Cities, Baffled by Fracking, Are Vulnerable to Corruption and Decay
Steve HeinsEnergy Consultant, Business Writer and Practical Environmentalist“The Practical Environmentalist and Word Merchant” … America’s cities are showing ever more signs of corruption and it is spreading throughout the states they dominate, to the detriment of sane energy policy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 25, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 25, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … 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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- January 24, 2020
Delaware Riverkeeper Filing Shows DRBC Was Lying to State Reps
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … The Delaware Riverkeeper has undermined the message DRBC was sending to Pennsylvania state representatives last year.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 24, 2020
Report: Natural Gas Demand Set to Grow, Benefitting Canada
With demand for natural gas set to grow through 2035, North America is well-positioned to be the top LNG exporting region in the world.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 24, 2020
What California Stands to Lose in the Climate Legal Battle
In just a couple of weeks, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments stemming from the two California-based lawsuits where municipalities are suing energy companies for alleged costs associated with combating climate change.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 24, 2020
Three Key Things to Know About Rolling Stone’s Latest Oil, Natural Gas Hit Piece on TENORM
Rolling Stone author Justin Nobel has been spending a lot of time in the Appalachian Basin recently, and not because some of the biggest bands in history will be touring here this year, as one would expect from the music magazine.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 24, 2020
Governor Corruptocrat Sells Out Southern Tier Again with Still More Deceit
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Governor Corruptocrat, a/k/a Andrew Cuomo, is passing out other people’s money in the form of grants for pet projects while proposing to ban fracking.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 23, 2020
Frivolous Lawsuits Threaten Flourishing Texas Energy
Several Texas cities have joined the likes of New York, California, Hawaii and Massachusetts in bringing forth frivolous lawsuits intended to stymie the oil and natural gas industry and prevent energy projects from moving forward.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 23, 2020
The Pillars of Your Climate Rhetoric Are Rotten and Don’t Hold Up
Stephen HeinsEnergy Consultant, Business Writer and Practical Environmentalist“The Word Merchant” … A recent article about reasons people deny global warming are extremist climate rhetoric that simply don’t hold up when they are examined with common sense.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 23, 2020
Philadelphia Gets What It Wished, But Not Exactly; Green Virtue Gone Bad
Kurt Knaus SpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Philadelphia City Council apparently gets its wish, sort of, but loses all the jobs, the green bragging rights and the opportunity to be the next Houston.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 22, 2020
Germany’s Energy Transition Makes Room for American LNG
Germany is in the midst of a seismic energy transition. Already in the process of shuttering all its remaining nuclear reactors by 2022, the government is now officially committed to phasing out all of Germany’s coal-fired power stations by 2038.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 22, 2020
CO2 Emissions Expected to Decline Yet Again. Thank Natural Gas.
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … CO2 emissions are expected by the Energy Information Administration to decline again for the next two years as a result of shifts to natural gas use. Here’s the short but beautiful story from EIA: In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), released on January 14, the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 22, 2020
Energy & Blue Collar Boom: Trump Lays It Out at World Economic Forum
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. President Trump spoke to the World Economic Forum and laid out the facts of our energy and blue collar booms, dispensing with despair in favor of hope.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2020
Fact Sheet: Texas Natural Gas Pipeline Safety
Texas is currently experiencing unprecedented natural gas production, accounting for a quarter of the country’s natural gas output. However, without the necessary buildout of pipeline infrastructure, Texas’ abundant natural gas, and its many economic and environmental benefits, would go unrealized.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2020
Canadian Energy Weekly Round-Up: January 21
Here are the top news stories covering Canada’s energy landscape: Activists Push for Divestment at Canadian Universities, McGill Pushes Back Recent reports have found that not only does divesting from fossil fuels not decrease demand for hydrocarbons, but the effort could increase students’ tuition.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2020
Climate Serfdom Is No Future, It’s the Road to Destruction
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … Climate serfdom is what is being proposed by those who would make us solely dependent on renewables for our energy, but that’s what some want politically.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2020
RGGI Ploy Earns Trust-Funder Tom Wolf Title of “Rogue Governor”
