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FERC Says New York State Played Games with Northern Access Pipeline

FERC just told Gov. Corruptocrat and his DEC they lost their chance to deny a water quality certification to the Northern Access Pipeline by playing games.

Earlier this week FERC issued a 61-page decision striking another important blow to New York State’s illicit effort to halt pipeline development. The first blow was when Millennium Pipeline immediately went to war with Governor Corruptocrat the minute it became clear his DEC was merely playing games with…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on August 8, 2018 at 1:45am — No Comments

Side By Side Comparison: The Twin Tiers Are Drastically Different

Stephen Heins shows how the twin tiers can be so different. PA’s natural gas development has spurred the economy, while NY is stagnant due to a fracking ban.

The following side by side comparisons between New York’s Southern Tier and Pennsylvania Northern Tier demonstrates that…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on August 7, 2018 at 8:51am — No Comments

Ireland Banned Fracking But the Shale Revolution Has Risen Up to Meet It

The Irish may, in their desire to appease environmental extremists, have banned fracking but the shale revolution has risen up to meet Ireland anyway.

A few years ago, Ireland, once the home of fierce independents, decided to go the environmental appeasement route and ban fracking. That decision, designed…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on August 7, 2018 at 1:06am — No Comments

Can We Flip Some of Our Trade Deficit with China by Selling It LNG?

It’s no secret we run a trade deficit with China but, we may have found at least a partial solution with LNG. We’re an LNG exporter and they’re the market.

An article by Brian Wang on the website Next Big Future uses some interesting data from the Energy…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on August 6, 2018 at 2:23am — No Comments

Elon Musk: $4.9 Billion in Taxpayer Subsidies and He Wants Still More!

Pretty boy Elon Musk is king of the hustlers, having collected $4.9 billion in taxpayer subsidies for his extravagant schemes and now he wants even more.

Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk has a habit of making products that people don’t want.

They are often too expensive (flights to Mars for $6 million and “a good chance…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on August 5, 2018 at 8:35am — No Comments

PUC Decision Clears Way to Finish Mariner East 2 and Treesitter Is Jailed

A Pennsylvania PUC decision, combined with the well-deserved jailing of radical tree sitter Ellen Gerhart spell the end of the campaign against Mariner East.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) yesterday voted 3-2 to allow construction to resume on the Mariner East 2 and 2x pipelines in West Whiteland Township, Chester County (near Philadelphia), ending a weeks-long stoppage specific only to that area. The shutdown began in May…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on August 5, 2018 at 12:18am — No Comments

U.S. Achieves Biggest CO2 Reduction by Any Nation in the World in 2017

No other nation in the world has accomplished as much as the US in CO2 reduction, thanks to the shale revolution and the avoidance of the renewables trap.

The United States announced its intentions to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement last year, but still reduced its carbon dioxide emissions more than any other country in the world in 2017. In fact, it was the ninth time in this century that the United States has had the largest reductions in carbon…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on August 4, 2018 at 12:52pm — No Comments

Where Will New York and New England Get Their Energy This Winter?

Iran is in the throes of a possible revolution. Venezuela is on the edge of collapse. So are New York and New England thinking about energy sources? Nah.

On Monday, President Trump announced he was prepared to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at any time and any place without preconditions. “I’d meet with anybody,” Trump said. “I believe in meetings”.

As with North Korea, Trump’s about-face confused many. The week before Trump had threatened…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on August 3, 2018 at 2:31am — No Comments

Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Impact Fees Are Up; Don’t Mess with Them!

The impact fees Pennsylvania receives from shale drilling have jumped up a whopping 21% and will be distributed to all counties across the Commonwealth.

We hear Governor Tom Wolf talk about Pennsylvania adopting a severance tax to ensure natural gas producers are paying their fair share. What he fails to say is, natural gas drillers are already paying their fair share through the existing Act 13 impact fee. Since 2012, when the impact fee was enacted, nearly…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on August 2, 2018 at 9:43am — No Comments

Senator Andy Dinniman Uses Taxpayer Dollars to Harass Mariner East

Pennsylvania State Senator Andy Dinniman used taxpayer funds to hire a Delaware Riverkeeper law firm to help him fight the Mariner East before the state PUC.

The Mariner East 2 pipeline project is 98% complete with final reclamation already underway but Andy Dinniman, a State Senator from Southeast Pennsylvania, is pretending he can kill it for the sake of milking votes from NIMBY and special interest constituents. He wants his last ounce of demagogic…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on August 2, 2018 at 2:09am — No Comments

Why Does Geisinger Continue to Advance Fractivist Junk Science?

