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Dale Howell is Grateful for Natural Gas Development and All Its Benefits

Dale Howell talks about the benefits natural gas development has brought to Susquehanna Co. and his family in Cabot’s Looking Back, Moving Forward series.

Dale Howell lives in Springville, Susquehanna County. He was raised on a farm in nearby Wyoming County and moved back to Susquehanna County to purchase land in Auburn Township. In recent decades, he was watching farms shutting down one after another.

“As farming died, all the little towns died too,”…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 21, 2018 at 1:27am — No Comments

If the Problem Is Environmental Injustice, Natural Gas Is the Solution

Environmental injustice does, in fact, exist. It comes from phony environmental scams the poor and moderate income are forced to subsidize. Gas is the fix.

Serial protester fractivist groups have been on an environmental justice kick recently, running scams intended to undermine energy projects on the basis they would unfairly…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 20, 2018 at 5:54am — No Comments

Appalachia Shale at the Front in the Shale Revolution

The Marcellus and Utica Shale plays, now jointly referenced as the Appalachia shale region, are at the very front lines of the American shale revolution.

The latest “Drilling Productivity Report” issued by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) is mind-blowing for those who might imagine (correctly) the Northeast is a difficult place to do oil…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 19, 2018 at 1:53am — No Comments

The Adam Diaz Success Story: Made Possible by the Shale Revolution

Adam Diaz talks about hard work, job creation and business growth, all thanks to the shale revolution, in Cabot’s Looking Back, Moving Forward series.

Coming from a family known county-wide for its strong work ethic, it’s little surprise that Adam Diaz had the foresight to diversify his assets to not only accommodate the various needs of the natural gas industry but to reinvest those profits into his existing businesses and buy up small companies on the verge…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 18, 2018 at 10:52am — No Comments

The Massive Lobbying of Special Interest Fractivist Foundations



The Institute for Energy Research is assembling invaluable documentation of the massive grass-roots lobbying by special interest fractivist foundations.

We often use this blog to repost important articles authored by our friends at the Institute for Energy Research (IER). They put…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 18, 2018 at 1:50am — No Comments

Silicon Valley “100 Percent Renewable” Myth Is Pure Propaganda

Apple, Google, other Silicon Valley and politically correct corporate types like to say they’re “100 percent renewable” but it’s both myth and propaganda.

Facebook and …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 17, 2018 at 2:42am — No Comments

The Dysfunctional DRBC Has No Idea What It’s Doing

The dysfunctional DRBC hasn’t got a clue. There’s a vacuum of leadership that has let it drift under the control of demagogic politicians and fractivists.

Talk about a dysfunctional mess.

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), a governmental organization remote-controlled by Big Green special interests, doesn’t even know how to communicate with another governmental organization; the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

Earlier this…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 14, 2018 at 4:13am — No Comments

No More Feel Good Solar Games; Let’s Get Moving on Gas

Vic Furman makes some poignant observations about the feel good solar games going on in Broome County and other parts of New York. It’s time to get real.

Broome County, like much of New York, has been playing some very stupid solar games, which I wrote about …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 14, 2018 at 2:04am — No Comments

Range Resources Explains PA Natural Gas Impact Fees

Range Resources recently posted an informative new video on YouTube explaining the impact fee, Pennsylvania’s tax on natural gas producers.

Range Resources has been drilling Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale since 2014. They drilled their first successful well, called the Renz #1, in Washington County. As an energy producer in Pennsylvania, Range, as well as other producers, pay…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 13, 2018 at 7:04am — No Comments

The Politically Orchestrated Junk Science of DRBC Fracking Opponents

DRBC fracking opponents have politically orchestrated the release of junk science intended to gin up public pressure on the Commission to vote for a ban.

Earlier this week, the Manhattan-based Damascus Citizens for Sustainability and other DRBC fracking opponents …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 13, 2018 at 3:53am — No Comments

Solar Panel Waste: Solar Energy Not So Green After All

Discarded solar panels are ending up in landfills, instead of being recycled, where toxic solar panel waste is leaking into the ground and water.

