- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 25, 2019
Energy Dominance Era Is Here for Real in America
... … … Make no mistake. The era of real American energy dominance has finally arrived thanks to the ingenuity and industriousness of our oil and gas sector.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 24, 2019
New York CCPA Is All Hat and No Cattle, Empty Green Virtue Signaling
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The New York CCPA (Climate and Community Protection Act) is a cruel joke, simply empty green virtue signaling, as an analysis by Manhattan Institute shows.Shale Gas News – June 22, 2019
Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about virtual pipelines, New York electric rates, LOLA Energy and much more last week.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 23, 2019
Take Notice DRBC: “Sue Me” Approach to the Takings Clause Is Untenable.
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The U.S. Supreme Court has issued an opinion making it easier to go to Federal court for relief under the Takings Clause.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 22, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 22, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 21, 2019
Union of Concerned Scientists’ Climate Liability Survey Findings Based on Flawed Methodology
Activists are out with a new survey that claims nearly half of Americans believe energy companies should be forced to pay for climate change-related damages.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 21, 2019
Climate Costs Report is Just Another Rockefeller-Funded Climate Litigation Campaign Tactic
A new report by the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) calculating the costs of adapting to sea level rise is little more than a poorly masked public relations endeavor, seeking to fuel the campaign pressuring cities across the United States into pursuing litigation against energy companies.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 21, 2019
Natural Gas Consumption Increases 5% As Emissions Grow by Only 2%
... … … Natural gas consumption grew by 5% in 2018 with economic growth, but emissions only grew only 2%, showing how gas, by changing the energy mix is a big win.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 21, 2019
New Jersey Dismisses RGGI Reality for Political Correctness
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … New Jersey is joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) for the sake of political correctness.Multi-State Health Analysis Exposes Flaws of Fracking Health Studies
The Colorado Department of Public and Environment and Pennsylvania Department of Health recently teamed up to analyze studies claiming to link health impacts to oil and natural gas development.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
Climate Liability Campaigners Target Honolulu After Striking Out in Florida
The list of cities, states and counties suing energy companies continues to grow, as trial attorneys after hefty contingency fees continue their search for their next client.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
Why Did CNBC Go to Fractivists to Trash Marcellus Shale Revolution?
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … CNBC recently did a special on America’s energy revolution and inexplicably went to credibility challenged fractivists for balance, trashing Marcellus Shale.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
EDGE Virtual Pipeline Company Produces and Delivers Its First LNG
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The EDGE virtual pipeline company has produced and delivered its first Marcellus Shale LNG shipment.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
Energize PA Will Help Distribute More Natural Gas for Use Here at Home
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Energize PA will enable more natural gas use in the very communities, mostly rural, where it is produced, adding still another benefit from its production.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
Colorado Enviros, Activists Split On Oil & Natural Gas Rulemaking Process
Mainstream environmental groups are working alongside Colorado’s oil and natural gas industry to turn the sweeping regulatory overhaul known as SB 181 into an effective, efficient workable law.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
U.S. Oil & Natural Gas Industry Has Caused a “Tectonic Change” in Energy Markets
Following a “tectonic change” in global energy markets over the past decade from the shale revolution, “there is a bright future for natural gas,” according to American Gas Association President and CEO Karen Harbert.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
As for Fractivist Politicians, Watch What They Do, Not What They Say
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … There’s an awful lot of green pandering and talk these days by fractivist politicians, but watch what they do, not what they say.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
Want to See Something Really Scary? John Michael Greer Serves It Up
Michael Lynch President, Strategic Energy and Economic Researchand Master Resource Contributor … . .. John Michael Greer, like other modern-day Malthusian crackpots, is making a living scare-mongering but his facts don’t add up and his theories are nonsense.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
Solar Sales Pitch Goes Awry for Politically Correct Millennial
Victor Furman Upstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman relates his experience dealing with a solar sales pitch from a naive millennial who simply bought into “green energy” before thinking it through.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2019
Unilateral Energy Disarmament Is No Security Strategy for the U.S.