Turned down for funding by the gas industry, Geisinger continues to seek revenge with junk science studies funded through NIH and its own pet funder.

Geisinger Health Systems has been helping advance one fractivist junk science study after another, the latest being an attempt to implicitly link fracking with depression and…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on August 1, 2018 at 2:56am — No Comments

#BaltimoreKnows? Baltimore Conspires with #ExxonKnew Trial Lawyers

Just one day after a federal judge dismissed the ExxonKnew lawsuits from a few major cities, Baltimore decided its cash-strapped city should give it a go.  

Baltimore is home to the curious. With a rich history of just being plain weird and relishing that weirdness in many fun ways, it is no wonder it is the landmark homestead of Edgar Allan Poe, The Hampdenfest Toilet Bowl Race where racers ride a toilet bowl downhill, the Honfest where people bring back the…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on August 1, 2018 at 2:28am — No Comments

Depletionism: Religion of Fractivists and Other Environmental Extremists

The religion of fractivists and other environmental extremists may be described as depletionism, a new Malthusian creed based on fear and selfishness.

Last week, a group of sustainable population organizations issued a global statement and call to action for World Population Day. According…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on July 31, 2018 at 1:52am — No Comments

The Marcellus Shale: Energy for the Future Right Below Our Feet

Lest we forget, the Marcellus Shale is one magnificent resource for the future and it’s right below our feet; well a mile or more below, actually, but close.

Not all rocks are created equal.

Millions of years ago, a deep basin known as the Appalachian Basin sat where the Marcellus formation is now. Areas that would become Pennsylvania,…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on July 30, 2018 at 2:57am — No Comments

LNG Exports to the EU Are All About Their Freedom and Our Economy

More LNG exports to the EU are coming and they will help ensure the future freedom of Europeans while continuing the revitalization of our rural America.

Bloomberg News put out a wonderful story yesterday over its news service about what’s happening in the world of LNG exports. BusinessMirror carried it. It’s a…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on July 30, 2018 at 2:33am — No Comments

When Will Fractivists Say They’re Sorry?

The Sierra Club has basically apologized for its environmental hysteria about a starving polar bear. When can we expect fractivists to say they’re sorry?

There is an original December 2017 National Geographic magazine story about a gut-wrenching video and narrative of a dying polar bear video, which was the most visited piece in the publication’s history.

After 8 months, the National Geographic and the writer of this piece of…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on July 29, 2018 at 12:28am — No Comments

It Seems there's nothing natural gas can't do!

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.

It seems there’s nothing natural gas can’t do:

Princess Cruises announced plans on Monday for construction of two new cruise ships — larger than ever and powered by liquid natural gas.

The California-based cruise line will add the as-yet unnamed ships in 2023 and 2025 to…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on July 28, 2018 at 1:27am — No Comments

California Energy Dreamin’ Demonstrates Futility and Danger of Fractivism

The Golden State is the breeding ground for the dangerous disease of California energy dreamin’ — a pathological obsession with energy political correctness.

Although this story concerns California, it is a preview of what’s coming to New England. Because of ongoing record-high heat in Cali, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) is telling residents to either “voluntarily” stop using electricity, or DWP is going to cut electricity to different…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on July 27, 2018 at 2:04am — No Comments

The Utopian Electric Vehicle Dream and Elon Musk’s Scheme to Exploit It

The electric vehicle dream, though it typically benefits natural gas, is nothing but utopian foolishness being exploited by big-time hustler Elon Musk.

The utopian goal of getting widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) has become a mainstay of the “Keep It in the Ground” crowd. And, getting taxpayers to foot the bill via subsidies is their favorite mechanism for driving adoption.

Electric vehicle sales are currently propped up by a number of…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on July 27, 2018 at 1:22am — No Comments

DCNR Shale Gas Report Blows Another Hole in DRBC Fracking Ban

A new Pennsylvania DCNR shale gas report re-ups conclusions from four years ago and blows a ship-sinking hole through the DRBC fracking ban justification hull.

Good news is hard to hide, even for Wolf Administration folks committed to supporting the governor’s DRBC fracking ban. A new DCNR shale gas report uses 202 pages to lay out how shale gas development on state lands has been…

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Added by Thomas J Shepstone on July 26, 2018 at 3:33am — No Comments

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