- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 12, 2019
The Sierra Club Demonstrates It’s Really the Job Suppression Club
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … Few green organizations descend to the level of depravity when it comes to advancing their cause as the Sierra Club, which is really a job suppression club.Voters Agree: Expediting Energy Infrastructure Will Make America Cleaner, Stronger
More than three-quarters of Americans want to see critical energy infrastructure developed more quickly – a goal of President Trump’s recent executive orders – and just one in five voter supports the so-called Green New Deal, a new report found.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 12, 2019
Dem Oversight Chairman Criticizes Campaign to ‘Eliminate’ Energy Industry
As activists continue to push the misleading #ExxonKnew narrative, energy companies have continued to make strides on researching and combatting climate change, and Congress is taking notice.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 12, 2019
Even the Media Agrees: This Is No Way to Sell Climate Change
Stephen HeinsEnergy Consultant“The Word Merchant” … Michael Mann’s refusal to share data while attacking anyone with the courage to question his climate change conclusions is unsettling, even to journalists.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 12, 2019
Well, This Explains A Lot About Fractivist Energy Ignorance
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. The gullibility of so many urban voters on the subject of energy issues, their energy ignorance quotient, never ceases to amaze but it is easily explained.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 11, 2019
“New” Health Study Compendium Is Repackaging of the Same Old Discredited Fracking Studies
A literature review of studies that have unsuccessfully attempted to show fracking is negatively impacting health is getting some media attention based on its claim that air quality monitoring and modeling may not capture the full picture of oil and gas development impacts.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 11, 2019
Now, This Is Real Workforce Development. Thank Natural Gas!
Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … When it comes to workforce development, no one has done more than the natural gas industry.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 11, 2019
Executive Orders Seek to Streamline Pipeline Delays, Encourage Affordable Energy
Supporters of American energy hope the executive orders that President Trump signed directing the Environmental Protection Agency to revise certain policies will prevent abuse by states like New York who have used the environmental review process to unnecessarily block pipeline projects at the request of Keep-It-In-the-Ground activists.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 11, 2019
Trump’s Pipeline Executive Order Here! It’s VERY Good!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. President Donald Trump delivered some great news to pipeliners yesterday with his pipeline executive order, Andrew Cuomo says it’s overreach, so it’s good!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 10, 2019
Setting the Record Straight on Denver Post 90-Day “Loophole” Story
Anti-fossil fuel activists have been spinning a tale for months that oil and gas companies can spew “toxic air pollution” into the air for three months without consequence.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 10, 2019
Pipeliners Are the Real Deal, Real Americans Producing for All of Us
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. I had an opportunity a few minutes ago to speak to Pipeliners Union 798 at their annual Steward School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 10, 2019
New Jersey Energy Prices Will Soar Without Pipelines
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. New Jersey must not follow New York in stopping pipelines to secure the rewards of green political correctness.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 9, 2019
What Was West Virginia’s Governor Thinking? Coal?
Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC West Virginia’s Governor vetoed a strong bipartisan supported bill to plug up nearly 4000 abandoned oil and natural gas wells.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 9, 2019
Oil & Gas Industry Moves to Innovate Away CO2: What Will Fractivists Do?
