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.

Understanding New York and New England Fractivism

If you really want to understand what motivates the opposition of wealthy New Yorkers and Bay Staters to fracking and absolutely essential pipeline development in a region ever more dependent on natural gas, it’s worth reading this article about what’s happening with California housing.

The gentry class has several reasons to oppose natural gas development, including hedge fund investments in “green energy,” protecting land scams designed create private preserves around their own holdings and assuaging of their trust-funder guilt, but keeping out the rabble may be the biggest:

http://naturalgasnow.org/natural-gas-now-picks-week-april-28-2018/