Daniel B. Markind, Esq. Flaster Greenberg PC The folly of the unilateral energy disarmament being practiced on the West Coast and in New England shows the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2019
Impact Fee (Tax) Has Huge Impact on Pennsylvania’s Rural Counties
Haley CitroneCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … The Marcellus Shale Impact Fee has been a highly innovative and effective version of a severance tax.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 17, 2019
Denver Trendies Stick It to Everyone in Rural Colorado with ZEV Mandate
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) The great divide in America these days is urban vs.Shale Gas News – June 15, 2019
Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about how fracking saves lives, U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 16, 2019
Is There An Alternative to Plastic Straw Virtue Signaling? Yes, There Is.
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … I’ve had it with plastic straw virtue signaling that has no basis in either fact or morals and simply reflects the self-righteousness of the pseudo-enviros.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 16, 2019
Energize PA Pipe Investment Program Would Reinvigorate Rural PA
Johnny Williams Bradford County Writer Johnny Williams reports on the Energize PA bill now before the Pennsylvania legislature and which would help further reinvigorating rural Pennsylvania.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 15, 2019
National Grid Northeast 80 by 50 Pathway Isn’t Going to Appease Radicals
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … National Grid has developed a “Northeast 80 by 50 Pathway” apparently hoping to appease radicals who want no part of natural gas, but it’s not going to work.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 15, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 15, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 14, 2019
Judge in Exxon Case to NY AG: Stop Stalling
New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James’s case Martin Act case against ExxonMobil is still in pre-trial hearings, but Justice Barry Ostrager is already losing patience.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 14, 2019
“Keep It In The Ground” Activists Going All Out to Block Federal Leasing
“Keep It In the Ground” activist groups have added a self-proclaimed “sophisticated” effort to their misinformation campaign to stop oil and natural gas leasing on federal lands.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 14, 2019
BP: In Case There Was Any Doubt, the U.S. Shale Revolution Is Alive and Kicking
The United States shattered the previous record for the largest single-year increase in oil and natural gas production in 2018, according to BP’s annual Statistical Review of World Energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 14, 2019
Delaware County Plays Politics with Pennsylvania Pipeline Infrastructure
Kurt Knaus SpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Delaware County, Pennsylvania, is playing politics with pipeline infrastructure critical to the economic future of the region and the Commonwealth as a whole.Double-Dealing DRBC Shows All Its Cards
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The double-dealing DRBC just showed the world what it’s all about; rewarding the lower valley with development while proposing to stop it entirely upriver.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 13, 2019
Climate Activists Attack Oil Company for Supporting Seatbelts and Wildlife Conservation
Climate activists Naomi Oreskes and Geoffrey Supran took to Twitter Wednesday, posting links to a new cache of Mobil documents that they hoped would help expand their #ExxonKnew campaign to include #MobilKnew.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 13, 2019
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Developer Intends to Fight and Win!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The developer of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Dominion Energy, says it’s just begun to fight and intends to win and win soon in its bid to complete it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2019
Tunkhannock Students Raise Trout in the Classroom
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … A group of students at Tunkhannock High School got hands on with Trout in the Classroom; hatching, caring for and releasing trout fingerlings.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2019
Replacing Coal with Gas Is the Only Way to Catch Up in Reducing CO2
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Replacing coal with shale gas has allowed the U.S. to reduce CO2 emissions more than anyone else and for the world to catch up more of this must be done.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2019
Obama-Era EPA Head Doesn’t Believe U.S. Can Both Create Jobs and Protect the Environment
Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy complained to Congress this week that the current EPA is doing too much to propel economic growth and boost job creation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 11, 2019
Baltimore Climate Lawsuit to be Appealed, Highlighting Litigation Campaign’s Shortcomings
A federal judge’s recent decision in the City of Baltimore’s lawsuit against energy companies is demonstrating how climate litigation can drag on, diverting attention and resources away from making changes that would improve the city’s environment and address climate change concerns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 11, 2019
Rep. Fritz: Growth and Opportunities of the Natural Gas Industry
Connie Mellin Natural Gas NOW“PAShaleAdvocate” Rep. Fritz will hold a press conference to highlight the positive impact the natural gas industry has in Pennsylvania and how to continue the trend.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 11, 2019