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Green energy fans proclaim renewables are necessary to reduce CO2 emissions and will soon replace gas but the oil and gas industry keeps innovating CO2 away.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 8, 2019
Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps Has “Second Thoughts” on Climate Lawsuit
The mayor of the city leading the push for municipalities in British Columbia (BC) to file a class action lawsuit against energy companies for climate damages recently announced that she no longer believes climate lawsuits are the best way to deal with climate change.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 8, 2019
Trump Going to Houston to Announce Pipeline Executive Order!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. President Donald Trump is going to Houston on Wednesday and will announce the pipeline executive order he’s issuing.Shale Gas News – April 6, 2019
Bill desRosiersExternal 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 gas storage, U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 8, 2019
Utica Shale Brings $70 Billion of Investment to Ohio and There’s More
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. The Utica Shale has brought $70 billion of investment to Ohio and there’s more to be had.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 7, 2019
Germany Boxed In, Turns to Russian Gas, But It Should Buy Our LNG
... … … There’s no excuse for what Germany has done to itself. It is now boxed in, with but two alternatives; Russian gas or our LNG.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 7, 2019
DC Circuit Court of Appeals Slams New York Public Service Commission
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. First, FERC and now the D.C. Court of Appeals. Cuomo’s New York and his Public Service Commission are being slapped left and right by those onto his game.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 6, 2019
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania Just Keeps Producing Natural Gas for the Rest
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Some states just can’t get their energy acts together. Plagued by political correctness, urban states tilt at windmills while Pennsylvania heats their homes.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 6, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – April 6, 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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- April 5, 2019
Andrew Cuomo’s PSC Proposes Heat Pumps and Solar: It Won’t Work
Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … ConEd and Cuomo’s PSC say some combination of solar, other renewables and heat pumps can substitute for the gas Cuomo keeps stopping at the border.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 5, 2019
Cuomo’s DEC Goes Wacko, Threatens FERC Over Constitution Pipeline
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … The New York State DEC has obviously been instructed by Andrew Cuomo to keep the game going against the Constitution Pipeline by throwing a Hail Mary pass.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 4, 2019
Toronto Councilor’s Climate Litigation Motion Threatens Canadian “National Unity”
Climate litigation in Canada is hitting more roadblocks after Mike Layton, a member of the Toronto city council, introduced a motion that asks the city to track costs related to climate change and study legal strategies to “recover costs” from energy companies.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 4, 2019
CONFIRMED! A Trump Pipeline Executive Order Is Coming!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. President Donald Trump’s economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, has confirmed Trump pipeline executive order is, in fact, coming soon, which is great news indeed!Upstate New York Needs Affordable Energy; It Needs Natural Gas
Richard DowneyUnatego Area Landowners Association Richard Downey says Upstate New York, and Downstate as well, desperately needs more affordable energy, which means natural gas, not more renewable energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 3, 2019
Indian Point Provides Natural Gas Lesson for Anyone Paying Attention
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The foolish idea the Indian Point nuclear station can be replaced by a bunch of solar farms offering expensive intermittent energy is exposed as a fraud.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 3, 2019
“Boulder Bill” Heads to Colorado Governor’s Desk
The Colorado General Assembly passed its contentious overhaul of state oil and gas regulations today, sending it to Governor Jared Polis’ desk for final signature.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 3, 2019
What Can Be Done About Water Quality Certification?
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Any remaining semblance of reasonableness connected with state water quality certification has been destroyed by Andrew Cuomo.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 3, 2019
As Energy Exports Rapidly Increase, U.S. Energy Dominance Arrives
... … … U.S. energy exports are growing in a big way and are already leading to U.S. energy dominance, a result thought impossible by many until the shale revolution.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 2, 2019
Federal Judge Deals Major Blow to “Constitutionally Suspect” CELDF “Rights of Nature” Initiatives
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund founder Thomas Linzey has made it clear that he has no issue with bankrupting towns to push his anti-energy “Rights of Nature” agenda.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 2, 2019
The Permian Basin Is Now the Highest Producing Oilfield in the World
Just two months after the New York Times reported that Texas and New Mexico’s Permian Basin could surpass Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar oilfield to become the highest producing oilfield in the world in the next three years, data released this week provided a new take: It already did.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 2, 2019
Rockefeller Gang Doing Their Best to Kill the NESE Project
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. The Rockefeller gang, in the guise of 350.org and its affiliates is trying hard to kill the NESE project by playing Andrew Cuomo.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 1, 2019
New Jersey’s Renewable Mandates Will Send Electric Bills to the Moon
... … … New Jersey’s already high electric bills are about to get higher. As the Governor proposes more renewables and subsidies, ratepayers will foot the bill.Don’t Be Fooled: Gas Cuts Emissions Nearly 13:1 Compared to Solar/Wind
K.J. RodgersCrownsville, Maryland …. …. K.J. Rodgers writes to Maryland Public Service Commission noting conversions of coal power plants to gas have reduced emissions 13 to 1 versus renewables.Shale Gas News – March 30, 2019