Solar photovoltaic panels, whose operating life is 20 to 30 years, lose productivity over time. The International Renewable Energy Agency estimated that there were about 250,000 metric tons of solar panel waste in the world at the end of 2016 and that the figure could reach 78 million metric tons by 2050.…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 13, 2018 at 2:54am — No Comments

Center for Biological Diversity Does Psychological Warfare for Elites

The Center for Biological Diversity is doing psychological warfare or Psych-Ops on behalf of Tides Foundation elites against the good people of Ohio.

Our good friend Jackie Stewart at Energy In Depth has done some of her best work with a story yesterday on the Center for Biological…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 12, 2018 at 2:57am — No Comments

Recall “Drive Electric Week” and Make Trendy Folks Buy Their Own Cars

“Drive Electric Week” is a feel good exercise for those obsessed with environmental virtue signaling and want to take ratepayers and taxpayers for a ride.

Events on the eve of Drive Electric Week scorched the utopian illusion of “a Prius in every garage.”

On Wednesday, Toyota declared a worldwide recall of 1 million hybrid…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 12, 2018 at 2:10am — No Comments

There’s Still Plenty of Room to Grow Natural Gas and Reduce CO2

Two articles yesterday show just how much more room there is for natural gas to replace coal and oil and reduce our CO2 emissions in the process.

Today In Energy post and …

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 11, 2018 at 3:47am — No Comments

What Trendy Environmentalism Ignores to the Detriment of Mankind

Trendy environmentalism seems to be the order of the day in those parts of the US where rich folks tend to congregate, with no attention to the common good.

It’s official.

A Pennsylvania environmental group funded by the Heinz Endowments to create mischief is copying an initiative spawned in Boulder, Colorado, using a discredited…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 11, 2018 at 1:29am — No Comments

Con Ed May Require New Yorkers to Pay More for Gas When They Need It

Con Ed, the electric utility behometh for the Big Apple and environs is gearing up to ration natural gas by price during periods of peak use. Thank Cuomo.

As a totally corrupt Governor Andrew Cuomo battles against a flaky actress for the Democrat nomination to be the next governor of a dying Empire State, Con Ed is laying the groundwork to address what Cuomo has wrought.

Cuomo imagines the way to reach New Yorkers’ inflated egos and hearts and maybe…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 10, 2018 at 4:07am — No Comments

Otsego County Learns No Natural Gas Means No Jobs

Otsego County faces many issues and among them is the fact no natural gas means no jobs. Trendy fractivists are just fine with that, but others? Not so much.

Lately the antis have been petitioning the Otsego County Legislature to ban gas trucks carrying CNG from Pennsylvania across Otsego County to the Iroquois Pipeline in Manheim, New York.  From there the gas can go to NYC or New England.  

The trucks are…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 8, 2018 at 11:25pm — No Comments

Giant LNG Powered Container Ships Will Cut CO2 and Change Everything

Giant LNG powered container ships carrying 20,000 containers are here and the prospect of more signals an unleashing of the power of the shale revolution.

There’s big stuff happening on the seas. One of our readers just sent me a wonderful story in gCaptain about some giant LNG powered container ships that are now hitting the seas, with…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 8, 2018 at 1:29pm — No Comments

New Jersey Seeks to Realize Green Dreams with Other People’s Money

Emulating corrupt New York, New Jersey is now pursuing green dreams by using other people’s money to subsidize, subsidize and further subsidize a boondoggle.

NJ Spotlight is a fractivist echo chamber. It is funded by the William Penn and Wyncote Foundations, house organs for the Haas family, as well as the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation (Rockefeller family). Other foundations with which they’re allied and/or to whom they donate money (e.g.,…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 7, 2018 at 1:51am — No Comments

Message to Tom Wolf: $6 Million for a Gas Plant on the Delaware, But You Don’t Want Us to Frack?

Tom Wolf is giving Kimberly-Clark $6 million of our money to create a gas power plant on the Delaware but he doesn’t want us to frack anywhere near the Delaware!

In early 2013, the Proctor & Gamble manufacturing plant in Wyoming County (northeastern PA) began generating 100% of its own energy needs thanks to…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on September 6, 2018 at 3:24am — No Comments

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