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, an outspoken defender of common sense and reason on issues of energy and the environment calls out Tom Wolf as “rogue governor” on RGGI.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 20, 2020
Farm Show Livestock Exhibitors Get A Big Boost from Cabot
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation happily supported local farm livestock exhibitors at the auction held at the Pennsylvania Farm Show this year in Harrisburg.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 20, 2020
Josh Fox Loses It, Flails About and Retreats to Gas Heated WowHaus
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Josh Fox has gone off the rails. He has been yanked from the Public Theater for failing to follow their rules of conduct and is now back at his WowHaus.Shale Gas News – January 18, 2020
Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 18, 2020
Rail Makes Perfect Sense for Shipping LNG, Despite Some Slick Lawyers
Johnny Williams Bradford County Writer State governments need to get all aboard with LNG by rail if America is to continue its resurgence in energy and maintain its energy independence.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 18, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 18, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … 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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- January 17, 2020
Colorado House Speaker “Declines To Endorse New Ballot Measures” From Activist Group
“Keep It In the Ground” activist group Colorado Rising was apparently dealt a huge blow today when State House Speaker KC Becker refused to back its latest ballot initiative that would effectively ban oil and natural gas development, according to exclusive reporting from The Colorado Sun.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 17, 2020
Texas Oil and Gas Industry Breaks Historical Records, Fills State Coffers
Texas’ oil and natural gas industry paid an unprecedented $16.3 billion in state and local taxes and royalties in 2019, thanks to record high production.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 17, 2020
Oil Industry Sets New Record With $3.1 Billion In Revenue For 2019 New Mexico Budget
Public schools, highways, and healthcare in New Mexico can expect to see more funding in 2020, thanks to the oil and gas industry.Natural Gas Works and That’s No Fiction, However You Read It!
Richard Downey Unatego Area Landowners Association Natural gas is the solution. It works. Nothing advanced by the purveyors of supposed fossil fuel fiction changes that.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 17, 2020
Greta Thunberg Unaccountably Gives Herself A Swenglish Pass
Bob Tomaine Independent Journalist Greta Thunberg may be a most annoying child but she already knows how to avoid accountability and lord it over the rest of us as one of privilege.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2020
Global Warming Theology Is the Enemy of Climate Science and Reason
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Global warming theology is now consuming every bit of air in discussions of the matter of climate and politics leaving no place for real science or reason.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2020
Fill a Glass with Hope Campaign Provides Fresh Milk to Families in Need
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation was again a major contributor to the Fill a Glass With Hope campaign, one of five Keystone Sponsors to give $25,000 to the cause.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2020
Residents, Businesses Would Pay Big Under Bellingham’s Proposed Natural Gas Ban
“Keep It In the Ground” activists have begun to focus on limiting demand for natural gas in their efforts to stop its production.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2020
Group Intervenes in New York’s Exxon Case, Seeking Communications with Activists
A new motion to intervene filed in the New York attorney general’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil attempts to unseal documents that could pull back the curtain on “machinations” between the attorney general and Matt Pawa, a climate activist and plaintiffs’ attorney who has met with several state attorneys general to encourage them to sue ExxonMobil.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2020
BOMBSHELL: Rockefeller Family Fund Behind The “Pay Up Climate Polluters” Campaign
In 2017, the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) gave the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) over $1 million to launch an aggressive climate litigation campaign against America’s top energy producers, according to a new Energy In Depth analysis of New York state tax disclosures.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2020
Proved Natural Gas Reserves Grow by 14.2 Trillion Cubic Feet in PA!
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Pennsylvania natural gas reserves grew by an astounding 14.2 trillion cubic feet in 2018 demonstrating the amazing bounty of the shale revolution.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2020
Williams Companies Sponsors Farm Show Draft Horse Hitch and Ride
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … The Pennsylvania Farm Show is a great place to see draft horses at work and Williams Companies, the pipeline folks, sponsored a draft horse hitch and ride.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 14, 2020
PennEast Pipeline Still Under Attack from William Penn Foundation Shills
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) The William Penn Foundation has funded, to the tune of $6 million, three groups who are doing politics through legal harassment of the PennEast Pipeline.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 14, 2020
Pennsylvania Royalty Income to Landowners Well Over $8 Billion!