Bill desRosiersExternal 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, offshore drilling, the Shell ethane pipeline and much more last week.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 31, 2019
Some Clear Energy Common Sense on “Clean Energy”
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Mark Mathis produces yet another excellent video from the Clear Energy Alliance and dispenses with the “clean energy” myth at the heart of that huge scam.Dimock Provocateur Bill Huston Admits He Never Saw What He Claimed
Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman was in court Friday for another chapter of the Pigs to Rigs case, where Bill Huston was forced to admit he never saw dumping he claimed he had.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 30, 2019
Absent Andy Dinniman Does Stupid Anti-Pipeline Stunt for Attention
Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Absent Andy Dinniman is at it again, pushing a bill to suspend Pennsylvania PUC and DEP regulation of natural gas liquid pipelines.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 30, 2019
Susquehanna County Emergency Responders Talk Safety
Rick HidukManaging Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … Officers from 10 Western Susquehanna County fire companies attended a dinner and safety discussion hosted by Cabot Oil & Gas on March 20.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 30, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – March 30, 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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- March 29, 2019
Wind and Solar Tax Credits; Green Rent Seeking Unleashed
... … … Wind and solar tax credits are horribly distorting our energy markets and need to be reined in before we end up like Germany with quadrupled electric rates.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 29, 2019
West Virginia Governor Vetoes Bill To Plug State’s Orphaned and Abandoned Oil, Natural Gas Wells
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice vetoed legislation this week that would have provided needed funding to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection for plugging the state’s more than 4,000 orphaned and abandoned oil and natural gas wells.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 29, 2019
Ahead of Interior Confirmation Hearing, CNN Omits Key Facts on Federal Oil and Gas Leasing
This week, CNN ran a piece attempting to influence the confirmation hearing of acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt. The report lobbed criticism at the Bureau of Land Management for approving oil and gas permits during January’s government shutdown – framing it as the oil and gas sector skirting the effects of the shutdown while the broader economy lost billions of dollars.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 29, 2019
Lawless Bullies Gear Up to Fight Constitution Pipeline (Again)
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) … The Delaware Povertykeeper and other hired gentry class bullies are preparing to fight the Consitution Pipeline again as prospects for FERC approval rise.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 29, 2019
Oil and Gas and STEM Pioneers Who Happened to Be Women
Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … Science, technology, engineering and math, four disciplines commonly known as STEM capabilities are the essence of oil and gas and women have been pioneers.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 28, 2019
New Reports Offer Solutions to Protect Against “Recent Surge” of Climate Liability Lawsuits
The U.S. Chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) recently released two reports examining the impacts of climate liability lawsuits in the United States. Waking- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 28, 2019
IEA: Natural Gas Prevented More Significant Rise in Global Energy-Related CO2 Emissions in 2018
The switch to natural gas for electricity generation prevented 95 million tons of CO2 emissions in 2018, according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 28, 2019
Another State, Another Opportunity to Support the NESE Pipeline Project
Connie MellinNatural Gas NOW“PAShaleAdvocate” There is still time to support the very important NESE pipeline project by submitting your comments to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 28, 2019
Extremist Extinction Rebellion Group Deserves Extinction
Johnny WilliamsBradford County Writer Johnny Williams digs into a wacky group known as Extinction Rebellion that can’t seem to face the truth: that natural gas lowers carbon emissions.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 28, 2019
So, What Exactly Was This Mariner East Meeting About? Politics?
Kurt KnausSpokesmanPennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … Chester and Delaware County politicians held a Mariner East meeting the other day, the only purpose of which seems to have been enhancing their resumes.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 27, 2019
SB 181 Pushes Through Colorado House Despite Growing Concerns
The ample warnings about the potential consequences of SB 181 have done nothing to slow its push through the Colorado General Assembly.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 27, 2019
AGs Dodge Transparency Laws while Seeking the ‘Truth’ on Climate Issues
In recent years, attorneys general in the District of Columbia, New York, Maryland and a handful of other states have sought to burnish their climate credentials by pursuing investigations and litigation against oil companies.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 27, 2019
The Green New Deal: Elite Tribal Identity and Piety for the Chic and Woke
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Senator Mike Lee gives a silly speech illustrating the sheer fantasy of the Green New Deal and nails what it’s all about; virtue signaling by chic elites.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 27, 2019
Yet Another “Golden Year for Gas” Says International Energy Agency
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The head of the International Energy Agency has just declared 2018 was another “golden year of gas” worldwide with gas representing almost half of demand.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 27, 2019
American NGO Community Insures Nothing Happens in Canada
Stephen HeinsEnergy Consultant“The Word Merchant” … The American NGO community, financed by the likes of the Rockefeller family, is making difficult for ordinary Canadians, insuring nothing ever gets built.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 27, 2019
Fallout from Keep It in the Ground Tests Falls on New York Supporters
Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) The Con Ed moratorium on new gas connections is creating fallout from the Keep It in the Ground movement that normally supportive New Yorkers don’t like.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 26, 2019