Zero Emissions Claims Don’t Pan Out for Electric Vehicles
... … … Zero emissions claims are popular these days but they seldom pan out, as is the case with electric vehicles in Germany.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 11, 2019
Pipeline Opponents Are Letting the Nonexistent Crowd Out the Great
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Pipeline opponents are some of the most irrational people.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2019
Shale Development is Driving America’s Oil and Natural Gas Dominance
Horizontally drilled wells now account for 96 percent of U.S. oil production from shale formations, as well as about 97 percent of shale gas production – up from 15 percent and 14 percent, respectively, in 2004 – according to a report from the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2019
Bloomberg Misses Completely On Natural Gas While “Shooting For the Moon” With Beyond Carbon Campaign
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced that he is “shooting for the moon” and spending $500 million “to close every coal-fired power plant in the United States and halt the growth of natural gas,” through a Beyond Carbon campaign led by the Sierra Club.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2019
Report: The United States Will Be the World’s Top LNG Exporter in the Next Five Years
The United States – currently the third largest exporter of liquefied natural gas – will surpass Australia and Qatar to become the world’s largest exporter of LNG within five years, according to a recent International Energy Agency report.DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini Gets Snarky Over Lobbying Assertion
Betty Sutliff Wayne County LandownerUDRBC Secretary DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini didn’t like being called out for lobbying the Pennsylvania legislature in opposition to Jonathan Fritz’s H.B.Shale Gas News – June 8, 2019
Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about LNG exports, NJ pipeline denial, natural gas demand and much more last week.Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 8, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 7, 2019
Tourism Grows with Shale Development in Ohio
A growing trend of oil and gas industry visitors is sparking increased tourism offerings in Belmont County, Ohio, according to local officials.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 7, 2019
The New York Green New Deal – Where’s the Plan? There Is No Plan.
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The New York Green New Deal is a proposal without a plan; rhetoric wrapped in political promises that have no substance because there is no nothing there.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 7, 2019
Proved Reserves: Why They Grow Despite Fears of Running Out
Madison WeaverCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … Proved reserves of natural gas and other natural resources grow with technology, a point modern Malthusians such as fractivists never quite seem to grasp.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 6, 2019
“Keep It In the Ground” Vandalism Creates Safety Issues, Prompts New Federal Pipeline Legislation
“Keep It In the Ground” activists have zeroed in on pipeline infrastructure in recent years for activities that risk danger to people and the environment while causing costly construction delays.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 6, 2019
Speaker Turzai Says Gov. Wolf’s “Restore PA” Plan More Likely to Destroy PA
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Pennsylvania House Speaker Turzai provides a comprehensive statement on Restore PA, Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to put a severance tax on the natural gas industry.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 6, 2019
Electric Transmission by Train? A Mobile Option for Gas Fired Electricity?
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Electric transmission by train may be coming soon if Alternative Transmission Inc.’s plan to move stored electricity by containers rail cars is accepted.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 5, 2019
Activists Demonize Natural Gas While Cheering Its Clean-Air Benefits
Environmental activists who have cheered the ongoing power transition in the United Kingdom — which went a record 18 days and 6 hours of powering its electric grid without using coal — are overlooking an inconvenient fact for their cause.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 5, 2019
Natural Gas Fired Electric Generation in Pennsylvania Growing Steadily
Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … Natural gas fired electric generation in Pennsylvania and clean air are on a roll thanks to the shale revolution and big increases in natural gas production.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 5, 2019
LIUNA Lambasts Democrats Selling Out to Elitist Enviros
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … LIUNA, the Laborers’ International Union of North America, just messaged New York Democrats; “stop taking us for granted to cater to elitist enviros.” I try to avoid doing Democrat versus Republican here.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 4, 2019
“Keep It In the Ground” Activists Push More Myths Regarding Natural Gas
The activists at Oil Change International said they wanted to dispel what they call the “myth” that American natural gas is a solution to climate concerns in their latest report on our clean energy future.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 4, 2019
Lisa Baker’s Eminent Domain Bill Recommended by Committee!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Lisa Baker’s eminent domain bill, the one that started it all last session, just got reported out by the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 4, 2019