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Pennsylvania royalty income to landowners conservatively topped $8 billion between 2010 and 2017, according the Commonwealth’s Independent Fiscal Office.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 13, 2020
California’s Climate Bond Package is a “Golden” Alternative to Litigation
The California legislature is considering a new multi-billion-dollar climate bond to address future climate-change related disasters, according to reporting by ABC News.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 13, 2020
Canadian Energy Weekly Round-Up: January 13
Here are the top news stories covering Canada’s energy landscape: Energy Companies Lead Emissions Reductions Recently, Cenovus Energy announced its intentions to reach a 30 percent reduction on per-barrel greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the end of 2030.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 13, 2020
It’s Official: New York’s Case Against ExxonMobil Is Over
Well, that’s all she wrote, folks! A month after losing what was once called “the trial of the century,” the New York Attorney General has chosen not to appeal New York Supreme Court Justice Barry R.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 13, 2020
The Allegheny Defense Project: The Green Astroturf Politics of Elites
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … The Allegheny Defense Project is a front for elites who want to make wildernesses out of our rural areas.Shale Gas News – January 11, 2020
Bill desRosiers External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 12, 2020
Bill Graby: A Happy Warrior Who Fought New York Tyranny to the End
Victor Furman Upstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman talks about Sullivan County, New York, farmer Bill Graby who fought for fracking for years and whose future was sold out by Gov.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 11, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 11, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … 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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- January 10, 2020
Canada Needs More Pipeline Takeaway Capacity
As oil and natural gas production has increased across North America, so too has the need for greater pipeline capacity to transport these resources.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 10, 2020
Australia Fires Generate More Global Warming “Heat” Than Light
John Droz, Jr. Physicist & Citizen AdvocateAlliance for Wise Energy Decisions … John Droz assembles numerous informative articles on what’s really happening with Australia fires and it has next to nothing to do with global warming! One of the top stories globally has been the horrifically bad bushfires in Australia.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 10, 2020
Foreign Agents Funded by the Rockefellers Attack Our Energy Security
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … The Rockefeller Family Fund is funding foreign agents doing everything they can to undermine the energy security under the guise of fighting global warming.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 9, 2020
Natural Gas Consumers Score Win After Win After Win!
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … It just doesn’t get much better for natural gas consumers, as an Energy Information Administration post tells us.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 9, 2020
Natural Gas: Saving Lives While Helping the United States Reduce Emissions
The unprecedented switch to natural gas for power generation across the United States is not only reducing U.S. emissions, but also helping to save thousands of lives, according to new research from the Rhodium Group and University of California at San Diego.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 9, 2020
Natural Gas Does A Lot More Than Just Reduce CO2; It Saves Lives!
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … A new study says natural gas hasn’t just helped lower CO2 (if you care) but also, and much more importantly, saved 38,000 or so lives and done lots more.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 8, 2020
Mark Mathis Is 100% Correct: Too Much of Climate Science Isn’t
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … Mark Mathis of the Clear Energy Alliance has exposed the lack of science in far too much climate science, as Robert Bradley nicely explains below.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 8, 2020
Revealed: Foreign Billionaire Behind the Group Pushing American Cities to Sue Energy Producers
Foreign agents aren’t limiting their meddling to American elections – they’re also propping up the campaign to push American cities and counties to sue energy companies.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 8, 2020
New York Energy Bill from Cuomo to Consumers Could Top $47 Billion!
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … New York energy policy under Andrew Cuomo is based on intermittent solar and wind and it’s going to create a bill to consumers that could top $47 billion! On December 9, 2019 the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) released a report entitled Getting Greener: Cost-Effective Options for Achieving New York’s Greenhouse Gas Goals that addresses the impacts of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA).- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 7, 2020
Group Behind Failed Prop 112 Pushing For Similar Ballot Initiatives in 2020
After failing in every election since 2014 to ban fracking in Colorado, “Keep It In the Ground” activists are rolling out yet another set of new ballot measures that would serve to severely limit oil and natural gas production in the state and replay the contentious battle that took place during the most recent election cycle.State of American Energy 2020: America Embraces Global Energy Leadership
The state of American energy in 2020 is one of global leadership, according to American Petroleum Institute president and CEO Mike Sommers.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 7, 2020
We Are the Renewable Energy Resources We Seek
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … The fallacy behind the theory peak oil and supposed shortages of other supposedly finite energy sources is that the resources are the minerals and not us.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 7, 2020
RGGI Scam Proposed by Wolf Runs Into Building Trades Buzzsaw
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Pennsylvania’s trust-funder Governor, Tom Wolf, wants to sign the Commonwealth up for a RGGI scam Wolf to finance a slush fund but trade unions are onto him.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 6, 2020
Two Bats Out of Hell for Hollywood Environmentalist Types
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Hollywood celebrity environmentalist types just received two bats out of hell; one from Meat Loaf and the other from Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 6, 2020