinkholes—has given Food & Water Watch with an excuse for mischief.

A third sinkhole related to Mariner East 2 pipeline work and the uncovering (and subsequent shutdown) of the Mariner East 1 pipeline has some folks in Chester County, PA …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 14, 2018 at 8:58am — No Comments

The Sustainability Bugaboo and the Price of Green Political Correctness

Steven Pinker looks at sustainability and what it cannot be allowed to mean if we value progress. It’s not the green political correctness pushed on us.

Add Steven Pinker to the list of rational thinkers who proclaim we need to stop playing games of green political correctness if we value positive change. Sustainability, as fractivists and other environmental extremists would apply the term, has become a bugaboo preventing us from giving our children a better…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on March 13, 2018 at 2:43pm — No Comments

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